What the work is
A metallic floor is made, not applied. The installer moves pigment through a clear resin while it is liquid, and the pattern that results is the floor. It cannot be undone, matched to a sample exactly, or repeated.
That is worth saying plainly because it is the one finish where expectation and outcome part company. A sample board shows the palette and the general character. It does not show your floor. If you need to know exactly what you are getting before it is down, this is the wrong finish and flake is the right one.
It is also the least forgiving finish underfoot: it is smooth, so it is the most slippery of these when wet, and it shows scratches. Indoors, away from water, that is usually fine. On a pool deck it is not, and we will not put it there.
We would rather talk you out of this than install one you are unhappy with, because there is no version of fixing it that is not doing it again.
What is included
- A sample board in the palette you have chosen, before anything is committed
- Pigmented metallic resin over a prepared, tested slab
- Clear top coat
- A written note of what is and is not predictable about the result
What is not
- Matching a specific pattern, from a photograph or from another floor
- Redoing a section because the pattern landed differently there. The whole floor is the unit
- Metallic on a pool deck or any wet exterior surface. We will decline that one
What to ask anyone quoting this, us included
- Can I see a sample board in this palette, made by the person who will do my floor?
- What happens if I do not like the pattern?
- Is this appropriate for where I want it, or are you just selling it?