Residential Bathroom Metallic Epoxy Floor in Easley, SC

Failed Floor Rescue — From Uncured Epoxy to a Custom Metallic Finish

Zachary Daniel Concrete was called into a home in Easley, South Carolina to rescue a bathroom floor that another contractor had walked away from. The subfloor had been coated with a gray moisture-barrier epoxy that never cured — the surface was still puddled and tacky when the homeowner reached out to ZDC.

The crew started by scraping up every bit of failed material they could lift, then flooded the floor with xylene to break down the residue and pulled it off with scrapers. From there they moved to a swing buffer fitted with stripper pads and sanding screens, working in passes until the screens came up clean and only fine wood residue was left behind. Edges were knocked back by hand. With the substrate finally sound, Zach made the call to switch from epoxy to a brand-new low-odor polyaspartic for both the base coat and the metallic top layer — the same family of slow-cure, high-flow products ZDC uses for its metallic epoxy floors, but with about 45 minutes to an hour of working time and a 12-hour cure window.

It was Zach's first job with the new polyaspartic on a metallic floor, and the bonus for the homeowner was a faintly minty smell during application instead of the xylene fumes that had been hanging in the house all morning. Call Zach at (864) 770-8608 if you have a coating job — new or failed — that needs to be done right.