Metallic Epoxy Floors in Tigard, OR

Start with the hill. Garages on Bull Mountain from the 90s and 2000s were built with the slope, so the floor often splits or falls toward the door. A wet metallic runs downhill, and the pattern on a sloped floor has to be shaped with that in mind rather than fought. Then River Terrace, where everything was poured after 2015 and is flat but still drying. Then Metzger, where the slabs are 40 years old with paint and cracks.

We would rather explain the three than pretend Tigard is one town. The hill gets a slope plan and a drain edge. The new construction gets a curing-compound grind and a moisture probe, and sometimes a wait. Metzger and Summerlake get paint removal, crack leveling, and usually a primer. All three end with the same clear pigment pour and the same week of cure before parking.

The River, the Hill, and Moisture Under a Clear Floor

The Tualatin River keeps the low neighborhoods around Cook Park and Durham damp through winter, and the top of Bull Mountain takes more wind and rain than the flats. Either way, moisture reaches the underside of the slab. A clear coating over a slab that is venting vapor develops a milky fog that cannot be polished out. So every Tigard floor gets metered, and the ones that read high get a mitigating primer, which near the river is most of them.

The finish is a 100% solids clear epoxy carrying metallic pigment that we pull by hand into a pattern no one can repeat, with chemical-resistant polyaspartic on top and a 40-to-60-mil build. It runs higher than flake since the concrete has to be ground and leveled to where a clear coat looks deliberate, the pour eats two or three days of skilled work, and the cure is longer. Sloped hill garages add to that.

Our Metallic Epoxy Floors System

Materials: Metallic pigment, 100% solids clear epoxy, polyaspartic topcoat
Thickness: 40-60 mils
Install time: 2-3 days
Walk on it: 1-2 days after
Park on it: about a week after
Warranty: 15 years

Glass-smooth finish. High-gloss topcoat. High-traffic rated.

Bull Mountain Slopes, River Terrace Concrete, and Metzger Paint

On Bull Mountain the garage floor is often split by a step or falls to a drain at the low corner, and pigment will follow that fall while it is wet. We lay the pattern out to follow the fall and keep the drain edge thin and clean. River Terrace slabs from 2015 to 2024 are flat and smooth, the easiest metallic surface in town, but they carry curing compound and enough moisture in the first two years to fail the probe. Metzger and Summerlake slabs from the 1970s to 90s have gray paint and joint cracks that must be ground out and leveled flush before a clear coat makes sense. About 40 minutes down I-5, so the three site days run together in one week.

Tigard Neighborhoods We Cover

Bull Mountain, Summerlake, Metzger, River Terrace, Cook Park, Durham

Metallic Pricing for Tigard's Three Kinds of Garage

Flat River Terrace two-car garages near 450 square feet price from $4,050 to $7,200 at our $9 to $16 rate and sit near the bottom unless a primer is needed. Sloped Bull Mountain three-car garages around 650 square feet come in between $5,850 and $10,400, upper half for the slope work. A 400-square-foot Metzger garage with paint and cracks spans $3,600 through $6,400 and lands high for the prep. Measured before quoting.

Frequently Asked Questions

Our Bull Mountain garage floor falls toward a drain. Does metallic still work?

It does, if the pour is planned for it. Wet pigment moves downhill, so we shape the pattern along the fall and keep the material thin at the drain so it stays functional. It takes more hands and more time than a flat pour, and the price reflects that. The result usually has a direction to it that owners like.

The River Terrace house is a year old. Should we wait before doing the floor?

Probably. Year-old concrete usually reads high on the probe, and vapor under a clear metallic leaves a haze that stays. We meter it anyway because some slabs dry faster. If it is over the limit, a mitigating primer or a late-summer date are the options, and we tell you which we would choose.

My Metzger slab has 40-year-old gray paint on it. How much of it has to come off?

All of it, including the stain it left in the concrete. Under a clear coating a ghost of old paint shows as a discolored patch. We grind past it into clean aggregate and inspect under a work light. It is more grinding than a flake job needs and it is the reason old Metzger garages sit higher in the price range.

Will the metallic pattern look the same as the sample board you bring?

The colors will; the pattern will not. Every floor is shaped by hand on your concrete and comes out differently, which is the point. The boards show you the pigments and roughly how much movement to expect. We talk through how bold or subtle you want it before the pour.

How does a 40-minute drive affect a three-day install in Tigard?

We book the days back to back so the crew is on site three days straight: grind and prime, pour, topcoat. After that the floor is ready for shoes in a day or two, and the car waits about a week. No travel charge; we just ask for a little flexibility on which week.

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