A metallic floor with no twin anywhere in Dudley.
The showcase work. Pigment moves while the resin cures and Beto Ponce sets the pattern by hand, so no two floors come out the same.
Insured and bonded · 5 years · every metallic pattern set by Beto himself
Quote on a metallic pour
Photos of the room and a few colors you like help most.
The floors people call Beto about.
Metallic is the work that looks like the person who poured it.
Beto Ponce has his own style on these floors, and he keeps pushing it. He tries new color pairings and new ways of working the pigment across a room, and it shows. That artistic streak is the reason a lot of people pick Alpha Resin, and it is why metallic pours are the showcase of everything we do.
He also does the pour himself, start to finish. A metallic floor cannot be handed off halfway, because the pattern is being decided while the resin is wet. The person who walks your slab and gives you the quote is the one kneeling in the room on pour day, working the color.
The grinders and dust extraction that come off the trailer on day one belong to us, not a rental counter. That counts on a metallic job more than most, because nobody is hurrying the grind so a machine can go back by closing time. The slab gets taken down to clean concrete and every crack gets filled, however long that runs, and the pour waits for it.
Quality and consistency still matter on the showpiece. The prep underneath a metallic floor is the same careful grind as every other floor we do.
About twenty minutes to get the pattern right.
Pour day has one stretch nobody gets to redo.
Metallic resin carries pigment that keeps moving while the resin starts to cure. For as long as the floor stays workable, that movement is where the pattern gets made: where the lighter color pools, where the dark veins run, and how the whole room flows toward the door.
Once that window closes, the pattern is locked in for good. That is why no two metallic floors come out the same. It is also why every bit of prep has to be finished before the first bucket is mixed. Nobody wants to be chasing a crack while the pigment is already on the move.
July and October are different pours.
Scheduling matters on every floor. On metallic it matters most.
Resin cures by chemical reaction, and that reaction runs faster when it is hot. A July pour in an uninsulated Dudley garage gives less working time than the same pour in October. On a chip floor that is manageable. On metallic, less working time means less time to set the pattern while the resin is still wet.
So we plan around the heat instead of fighting it. Spring and fall book up first, because mild weather gives the widest working window and those are the months everybody wants. Summer pours still happen, scheduled early in the day. Winter works as long as the slab is warm enough, and we will move a date before we pour into conditions that would hurt the finish.
The walk is where the date gets picked. Whether a Dudley garage is insulated, and how much afternoon sun lands on the slab, both change how fast the resin kicks, so Beto asks about both before he talks about calendars. You get the quote that same day, and it holds once the work starts.
Moisture in the slab gets tested before we quote, for reasons the concrete grinding page lays out.
Living on a mirror finish.
A metallic floor throws back every light in the room, and every window and door frame along with it.
That gloss is slick when wet, the same as polished concrete. For a garage where a car brings rain in, or any room by an outside door, we broadcast an aggregate into the topcoat so it grips. It softens the mirror a little and keeps people on their feet. Say so on the walk and we will spec it.
A gloss floor also shows dust sooner than a chip floor does. If the garage door stays open all day, flake may suit that room better, and we will tell you so. One good split is metallic in the room you show off and flake in the working garage. The garage page covers how that job runs.
A properly prepped residential floor is a ten to fifteen year surface. The ones that fail early almost always failed at prep, which is why the grind comes first on every pour. You can read about that step on the concrete grinding page.
Everything else we pour around Dudley.
Dudley sits a short drive from Goldsboro, where we are based. It sits in Wayne County, and most weeks the trailer never leaves the county line.
Insured and bonded, 5 years in. Browse the gallery to see more metallic color combinations, or send photos of the slab and tell us which colors you keep coming back to.
Come with a room in mind more than a finished picture. Tell us the wall color, where the windows are, and what the space gets used for. Beto can work from that toward pairings that move well in that light. Bright window light and dark walls pull the same colors in completely different directions. That back and forth before pour day is part of the job.
What people ask before a metallic pour
Can I pick the exact pattern ahead of time?
You pick the colors and the general look. The exact pattern only exists once the pigment has moved through the curing resin, so even two floors poured from the same buckets in the same colors will come out different.
Is a metallic floor slippery?
Only when it is wet, and aggregate in the topcoat handles that. The trade is looks, because the grit takes some depth out of the mirror. You can split it within one house: full gloss in a dry room inside, grit only where water comes in.
Can a metallic floor go over an old coating?
Not over it. The old coating comes off in the grind, down to bare concrete, so the new resin bonds to the slab and not to whatever was on it before. A coating that has already started peeling adds time to day one, and that is accounted for when we walk the slab.
Can a metallic floor go in a garage?
Yes. It runs on the same two-day schedule as any garage floor, with the grind on day one and the pour on day two, and vehicles wait until day three or four. Most busy bays get aggregate in the topcoat so the floor grips when the car brings rain in.
Who does the pour?
Beto Ponce, the owner. The number you call to talk about colors is the one he picks up on the job, so questions about pairings go straight to the person who will be kneeling in the resin on pour day.
What happens to the concrete before the color goes down?
The slab gets diamond ground to clean, open concrete, and the cracks and pits the grind exposes get chased out and filled. A mirror gloss shows every flaw underneath it, so on metallic that prep has to be finished before the first bucket gets mixed.
Got colors in mind?
Send a photo of the room and the colors you keep coming back to. A picture of a floor you like helps too.
Beto will tell you what he is seeing, then come look at it in person. You get a quote the day he walks the slab. If you would rather talk color first, call and he picks up. More finished metallic floors are in the gallery.
(919) 440-1333