Bathroom Metallic Epoxy Floor in Easley, SC

A Failed Coating Rescue, Rebuilt With a New-Generation Polyaspartic System

A homeowner in Easley, South Carolina called Greenville Epoxy Flooring after another contractor's bathroom floor coating never cured. A gray moisture-barrier epoxy had been applied over the subfloor and left behind — still puddled and tacky by the time anyone called for help, with nothing to do but start over from the substrate up.

The crew scraped up every bit of the failed material they could lift, then flooded the floor with xylene to break down the leftover residue before pulling it off with scrapers. From there, a swing buffer fitted with stripper pads and sanding screens went to work in repeated passes, continuing until the screens came up clean and only fine wood residue remained. Edges got knocked back by hand to finish the strip-down. With a sound substrate finally in hand, the decision was made to move away from standard epoxy entirely and install a newer low-odor polyaspartic metallic system instead — the same slow-cure, high-flow chemistry behind our metallic floors generally, but with a longer working window (roughly 45 minutes to an hour) and a 12-hour cure time.

The homeowner noticed the difference immediately: a faintly minty smell during application, instead of the xylene fumes that had filled the house all morning during the strip-out. If you're dealing with a coating job — new or already failed — that needs to be done right the first time, call (864) 252-1101.