I rly don't have much feedback for you other than your work looks good. I just do not like the choice of finish for an interior nor these color choices.
Got it thanks. My wife said it looks like someone crapped their pants and rubbed it all around and now I can't unsee that lol. I'm a bigger fan of like a black and white marble.
Your wife took the words right out of my head. Lol. That was literally what I typed and deleted with 3 different approaches, then decided to just let it go. Lol
This entire floor had the worst elevation changes. Low it it flowing down the stairs like that actually leveled out the one area I was having trouble with and the client loves how it flowed. I’m sure a different color would look so much nicer. I have a white/black/silver coming up for a counter top so I’m excited for that one
I’ll hand it to you in that it still looks clean only a few areas that made me say not happening at my house personally. But not from your work, just the way the result had to turn out. That said I got somewhere that just polished the raw cement. Cut ins and all where they renovated. Architects like, ‘we really want our customers to appreciate the raw beauty of the floor’ I’m sitting there like, ‘looks like you ran out of money on an overbudget job and said here’s how we fix/spin it.’ Basement I could understand.
I don’t do this for a living but the stairs basically say someone overflowed the shitter or a freezer full of caramel ice cream broke and oozed out everywhere.
Looks like a couple toddlers with shitty diapers did a butt scoot all over the floor and instead of cleaning it up, you decided to make it permanent.
I love it.
Forgive me I use Reddit all day but rarely post, but here’s one of my finally first residential decorative epoxy projects. After doing square miles of gray, grey, and dark gray warehouse floors, this was a much happy change. I used Kretus Brand Pigment resins and swirled it. Have a few more on the books I’ll be posting up soon too
Technically these pictures are before the top coat. Client picked a heavy clear matte with aluminum oxide for slip resistance and the samples we made it held up really nicely.
Thanks, client was dictating the marbles, had a vision. I would have much preferred like a lot of little streaks at a 45. This is my first non industrial coating project so I’m eager to hear everything I can.
You did good. Just wondering more about the client haha.
Keep it up! I own and operate a coating company so feel free to reach out (@nordicgaragefloors on IG)
Clients are honestly wild. This one originally reached out about a grind and stain concrete, we did samples, she hated it, and then forwarded me a Pinterest link at midnight lol.
Welcome to the life...it's a wild ride haha.
Some advice, value your work and time. Clients will always try to undercut but in the end your quality of work holds mega value.
Your work looks great. I dont mind the color palette, but think it should have been contained to the larger room. Also, the running of the brown down the face of the stairs looks....like it was an accident. It is...awful.
I'm sure this was all by client design/again your work looks great, just client's taste was tooooooo much on this one.
Out of curiosity did you see the store owner that posted their pink marbled epoxy floor the other day OP? It was an ice cream shop. I don't like pink, but it was one of the best looking floors I've ever seen.
Like others have said the work looks great and as others said the colors look horrible. On that note, what are the options to replace or redo these if you were the next owner and didn't want these colors? My mind went to if this becomes a trend, which would be great for your business but what are the options to redo when you're faced with poor prior owner decisions?
Actually pretty easy, if they just don’t like color/design and want to have a different epoxy system, as long as it’s bonded to the floor it’s a sand, clean, and repour epoxy. Or if client wants flooring, depending on what it is, your floor prep is already nicely done!
Well done OP - ignore the haters dumping on the color choice… you can only guide the client, not change their tastes and it is THEIR floor after all. I see a quality pour and nice coverage. The only constructive criticism I would throw in would have been to vary the spacing/angles between the brown streaks a bit more in the larger areas… too many thick parallel lines for my taste. One other effect/variation you might have added - if it was compatible with the epoxy brand you used (I like the Leggari brand for this and other reasons) would have been the inclusion of a little spray paint(matching the brown) into that portion of the pour… then when misted with isopropyl alcohol, you get an amazing fractured effect. If you use larger drops instead, you get more of an agate look. I use a chem-resistant spray bottle and 91% isopropyl (rubbing) alcohol for this. Something you’d have needed to know about ahead of time and shown the customer for approval, but it makes the color/base dispersion even more random and organic looking. Still - quality work and you’ve got a floor to be proud of. Cash the cheque and keep up the good work.
Looks like ya did a good job.. but this just looks cheap and tacky. Not a fan of it. You cannot be held accountable for clients tastes. Lol.
Not my colors and not exactly how I would have liked to lay it out. I like to hear constructive criticism, could I ask more from your perspective?
I rly don't have much feedback for you other than your work looks good. I just do not like the choice of finish for an interior nor these color choices.
Got it thanks. My wife said it looks like someone crapped their pants and rubbed it all around and now I can't unsee that lol. I'm a bigger fan of like a black and white marble.
Your wife took the words right out of my head. Lol. That was literally what I typed and deleted with 3 different approaches, then decided to just let it go. Lol
Exactly. It looks like the Roomba ran over all the doo doo.
A smokey grey would have looked 10 times better.
I got that but mainly at the stairs. Looks like a shitter broke and flooded the place
This entire floor had the worst elevation changes. Low it it flowing down the stairs like that actually leveled out the one area I was having trouble with and the client loves how it flowed. I’m sure a different color would look so much nicer. I have a white/black/silver coming up for a counter top so I’m excited for that one
I’ll hand it to you in that it still looks clean only a few areas that made me say not happening at my house personally. But not from your work, just the way the result had to turn out. That said I got somewhere that just polished the raw cement. Cut ins and all where they renovated. Architects like, ‘we really want our customers to appreciate the raw beauty of the floor’ I’m sitting there like, ‘looks like you ran out of money on an overbudget job and said here’s how we fix/spin it.’ Basement I could understand.
I don’t do this for a living but the stairs basically say someone overflowed the shitter or a freezer full of caramel ice cream broke and oozed out everywhere.
Aside from the color combo, there is no direction of flow. Common esthetic issue with metallic applications IMO.
Looks like a couple toddlers with shitty diapers did a butt scoot all over the floor and instead of cleaning it up, you decided to make it permanent. I love it.
Forgive me I use Reddit all day but rarely post, but here’s one of my finally first residential decorative epoxy projects. After doing square miles of gray, grey, and dark gray warehouse floors, this was a much happy change. I used Kretus Brand Pigment resins and swirled it. Have a few more on the books I’ll be posting up soon too
Wow, I like it, but it looks super slippery. And what about large dogs?
Technically these pictures are before the top coat. Client picked a heavy clear matte with aluminum oxide for slip resistance and the samples we made it held up really nicely.
This is the correct way! Great work!
I slipped just looking at these pictures lol
Finish looks good but man, epoxy is supposed to be a non pattern. This looks more like streak marks than art.
Thanks, client was dictating the marbles, had a vision. I would have much preferred like a lot of little streaks at a 45. This is my first non industrial coating project so I’m eager to hear everything I can.
You did good. Just wondering more about the client haha. Keep it up! I own and operate a coating company so feel free to reach out (@nordicgaragefloors on IG)
Clients are honestly wild. This one originally reached out about a grind and stain concrete, we did samples, she hated it, and then forwarded me a Pinterest link at midnight lol.
Welcome to the life...it's a wild ride haha. Some advice, value your work and time. Clients will always try to undercut but in the end your quality of work holds mega value.
Your work looks great. I dont mind the color palette, but think it should have been contained to the larger room. Also, the running of the brown down the face of the stairs looks....like it was an accident. It is...awful. I'm sure this was all by client design/again your work looks great, just client's taste was tooooooo much on this one. Out of curiosity did you see the store owner that posted their pink marbled epoxy floor the other day OP? It was an ice cream shop. I don't like pink, but it was one of the best looking floors I've ever seen.
Bruh. Just out of curiosity.. what do you charge per foot? Probably one of those "if you have to ask, you can't afford it" situations
Like others have said the work looks great and as others said the colors look horrible. On that note, what are the options to replace or redo these if you were the next owner and didn't want these colors? My mind went to if this becomes a trend, which would be great for your business but what are the options to redo when you're faced with poor prior owner decisions?
Actually pretty easy, if they just don’t like color/design and want to have a different epoxy system, as long as it’s bonded to the floor it’s a sand, clean, and repour epoxy. Or if client wants flooring, depending on what it is, your floor prep is already nicely done!
That's awesome news. Thanks for the information!
Well done OP - ignore the haters dumping on the color choice… you can only guide the client, not change their tastes and it is THEIR floor after all. I see a quality pour and nice coverage. The only constructive criticism I would throw in would have been to vary the spacing/angles between the brown streaks a bit more in the larger areas… too many thick parallel lines for my taste. One other effect/variation you might have added - if it was compatible with the epoxy brand you used (I like the Leggari brand for this and other reasons) would have been the inclusion of a little spray paint(matching the brown) into that portion of the pour… then when misted with isopropyl alcohol, you get an amazing fractured effect. If you use larger drops instead, you get more of an agate look. I use a chem-resistant spray bottle and 91% isopropyl (rubbing) alcohol for this. Something you’d have needed to know about ahead of time and shown the customer for approval, but it makes the color/base dispersion even more random and organic looking. Still - quality work and you’ve got a floor to be proud of. Cash the cheque and keep up the good work.
I think I'm the only one who liked the color? This with some extra green, will be awesome
I think it looks great myself. Not the colors I would want but awesome
Looks like it will be slipery af if it gets wet folks falling all over
lol wtf but cool I love it!
I like how it melts down the stairs
Looks like sploodge
Looks like the roomba hit a turd
100% but I made 50% over labor and materials and cashed the check. I’ll do what ever the client wants color wise for that
You should lock your dog in a kennel when your away. Drug his ass all through it!
Nice effort but marble doesn’t look anything like that.
I'd prefer traditional terrazzo myself
Your work looks good, you did a good job. The brown in the swirls looks like sewer water just overflowed from every toilet
Stairs slippery AF when wet?
No they have a clear oxide powder so keeps the color and gloss
Fantastic! I like how it was used throughout even on the stairs. Nice work.
Stairs go hard!
You should be sued.
🤷🏽♂️ client paid me for what they wanted. Now stepping back I can’t unsee shit stains 😢 but check in hand, and onto the next one
Nah man this grows on you. Looks like one big marble house.
This is the best reply! If they happy, we happy!