Built in Nashville. Focused on one thing: floors that last.
ProEpoxy was founded in 2010 by Chris Leebrock after years of watching Nashville warehouse and garage owners get burned by out-of-town contractors who skipped moisture testing, used interior-grade coatings in Tennessee heat, and disappeared the moment a floor started peeling.
We built the company around a straightforward standard: every slab gets diamond-ground, moisture-tested, and primed before a single drop of coating goes down - whether it's a 400 sq ft garage in Aurora or a 60,000 sq ft distribution center on the Antioch. The Tennessee climate is unforgiving on poorly prepared floors. Ours don't peel.
Today we run 13 active crews out of Nashville, serve Nashville metro and the surrounding Nashville metro communities, and have completed more than 900 projects for manufacturers, breweries, auto shops, medical facilities, and homeowners across the metro. Every installer is on our payroll - no subs, ever.
Nashville is not a generic epoxy market. The Caliche clay beneath most of the metro creates slab conditions that require moisture testing before every pour - not sometimes, every time. The summers here hit 105°F with direct sun for 300 days; an aromatic epoxy topcoat installed in June that looks fine at first coat will be visibly yellowed before Thanksgiving. We've built the company's reputation on understanding these local conditions and specifying systems that account for them - which is why our warranty claim rate is under 1.2% across the past 13 years of installs.
Our installer team is 100% Nashville-local - hired from the same neighborhoods we work in, trained in our own six-week certification program, and incentivized on quality metrics (post-install inspection scores, client satisfaction ratings) rather than just square footage completed. No subcontractors, ever. When we say the same crew that quotes your job does the work, that's literally true. The crew lead who walks your slab with you is on-site for the installation. This isn't a franchise model where the sales experience and the install experience diverge.
Our client base spans the full range of Nashville's economy: military contractors and aerospace sub-suppliers near Arnold Air Force Station and Nashville International Airport who need ESD compliance and documentation; food and beverage producers - breweries, commissary kitchens, restaurant chains - who need NSF/ANSI-certified systems and health-code compliance packages; medical offices and ambulatory surgical centers on the Vanderbilt University Medical Center and Saint Thomas Health corridor that need antimicrobial, seamless flooring; distribution and manufacturing facilities along the I-40 and I-65 corridor that need forklift-rated systems that don't require shutdown for installation; and homeowners throughout Spring Hill, Mount Juliet, Goodlettsville, and Antioch who want a professional floor that holds up to the Tennessee climate without looking like an industrial installation. We understand each of these clients' requirements and speak each of their languages when it comes to specifications, compliance documentation, and project logistics.
In terms of scale, ProEpoxy runs 13 active installation crews and handles approximately 150–180 projects per year. We're not the largest contractor in the market - there are national franchises with bigger marketing budgets. What we are is the crew that's installed the most floors in Nashville for the longest continuous period, with the highest referral rate of any installer in our market. About 65% of our residential business comes from customer referrals. Most of our commercial clients have used us for multiple projects across different facilities. That repeat-and-refer pattern is the most honest validation of quality available in this business.
What differentiates ProEpoxy in the Nashville market from national franchise operators comes down to accountability. When a floor fails 18 months after installation, a franchise operation's warranty may be administered by a corporate entity that disputes the claim and delays resolution. When one of our floors needs warranty attention, you call the same (888) 275-7078 number you called for the original quote, and the same crew lead who installed your floor assesses it. Our ownership and crew are local - we live in the communities we work in, from Mount Juliet to Antioch to Parker. We're not going anywhere, and we have no headquarters to hide behind.
On the technical side, our training program is built around Nashville-specific conditions, not a national installer curriculum. New crew members spend their first six weeks working alongside experienced leads on active Nashville projects - learning what a Nashville metro high-vapor slab looks like when the moisture meter reading is wrong, what hot-tire failure looks like on a two-year-old floor that used the wrong topcoat chemistry, and what proper CSP-2 diamond ground profile looks like versus what you get from an underpowered rental machine. This field-specific training produces installers who can problem-solve on-site rather than following a laminated installation guide that was written for a climate nothing like Nashville's. The outcome: our preparation-related failure rate (delamination from inadequate surface prep or moisture issues) has been under 1% over the past decade of installations across the metro.
For anyone considering a floor project who wants to verify our claims before committing, we maintain a project portfolio with before-and-after documentation from installations across Nashville neighborhoods - from Mount Juliet to Goodlettsville to Brentwood. We also provide references from current commercial clients - facility managers at Nashville-area distribution centers, restaurant owners, and HOA managers - who can speak to installation quality, communication, and how we handled anything unexpected that came up during the project. Ask for references when you call - we provide them willingly. A contractor who can't provide local references for completed work in your specific application type is a meaningful data point.
We invest in continuing education for our installation crew - manufacturer product training, ICRI (International Concrete Repair Institute) surface preparation standards, and factory-supervised application courses. When a new product generation enters the market (a new polyaspartic formulation, an updated moisture-tolerant primer), our crew learns it properly before it goes on a Nashville floor. We've turned down product lines that were commercially available but hadn't cleared our internal review process because the technical data sheets had unanswered questions about long-term performance in hot, humid storage conditions. Our product selection is conservative - we're not chasing novelty; we're chasing proven performance in conditions specific to South Tennessee. The combination of experienced installation crew, vetted product selection, and honest pre-installation assessment is what generates the referral-heavy customer base we've built in Nashville since we started here. Customers who refer us to their neighbors are making a reputational commitment - they believe we'll treat their referral the way we treated them. We take that seriously, and it shows in how we operate every project regardless of size.
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