ServicesGarage floor coatings
A garage floor ground to bare concrete, not rolled over it.
Polyaspartic topcoat
Protects against scratches, nicks, and wear and tear.
Vapor barrier
Stops ground moisture from ruining the floor over time.
Most garage floor coatings in New Jersey fail for one reason: the slab was cleaned instead of opened. Here the concrete gets ground with 30-grit diamonds before anything is mixed.
How the slab gets prepared
Four steps, in this order, on every floor.
Grind with 30-grit diamonds
The slab gets ground — not acid-etched — to scratch the surface open so the epoxy has something to adhere to. This is the step the hardware-store kit skips.
Vacuum out all the debris
Grinding leaves dust sitting in the profile that was just opened. It comes out before anything is mixed, because resin bonds to concrete, not to what is lying on top of it.
Patch every crack
Cracks get filled rather than coated over, so they do not telegraph back through the finished floor the first time the slab moves.
Lay a vapor barrier
To stop moisture coming up from the ground and ruining the floor over time. Vapor driving up through a slab is the one condition that defeats any coating.
Why the kit from the big-box store let go.
If you have already tried this once, the failure was almost certainly not the product. That kit gets rolled onto concrete rinsed with an acid etch — which cleans a slab but does not open one. There is no profile for the resin to key into, so it bonds to the sealed top surface and nothing else. It looks correct for a season and releases in the second, usually starting where a hot tire sat.
New Jersey makes that worse than most places. Road salt and calcium chloride ride in on your tires from November through March. Freeze-thaw cycles drive moisture up through slabs poured without a vapor barrier underneath. And a tire pulled in hot off the parkway in August will lift a coating that was never mechanically bonded.
What actually goes down.
Two finishes, and they are the only two we do: flake or metallic. Whichever you pick, the last coat is the one your floor lives with.
Starting at $6.75 per square foot.
Flake
Decorative vinyl flake broadcast over the base coat. Textured, and good at hiding the everyday dirt a garage collects.
Metallic
Metallic pigment worked through the resin while it is still wet, so no two floors come out identical.
The top layer
Sealed with a polyaspartic topcoat.
The last coat is the one your floor actually lives with — so it’s polyaspartic, to protect against scratches, nicks, and everyday wear and tear. Polyaspartic topcoats are also UV-stable, so a floor in a sunlit garage doesn’t yellow the way a plain epoxy topcoat can.
How long you lose the garage.
- Typically three days without your garage.
- Everything comes out first. The garage needs to be emptied before the work starts.
What it costs.
Starting at $6.75 per square foot
A typical 400 sq ft two-car garage starts at $2,700.
Starting price. Your quote depends on the size and condition of your slab and the finish you choose. Call or text (908) 812-3925 for a real number.
Call or text Chris.
(908) 812-3925. The owner does the estimate and the owner does the install.