Epoxy garage floors · New Jersey
A garage floor sealed from below and protected on top.
Polyaspartic topcoat
Protects against scratches, nicks, and wear and tear.
Vapor barrier
Stops ground moisture from ruining the floor over time.
- Installed by the owner
- Insured
- From $6.75/sq ft
The part nobody explains
Garage floors fail from below and on top.
A coating does not fail because of the coating. It fails because of what is underneath it. New Jersey is unusually hard on a garage slab: road salt and calcium chloride ride in on your tires from November to March, freeze-thaw cycles drive moisture up through concrete poured without a vapor barrier, and a hot tire pulled in on an August afternoon will lift a coating that was only ever bonded to the sealed top surface of the slab.
That is what happens to the kit from the big-box store. It gets rolled onto concrete that was rinsed with an acid etch — which cleans the slab but does not open it. There is nothing for the resin to key into. It looks correct for one season and lets go in the second.
The fix is not a better product. It is mechanical preparation, and it is the entire reason one floor lasts twenty years and another lasts two.
How the slab gets prepared here
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 and the cheap installers fake.
Vacuum out all the debris
Grinding produces a slab full of 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, and it is the step most one-truck operations leave out.
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.
What we coat
Two finishes, three kinds of space, one installer.
Garages, basements and commercial space — in flake or metallic, the only two finishes we do.
Garage floors
The floor that takes the most abuse in the house.
Basements
Below grade, where moisture decides everything.
Commercial
Showrooms, gyms, light industrial — a different buyer entirely.
Pick a finish. There are two.
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.
Chris, the owner (left), on a job site.
Who does the work
The person who grinds your floor is the person who answers the phone.
Every floor is installed by the owner. That is the whole model, and it is the one thing a national franchise structurally cannot copy: they sell you a floor and then dispatch whichever crew is free that week, so the person who quoted the job is never the person kneeling on your slab.
It also means only one floor gets installed at a time. That is a real constraint, not a sales tactic — and it is why the calendar fills up before the season does.
Proof
We’d rather show you the floors than describe them.
Real jobs, including the part most contractors never show you — the grinder on bare concrete. Nothing here is a stock photo or someone else’s work.
Before: grinding the bare slab
After: the finished metallic floor
Cost
What a floor actually costs here.
Most contractors in this trade hide the number behind “contact us for a free quote.” Here it is instead — it’s the first thing everyone wants to know, and it saves you an appointment if the number isn’t close.
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.
Get a price
Call or text Chris.
(908) 812-3925. The person who answers is the person who installs your floor.