How much to charge for garage floor epoxy
Coating failures are almost never the coating. They are the preparation, and prep is the line most likely to be cut to win the bid.
Below: the published wage for this work, why your billing rate has to be well above it, how this job is actually priced, and what moves the number. Put your own rate into the generator and you get a real itemized estimate built on it.
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| Description | Qty | Unit | Unit price | Total |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Labor — itemized by task | hrs | hour | your rate | — |
| Materials — with your markup applied | qty | ea / sq ft | cost + markup | — |
| Permits, disposal, access | — | — | — | — |
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How garage floor epoxy is priced
Priced per square foot for a named coating system, because a single-day polyaspartic and a multi-coat epoxy with flake are different products, different cure schedules and different prices. Mechanical preparation — diamond grinding or shot blasting — is a separate line and is not optional. Crack and pit repair, moisture testing, and any oil contamination treatment are priced individually, since a slab that fails a moisture test cannot take the coating at all.
What moves the number
- Slab condition: cracks, spalling, pitting and previous coatings to remove
- Moisture in the slab, which has to be tested before a system is chosen
- Oil and contamination, which needs treatment or the coating will not bond
- Grinding versus shot blasting, and dust containment in an attached garage
- Coating system chosen, number of coats and whether flake and topcoat are included
- Cure schedule — how many days the customer cannot park on it
- Moving contents out and back, if that falls to you
How garage floor epoxy gets underpriced
- Bidding against someone who skipped grinding, and matching their number
- No moisture test, then watching the coating delaminate months later
- Treating crack and pit repair as included on a slab that clearly needs it
- Underestimating removal of an old failing coating, which is slow work
- Not writing down the cure time, so the customer parks on it too early
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