The short answer: a professionally installed epoxy flake floor costs $9 per square foot all-inclusive at our shop — about $3,960 for a typical two-car garage. Quartz systems run $15 per square foot. Those aren't "starting at" numbers; they include grinding, crack repair, and every coat.
If you've started getting quotes for a garage floor coating, you've probably noticed something annoying: almost nobody will tell you a price until a salesperson has been to your house. We think that's backwards. We're a Fort Worth coating contractor, these are the rates we charge every customer, and this guide walks through exactly where the money goes — including the situations where your price would be higher, and the cheaper alternatives we'd honestly steer some people toward.
Epoxy garage floor cost by size
Coating is priced by the square foot, so your garage's footprint does most of the math. Here's what our flat rates work out to for common garage sizes:
| Garage size | Typical area | Flake ($9/sq ft) | Premium flake ($10/sq ft) | Quartz ($15/sq ft) |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1-car garage | ~264 sq ft (12×22) | $2,376 | $2,640 | $3,960 |
| 2-car garage | ~440 sq ft (20×22) | $3,960 | $4,400 | $6,600 |
| 3-car garage | ~660 sq ft (30×22) | $5,940 | $6,600 | $9,900 |
| Oversized / shop bay | 800+ sq ft | $7,200+ | $8,000+ | $12,000+ |
Not sure of your square footage? Measure length × width in feet, or use the instant estimator on our homepage — it does the math in seconds.
What an all-inclusive rate actually includes
The phrase "all-inclusive" gets abused in this industry, so here's precisely what's inside our per-square-foot price:
- Diamond grinding of the entire slab — the mechanical prep that makes the coating bond permanently (and the step cheap quotes skip)
- Routine crack and hole repair, filled and profiled before any coating goes down
- Epoxy base coat that penetrates the ground surface
- Your color layer — any of our 20 signature flake blends at the base rate
- UV-stable polyaspartic topcoat that won't yellow in the Texas sun
What can add to the price
A trustworthy quote names its exceptions up front. Here are ours — the only things that can move your number, each confirmed in writing before work starts:
| Add-on | Cost | When it applies |
|---|---|---|
| Premium flake blend | +$1 / sq ft | Only if you choose one of our 6 upgraded blends; all 20 signature colors are free |
| Moisture barrier coat | +$1 / sq ft | Slabs with vapor or moisture issues, so the system bonds for good |
| Generator rental | $150 / day | Only when on-site power can't run our grinding equipment |
| Heavy crack or slab repair | Quoted on-site | Badly damaged concrete beyond routine crack fill |
| Grind & recoat of a failed coating | Quoted on-site | Removing an old peeling epoxy or paint job before the new system |
| Trash / clear-out haul-off | Quoted on-site | If you want us to empty the garage for you |
Why quotes vary so much between companies
Get three quotes for the same garage and you might see numbers spread by thousands of dollars. The spread almost always comes down to three things:
- Prep depth. Diamond grinding takes equipment, labor, and a full day. Acid etching takes a jug and a hose. Both get called "surface prep" on a quote, but only one of them makes a coating last 15 years.
- What's actually going on your floor. A single rolled coat of epoxy paint and a four-layer ground-and-broadcast system are different products that happen to share a word. Ask every bidder how many layers, what the topcoat is, and whether it's UV-stable.
- Pricing games. "Call for a free quote" often means the price flexes to whatever the salesperson thinks you'll pay — which is exactly why we publish ours.
DIY epoxy kits: the honest comparison
A big-box DIY epoxy kit costs $150–$600 depending on your garage size and the brand. If a coating is a coating, that looks like a bargain — so here's the catch, from people who spend a lot of days grinding failed kits off of slabs:
Kit epoxy is thin, usually water-based, and applied over concrete that's been cleaned at best, not ground. Without a mechanical bond, the weakest link is the slab's smooth surface — and the classic failure is hot-tire pickup, where a summer tire heats the coating and peels it when you pull out. When a kit fails, you don't just lose the $400; you now own a garage-sized removal job, because the failed coating has to be ground off before anything else can go down.
Rule of thumb: a DIY kit is fine if you need a one-to-two-year cosmetic fix and accept the odds. If you want the floor done once, the professional system costs roughly 10× the kit — and lasts roughly 10× as long, with a warranty.
How long does an epoxy garage floor last?
Installed over diamond-ground concrete with a polyaspartic topcoat, our floors are built to last 15+ years under normal daily use — parked cars, hot tires, dropped tools, dragged trash cans, Texas summers. Every install carries a one-year warranty, and the practical lifespan math is what makes the price reasonable:
- $3,960 two-car flake floor ÷ 15 years ≈ $264 per year
- A $400 DIY kit redone every 2 years ≈ $200 per year — plus your weekends, and a floor that looks patchy between redos
Same order of magnitude per year — but one of them is a glossy, warrantied floor you never think about, and the other is a recurring chore.
Is an epoxy floor worth it?
Financially, a coated garage is one of the cheaper "finished room" upgrades a house can get — for around four thousand dollars, the garage stops being the unfinished part of the home. It cleans with a squeegee, hides dust and tire marks inside a flake pattern, brightens the space by bouncing light, and stops oil and road salt from soaking into the slab permanently. Whether that's worth it is your call; our job in this guide was to make sure you're deciding with real numbers instead of a sales pitch.
If you're weighing epoxy against a one-day polyurea pitch, read our polyurea vs. epoxy comparison next — and if you're still surveying every option from tiles to stains, start with our ranking of all seven garage floor options.
These prices are our real rates across the Dallas–Fort Worth area, including Weatherford, Granbury, Burleson, and Cleburne. The written quote you get on-site is the price you pay.