Epoxy flooring turns a dusty concrete garage into a sealed, oil-resistant surface that lasts 15 to 20 years. We install residential epoxy floor coatings for garages, workshops, and showrooms across Newport Beach, Irvine, Mission Viejo, and the rest of Orange County. Done right with a diamond-ground slab and a polyaspartic topcoat, it doesn't peel.
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Not every epoxy flooring project needs the same finish. Here's how the common options compare so you can pick the right one for your space.
100% Solids Epoxy + Polyaspartic Topcoat Our default residential system. 100 percent solids epoxy basecoat at 10 to 20 mils, sealed with a UV-stable polyaspartic clear. Hybrid build that gives you epoxy thickness with polyaspartic durability.
Decorative Flake System Vinyl chips broadcast into the wet basecoat to refusal, then back-rolled and sealed with a polyaspartic clear. The chips add slip resistance and hide minor slab imperfections under the texture.
Quartz Broadcast Colored quartz aggregate broadcast into a pigmented epoxy base, then sealed with a chemical-resistant topcoat. Heavier build than flake and significantly more durable in high-abuse environments.
Metallic Epoxy Pearlescent and reflective pigments suspended in clear epoxy, hand-troweled into swirls and patterns before cure. Every floor is unique and the depth effect reads almost three-dimensional under garage lighting.
Solid-Color Single-Coat A budget-friendly pigmented epoxy in a single basecoat plus topcoat. No flake, no metallic, just a clean uniform color. Good fit for shop floors and rentals where the priority is sealing the concrete and simplifying cleanup.
Industrial Heavy-Duty Epoxy High-build novolac or cycloaliphatic epoxy systems engineered for chemical exposure, forklift traffic, and extreme abrasion. Often combined with quartz broadcast and a chemical-resistant urethane topcoat.
What working with us actually looks like
We measure the floor, check for old coatings, look for cracks and pitting, and run a calcium chloride or RH probe test to confirm the slab isn't pushing moisture. We send you a written quote with the system, color, and flake or metallic options laid out before any work starts.
Industrial planetary grinders with metal-bond diamonds open the slab to a CSP-3 profile. Old paint, sealer, glue, or failed coatings come off in this step. We HEPA-vacuum continuously so dust stays out of your house.
Cracks and joints get filled with polyurea filler, ground flush, then we roll a primer to lock the concrete pores. The pigmented basecoat goes down next. If you're doing a decorative system, this is when we broadcast vinyl flake or quartz aggregate into the wet coating.
A clear UV-stable polyaspartic or polyurethane topcoat seals everything. Foot traffic in 12 to 24 hours. Vehicle traffic in 24 to 72 hours depending on the system. We walk you through cleaning instructions and what cleaners to keep off the floor.
Free on-site estimates. We'll come to you anywhere in Orange County.
DIY kits are water-based epoxy at about 3 mils, applied over an acid-etched slab that never bonds properly. Our systems are 100 percent solids epoxy at 10 to 20 mils over a diamond-ground slab with a polyaspartic topcoat. That's roughly 5 times the film thickness with a real mechanical bond and heat resistance.
Yes, when the topcoat is polyaspartic or polyurea. Hot tires bond to coatings that soften under heat and pull the coating off in tire-shaped patches when you back out. Polyaspartic stays rigid up to about 300 degrees, so the tire releases cleanly and we've never had a callback on a polyaspartic-topped system.
Most of our installs use both: epoxy as the basecoat for thickness and color depth, polyaspartic as the clear topcoat for UV stability and tire resistance. Full polyaspartic systems are available when you need to park on the floor in 24 hours, but the build is thinner and costs more per square foot. For most residential garages, the hybrid epoxy plus polyaspartic system is the right answer.
Properly prepped 100 percent solids epoxy with a polyaspartic topcoat lasts 15 to 20 years in a residential garage, often longer. The wear point is the topcoat, which we can recoat at year 8 to 10 to extend the floor indefinitely. Early failures we've seen are all prep shortcuts or skipped moisture tests, not coating failures.
Almost never, because new epoxy bonds to whatever's under it, including a coating that's already failing. Fresh epoxy over a 5-year-old painted floor will lift the old one off the slab the first time it gets stressed. We diamond-grind old coatings off as part of standard prep, not as an extra.
Smooth epoxy gets slick when wet, but flake and quartz broadcast systems have texture from the chips and stay slip resistant. For solid-color floors we can add aluminum oxide or polypropylene grit into the topcoat for traction without making the floor hard to clean. We ask about kids, pets, and how often the floor gets wet during the consult.
Solid colors come in any standard or custom RAL or Sherwin-Williams color, and flake systems use 1/4 or 1/8 inch vinyl chips in hundreds of pre-blended combinations. Metallic epoxy mixes pearlescent pigments into the resin and we hand-trowel patterns before it sets, so every floor is unique. We bring physical samples to the walkthrough so you're not picking from a screen.
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