I just got 2 quotes to epoxy my 3-car garage and I am amazed. Sounds like they do great work: mechanically prep floor, 2-coats of epoxy, flakes, and poly coating but I am amazed at the price. I might have to do the motofloor from costco instead!
$1850 for epoxy???Motofloor here I come
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hitek
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jettfuel said:I just got 2 quotes to epoxy my 3-car garage and I am amazed. Sounds like they do great work: mechanically prep floor, 2-coats of epoxy, flakes, and poly coating but I am amazed at the price. I might have to do the motofloor from costco instead!
How many square feet is that for?
ersatzs2
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The pro jobs are really expensive. prices for my 1250 sf garage were $5-7.5K Pretty amazing. I'm doing it myself using Epoxy-Coat. Hoping to get it done this weekend before the temps plummet...
Kingham
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so let me guess
$3.75 a square foot to put down 2 coats of epoxy, chips and a top coat.
sound like a fair price to me.
Yep... you can do it yourself and save labor cost.
Question:
How much do you think we should charge per square foot?
How much do you make an hour? add that to your product cost and add insurance, self employment tax, payroll, shop rent,fuel, tools purchases etc. OH,, and then the insurance of giving you a 10 year warranty if anything goes wrong with the floor. Don't for get the opprotunity cost of the other things you should be doing with your time.
$3.75 a square foot to put down 2 coats of epoxy, chips and a top coat.
sound like a fair price to me.
Yep... you can do it yourself and save labor cost.
Question:
How much do you think we should charge per square foot?
How much do you make an hour? add that to your product cost and add insurance, self employment tax, payroll, shop rent,fuel, tools purchases etc. OH,, and then the insurance of giving you a 10 year warranty if anything goes wrong with the floor. Don't for get the opprotunity cost of the other things you should be doing with your time.
Sack
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Go pick up Muralo 2 part and do it yourself. It's all in the prep. Did mine about 5 years ago and love it. It's held up to egyptian style moving a heavy lathe, mill, and grinder across the floor using pipe and a digging bar as well as tons of other stuff. If you do it right you'll be very happy. Then you can spend the $ saved on other things 
65vetteracer
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BEEN THERE AND DONE THAT, a few times. I would never ever do epoxy or paint again and I did both the expensive stuff and the do it your self coatings and they all crack, peel and stain. Then there is the issue with most of the here today -gone tomorrow garage coating guys.
You will be much happier in the long run with a modular floor, I know I am
You will be much happier in the long run with a modular floor, I know I am
BoostAddiction
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Kingham said:
If I had been able to get a quote for $3.75 a foot with the epoxy I wanted, I would have jumped at it.
I ended up doing it myself, and hiring a helper for 4 hours each day for 4 days. Adding up the eopxy, the equipment rental, the sandpaper and the other materials, I probably have about $1000 in materials and contract labor alone. And because it was my first time, the results were not cosmetically perfect everywhere (though structurally it seems fine).
In may area (metro Washington DC area) installed floor quotes for my size garage (<800 sf) ran between $3500 for the thin 30-mil Home-Depot stuff to over $6000 for the thicker stuff with flakes.
Although I didn't have a better use for my time when I was doing the makeover, I would have been happy to get someone else to do it, assuming they were good, referenceable and had done this before- and reasonably priced, as the original quote in this thread seemed to be.
Just one datapoint.
-Will
BoostAddiction
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65vetteracer said:
Good epoxy floors don't lift, crack, peel or stain.
If yours did, there was a problem in the original epoxy, or its application. I've seen plenty over the years to validate this opinion.
On the other hand, I haven't seen one case where a Home-Depot kind of paint didn't do all of that, eventually. I have a neighbor who did his garage floor using Behr "garage floor paint" a few weeks ago. I didn't have the heart to tell him he'd be redoing it next year.
-Will
Sack
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65vetteracer said:
As folks have pointed out above, just like welding, it's all in the prep. Take shortcuts or buy cheap epoxy and those are the results you'll end up with. Don't think pros take shortcuts? Then don't watch builders put up a house.
BoostAddiction said:
I actually used thisn product. I did a thorough prep and then just rolled it on. I was rough on the floor afterwards. I've got to admit, it held up great for me. Five years after the coating, I took 30 minutes to roll another coat on, (after just cleaning the floor), and it looks better than ever.
If you do the right prep, it'll work out great.