Epoxy flooring in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma

What does epoxy flooring cost in Oklahoma City?

Epoxy flooring in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma runs $6.08 to $10.17 a square foot, installed. A two-car garage (500 SF) lands at $4,400 to $5,400. Most of that price is the prep work, not the paint. We drive to OKC from our shop in Prague, about 58 miles east, and the drive shows up as its own line on your quote.

We install professional epoxy flooring in garages, shops, and warehouses all over the metro. Before you compare bids, ask each one how thick the finished floor will be. That one answer tells you more than the price per foot.

A store kit versus a real floor

A store kit is too thin to last. A $60 water-based kit is 40 to 50 percent solids, so most of what you roll on dries away. What’s left is 3 to 5 mils thick. Hot tires pull it up within two or three seasons.

Our base coat is 100% solids epoxy. Nothing dries away, so it builds 20 mils or more. It also bites into the floor, because we grind the slab open first (CSP 3, if you’re reading bids). That makes our floor four to six times thicker than the kit.

We’re not knocking the kit. It’s a fine weekend fix for a floor that’ll get a real coating later. We just want you to know which one you’re buying.

What does OKC weather do to a garage floor?

It’s rough on it. July and August run past 100 degrees. January can drop into the single digits. One spring storm can swing the humidity 30 points in an afternoon. Your garage floor sits through all of that every year.

Thin coatings fail at the edges first. They curl, then hot tires lift them. Plain epoxy has one more problem: it turns yellow and soft in the sun. So our standard OKC floor finishes with a polyaspartic topcoat instead. It keeps its color and it takes the heat. That topcoat is a big part of why a floor is still good at year fifteen instead of peeling at year two.

For the full statewide picture, see the Oklahoma epoxy flooring page. The Oklahoma City city page lists everything else we do in town.

Why does epoxy peel off some older OKC slabs?

Water. It comes up from underneath.

A lot of the metro sits on red clay (geologists call it Permian red bed) that swells and holds water. Low ground near the North Canadian River, the Deep Fork, Lake Overholser, and the South Canadian stays wet close to the surface. That water rises through the slab as vapor. An epoxy film on top traps it. You get blisters, a white crust, and a floor that lets go.

Old buildings carry the most risk. Many slabs poured before 1980 around Film Row, Stockyards City, and Bricktown have no vapor barrier under them. So we look for warning signs first:

• The slab was poured before 1980.
• It sits on low ground near a river or creek.
• A coating failed on it before.
• It has water stains.
• Nobody knows how old it is.

If any of those fit, we test before we grind. We use a calcium chloride test per ASTM F1869. Above 3 pounds per 1,000 square feet per 24 hours, a moisture primer goes down before the base coat. Below that, we lay the normal floor.

A new slab in a Deer Creek build rarely needs the primer. A 1940s Film Row warehouse almost always does. We’d rather spend an afternoon testing your slab than a weekend explaining why your floor bubbled 18 months later.

What goes on a garage floor in Edmond, Norman, or Moore?

Most OKC homeowners pick a flake floor. It runs $8.55 to $10.39 a square foot. We build it in four steps:

1. Roll on a 100% solids epoxy base coat.
2. Throw colored vinyl chips into the wet base until it can’t hold any more.
3. Vacuum off the loose chips and roll the surface clean.
4. Seal it all with a polyaspartic topcoat.

The finished floor is 22 to 25 mils thick. The chips hide small flaws in the slab and give your tires grip when they come in wet. A two-car garage (500 SF) lands $4,400 to $5,400. A three-car or oversized garage (750 SF) runs $6,500 to $7,950.

We coat new and older garages all over the metro: Edmond, Norman, Deer Creek, north OKC, Yukon, Mustang, Piedmont, Moore, and Choctaw.

Want one solid color instead? Solid epoxy with a polyaspartic topcoat is quoted per job. Quartz or metallic floors run $6.08 to $10.17.

Building a barndominium in eastern Oklahoma County or Lincoln County? The shop side usually gets flake, and the living side often gets polished concrete. We can pour the slab and finish both sides under one Pour-4-Polish plan. Then one company answers for the floor from the dirt to the topcoat.

What do OKC warehouses along I-40 need?

Forklifts decide what a warehouse floor needs. The I-35, I-40, and I-44 belt through south OKC and Yukon is full of them. Hard forklift wheels tear thin coatings loose in three to five years. So warehouse aisles get a 20-mil epoxy base and a thick polyaspartic topcoat. We keep the colors useful: light gray to brighten the room, yellow for traffic lanes, and color zones where your safety plan calls for them.

OKC warehouse floors run $6.08 to $10.17 a square foot. The price per foot drops a little on big floors, since the setup costs the same either way.

Hangar and shop floors around Tinker and Midwest City see jet fuel, JP-8, hydraulic fluid, and solvents. Those floors get a thick 100% solids epoxy base (15 to 20 mils) and a chemical-resistant polyaspartic or urethane topcoat. We mix grit into the topcoat so a wet floor isn’t slick. A spill should take a mop, not a repair crew.

What should you ask before anyone coats your floor?

Ask how they’ll prep it. Prep is where the money goes. We grind the floor open with diamonds or a shot blaster, fill cracks and chips with epoxy mortar, and strip off any old coating or sealer. A clean slab prices at the low end. An old warehouse with old coatings, chips, and water stains prices at the high end, because it takes more hours. The color and the chips are the cheap part. The grinder is the expensive part, and it decides whether your floor is still stuck down in year ten. We list prep on your quote so you can see it.

Ask about old tile glue. Buildings from before 1980 around Film Row, Stockyards City, and Bricktown may have asbestos in the old tile glue. We look for it on our walk-through. If it’s there, a licensed abatement crew takes it out before we grind.

Ask where the drive cost is. We book OKC jobs in blocks. The drive is its own line on every quote, so a Yukon job and a Norman job show different travel costs. It isn’t hidden in the price per foot.

Grind it right. Prime it if the slab asks for it. The coating takes care of itself.

Related Oklahoma City and Oklahoma pages

Other OKC services: Oklahoma City polished concrete, Oklahoma City garage floor coatings, and Oklahoma City concrete flatwork. The master epoxy flooring page explains how each system works. The Oklahoma state hub covers the rest of the state. Over in northeast Oklahoma, see Tulsa epoxy flooring.