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, for a quartz or metallic floor. A flake garage floor runs $8.55 to $10.39. A two-car garage (500 SF) with flake lands at $4,400 to $5,400 before the drive cost. A small floor runs above the per-foot range, since setup spreads over fewer feet.

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 cheap water-based kit is only 40 to 50 percent solids, so about half of what you roll on dries off into the air. What’s left is 3 to 5 mils thick, and 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 concrete, because we grind the slab open first to the rough profile bids call CSP 3. That makes our floor four to six times thicker than the kit. Our epoxy floors at the Domino’s Pizza in Seminole and the MWC Animal Shelter in Midwest City are real floors, not kits.

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, and January can drop into the single digits. The slab crosses the freezing line about 63 times a year, and one spring thunderstorm can swing the humidity 30 points in an afternoon.

Thin coatings fail at the edges first. They curl, and then hot tires lift them. Plain epoxy has one more problem, because it turns yellow and soft in the summer sun. So our standard OKC floor finishes with a polyaspartic topcoat instead. Polyaspartic is a polyurea topcoat that keeps its color and 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 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?

It’s water, coming up from underneath. Much of the metro sits on Permian red bed clay, which runs under Oklahoma, Cleveland, and Canadian counties. It’s a red clay that swells when wet and holds water close to the surface on low ground. That means land like the stretches near the North Canadian River, the Deep Fork, Lake Overholser, and the South Canadian. That water rises through the slab as vapor, and it’s the top reason epoxy fails in the OKC area. An epoxy film on top traps the vapor. You get blisters, a white crust called efflorescence, and a floor that lets go.

Old buildings carry the most risk, since many slabs poured before 1980 around Film Row, Stockyards City, and Bricktown have no vapor barrier under them. So we look over every slab 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, which shows how much moisture the slab gives off in a day. 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. 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 they give your tires grip when they come in wet. A three-car or oversized garage (750 SF) runs $6,500 to $7,950 before the drive cost. On our quote tool this floor is called RESA Flake. RESA stands for resin-encapsulated seamless aggregate, and RESA Quartz and RESA Metallic are our quartz and metallic epoxy floors.

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 priced per job, after we see the floor.

Building a barndominium in eastern Oklahoma County or Lincoln County? The shop side usually gets flake, and the living side often gets polished concrete. Since one slab runs under both, we can pour it 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, and 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 at the bond 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-coded zones to meet OSHA rules.

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 polyaspartic or urethane topcoat that stands up to those chemicals. 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 to a CSP 3 profile, per the ICRI 310.2R guide. We fill cracks and chips with epoxy mortar, and we strip off any old coating, sealer, or curing compound. A clean slab prices at the low end. An old warehouse with old coatings, chips, and water stains prices at the high end, because grinding, crack filling, and primer all take 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 or black cutback adhesive. 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, and 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.