Residential · Vaughan
Garage floor coatings for Vaughan homes
A coated garage floor should shrug off brine, hot tires and a dropped socket set. That comes from the preparation and the layer build, not from the colour you pick.
What you are buying
The floor is four decisions deep before anyone opens a pail.
A garage in Woodbridge with a 1990s power-troweled slab and a new build in Vellore Village with a green, still-curing floor need different answers. So we look at the slab before we quote a system.
- Profile. How aggressively the concrete gets ground, based on hardness and whether a curing compound or old coating is present.
- Primer. Whether the slab needs a moisture-tolerant primer or a standard penetrating one.
- Build thickness. Thin decorative builds and full-flake broadcast builds wear very differently under a car.
- Topcoat chemistry. Epoxy, polyaspartic or a hybrid, chosen for cure speed, UV stability and the season you are installing in.
Edges are where floors die
Meltwater and salt find the weak line first. Perimeters, the apron at the door, control joints and the transition to block all get detailed rather than feathered out.
| Finish | Looks like | Worth knowing |
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| Full flake | Speckled, matte-to-satin, texture underfoot | Hides dust, tire marks and slab imperfections better than anything else. The default for a working garage. |
| Solid colour | Even, uniform, workshop-clean | Shows every crumb and every repair. Best on a slab that is already flat and sound. |
| Metallic | Marbled, high gloss, reflective | A showpiece finish. Slippery when wet unless an anti-slip additive goes in the topcoat. |
| Quartz broadcast | Fine granular, low sheen | The most slip-resistant option. Common where a garage doubles as a mudroom entry. |
Any of these can be built on an epoxy, polyaspartic or hybrid platform. The finish is the look; the platform is the durability.
Pricing honestly
What actually moves the number.
We do not publish a per-square-foot rate, because the same garage can differ by a factor of two once the slab is assessed. These are the variables that decide it.
Slab condition
Spalling, pitting, oil saturation and old failing coatings all add removal and repair time before any coating is applied. This is the single biggest swing.
Square footage and shape
A three-car bay is cheaper per square foot than a single. Alcoves, steps, floor drains and a separate storage room add edge work, and edges are slow.
System and build
A full-flake broadcast with a double topcoat costs more than a light chip build. Fast-cure polyaspartic materials cost more per litre than standard epoxy.
Moisture
If testing shows vapour drive above what a standard primer tolerates, a moisture-mitigating primer is required. It is not optional and it is not free.
Access and season
A garage that must stay usable, or a winter install that needs the space heated to hold material temperature, both add time on site.
Extras
Cove base up the wall, anti-slip aggregate, a second colour band, or coating the apron outside the door are all itemised rather than buried.
On the day
What a two-car garage looks like start to finish.
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Clear and mask
The garage needs to be empty: shelving, freezer, bikes, the lot. Walls, door tracks and the driveway edge get masked before grinding starts.
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Diamond grind
Planetary grinders with vacuum extraction open the concrete and remove any sealer or coating. Edges are ground separately by hand.
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Repair and re-grind
Cracks, spalls and control joints are filled with a rigid repair material, then ground flush so the repair does not telegraph through the finish.
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Prime and base coat
Primer goes into the open profile, then the pigmented base while the primer is still in its recoat window.
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Broadcast flake
Flake is thrown into the wet base until the surface refuses more. Once cured, the excess is scraped and vacuumed back to a flat plane.
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Clear topcoat
One or two clear coats depending on the build, rolled at the specified wet film thickness. Anti-slip additive goes in here if it was quoted.
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Cure and hand back
You get written times for foot traffic, for putting furniture and shelving back, and for driving on it. Those three numbers are never the same.
Questions we actually get
Garage floor questions.
How long will my garage be out of use?
Can you coat a garage floor in the winter?
My last coating peeled. Will this one?
There is a crack across the middle of my floor. Is that a problem?
Do you coat the apron outside the garage door?
How do I look after it?
Get a real number for your garage.
Send the bay count or the dimensions plus a photo of the slab. You get the system, the build and a price range back in writing.