Epoxy floors · Gilbert, AZ
Gilbert epoxy flooring company for shops and garages
Gilbert concrete is young, and your garage or shop floor may be the first coating the slab has ever had. Nothing has to be stripped, which sounds like a shortcut and is not: a troweled surface, a builder sealer and 2 decades of dust decide whether the film stays. Tell us the room and the square footage, and someone from our team calls you back to plan your Gilbert epoxy flooring project.
The slab
What a first coating on Gilbert concrete gets you
Gilbert reads around 1,236 ft at the town center on a USGS 3D Elevation Program point sample, which says the ground is flat, not that the slab is dry. The housing numbers say more: more than 4 in 5 homes here (81.7 percent) are detached, only 4.1 percent went up before 1980, and the median build year is about 2003, per ACS 2020-2024 5-year estimates via Census Reporter. That concrete is settled and finished, which is the part that catches people out.
- A diamond grind that opens the trowel skin, because a film over a sealed or dusty slab is the marginal bond that an epoxy trade guide lists among the 3 causes of hot tire pickup.
- A moisture reading on an in-slab probe before a system is named.
- Oil drawn out of the parking spot rather than painted over, since a stain set into the concrete can stop a film from holding.
Use
Floors for a Gilbert shop and a Gilbert garage
6 ZIP codes come back as Gilbert, 85233, 85234, 85295, 85296, 85297 and 85298, per zippopotam.us place data. 85236 comes back as Higley instead.
The residential room is a garage bay, and the build that suits it is a flake broadcast at 20 to 30 mil under a polyaspartic topcoat that is made to hold color on a west-facing door. The commercial room is in the Northwest employment area, which the Gilbert Office of Economic Development calls the densest employment area in town, light industrial and back-office, with the Heritage District downtown core inside it. EchoStar, Curtiss Wright, Lockheed Martin, Moog and Northrop Grumman are named among employers there. Steel, coolant and a pallet jack sit on a slab in that tenancy instead of a passenger tire, so the build goes to 40 to 60 mil quartz.
The soil at the town center is Contine clay loam on 0 to 1 percent slopes, well drained, per USDA-NRCS SSURGO, a map unit that describes one coordinate rather than a lot.
Signs
4 signs the Gilbert slab is not ready
The floor raises dust when you sweep it. Loose cement fines are what a film struggles to attach to, and a dusty slab is a documented route to pickup.
A wheel track has gone dull where a sealer used to shine. A builder sealer wears first in the tire path, and what is left can act as a release layer.
Oil has soaked into the parking spot. A patch that has been dark for years comes out of the concrete first, or the coating can let go.
A hairline crack runs out of a control joint. A slab poured around the median build year has taken about 23 summers of expansion and contraction, and a control joint is where that movement shows.
3 steps
How the work goes
The floor gets measured, and the slab gets read for oil, cracks and old sealer.
The slab gets ground back to aggregate, cracks and joints get filled, and a moisture test runs.
A base coat, the broadcast, then the topcoat. Foot traffic at 12 hours and a car at 96 on a polyaspartic system in warm conditions, per a garage flooring company's guide.
Costs
What epoxy work costs in Gilbert
HomeGuide (opens in a new tab) puts installed epoxy at $4 to $10 per sq ft, with a 2-car garage at $1,600 to $5,800 and a 3-car at $2,300 to $8,600. Family Handyman lists a 3-car at $1,680 to $6,720 with labor included, and the 2 can differ because the builds differ: a color coat with no broadcast is not a full flake floor. Fixr puts a concrete floor coating nationally at $1,250 to $4,000, and a national average carries no Gilbert slab.
| Scope | Published range | Source |
|---|---|---|
| Epoxy, installed | $4 to $10 per sq ft | HomeGuide |
| 2-car garage | $1,600 to $5,800 | HomeGuide |
| 3-car garage | $2,300 to $8,600 | HomeGuide |
| 3-car, labor included | $1,680 to $6,720 | Family Handyman |
| Concrete floor coating, national | $1,250 to $4,000 | Fixr |
Published ranges, not a quote.
3 questions
Questions Gilbert owners ask
Still have a question? Call (747) 243-2089 and describe the floor.
The slab has never been coated. Does that make the job simpler?
Partly. There is no failed film to strip, and a sealer or curing compound usually sits there instead. Grinding takes either off, and a moisture test decides the rest.
What does a shop floor in the Northwest employment area need?
A 40 to 60 mil quartz build, because that depth can take abrasion from steel and pallets that a 10 to 20 mil solid coat may not.
How is a 3-car bay priced against a 2-car?
HomeGuide puts a 3-car at $2,300 to $8,600 against $1,600 to $5,800 for a 2-car, and a 2-car floor runs 400 to 576 sq ft against 576 to 864 sq ft for a 3-car.
