Epoxy floors · Tempe, AZ
Tempe epoxy flooring company for rentals and shops
A Tempe floor is usually a small one: a garage under a rental, a patio behind a duplex, a shop bay off Broadway Road. Small floors fail on the same 3 things as big ones, moisture, prep and film thickness. Send the square footage and what parks on it, and someone from our team calls you back to plan your Tempe epoxy flooring project.
The slab
What a Tempe slab asks for
Tempe reads around 1,163 ft at the City Hall area from a USGS 3DEP point query, and the age of the concrete matters more. About 46 percent of the city's housing units went up between 1970 and 1989, and the median year built is about 1984, per ACS 2020-2024 5-year estimates via Census Reporter. A slab poured in that window has taken 4 decades of summer expansion and winter contraction, which is one place apron cracks come from. ZIP codes 85281, 85282 and 85283 carry a Tempe primary-city assignment in USPS data.
- A moisture test on the day, because a slab that reads dry in December can read wet in August.
- Oil and coolant pulled out of a shop bay before the grinder touches it.
- A build named by dry film thickness, not by a kit label.
- Cracks and saw joints filled with something that moves, so the film has somewhere to go.
Systems
The floors that fit Tempe buildings
Only about 38 percent of Tempe housing units are detached single-family homes, the same ACS tables, so much of the residential work is a garage under a rental, a patio or a laundry room rather than a long suburban bay. Those rooms want a solid epoxy build at 10 to 20 mil under a polyaspartic topcoat: thin enough to clear a door, tough enough for a washing machine that walks.
The commercial side is light industrial. The Maker District at Priest and Broadway holds the United Dairymen of Arizona dairy plant, per the City of Tempe economic development page, and a food plant floor lives on wash-down water and cleaner rather than road grime. The Smith Industrial Hub covers about 302 acres of mostly light industrial and office use along Loop 202 and Loop 101, and Novus Innovation Corridor is a 330 acre area run as a partnership between the city and Arizona State University.
Signs
4 signs a Tempe floor is going
A ring of bare concrete under each tire. Hot tire pickup takes the film off the slab and leaves the tread outline, which is coating leaving rather than a stain.
The door end has yellowed. Sun can break down a coating that carries no UV blocker, so the half of the garage facing west fades first.
The apron crack can open each June. Concrete expands in summer heat and contracts when it cools, and a rigid coat over a moving joint can tear on the same line each year.
Sweeping raises dust. Powder off the floor is bare concrete, and a topcoat struggles to hold until the surface is ground.
3 steps
How a Tempe floor gets built
The room gets measured and the slab gets read. Square footage, the door it drains toward, the oil spots and the cracks.
The slab gets ground, cracks and spalls filled, and a moisture test run on an in-slab probe or a calcium chloride test.
Base coat, broadcast and topcoat, then the cure window. Light foot traffic at 12 hours and a car only after 96 hours in warm conditions, per a garage flooring company's guide.
Costs
What epoxy flooring costs in Tempe
HomeGuide (opens in a new tab) puts installed epoxy at $4 to $10 per sq ft, which makes a 1-car garage $1,200 to $3,900 and a 2-car $1,600 to $5,800. A home services cost guide prices an installed epoxy floor at $3 to $12 per sq ft. The spread is the build, not the ZIP code: a thin roll-on coat and a 20 to 30 mil flake floor are different products, and a patio is priced by the square foot like a garage bay.
| Scope | Published range | Source |
|---|---|---|
| Epoxy, installed | $4 to $10 per sq ft | HomeGuide |
| 1-car garage | $1,200 to $3,900 | HomeGuide |
| 2-car garage | $1,600 to $5,800 | HomeGuide |
| Epoxy, installed | $3 to $12 per sq ft | Home services cost guide |
Published ranges, not a quote.
3 questions
Questions from Tempe owners
Still have a question? Call (747) 243-2089 and describe the floor.
Can a renter get the garage floor coated?
With the owner's written permission, yes, and the permission should name the system so nobody is surprised at move-out. A 1-car bay lands at $1,200 to $3,900 installed on the published HomeGuide range.
Does July push the work to another month?
It can. Epoxy needs a minimum of about 50 to 55 F and cannot go on above about 85 to 90 F, per a garage flooring company's guide, and a west-facing Tempe garage slab can pass that on July afternoons. Early mornings can work, and October through April is a wider window. Polyaspartic systems install in colder conditions.
How is a small shop bay priced?
At the published $4 to $10 per sq ft (HomeGuide), a bay is priced on measured square footage, and the fixed costs, mobilization, grinding, the moisture test and masking, land on a small floor in full.
