Epoxy Flooring in Los Angeles, CA

Los Angeles Epoxy Flooring Pros installs epoxy flooring in Los Angeles, CA and the cities that surround it. Garage floors make up the bulk of what we coat, along with patios, pool decks, interior slabs, workshops and commercial floors. An epoxy floor coating seals bare concrete so oil, dust, water and spills stay on top, where you can sweep or mop them off, instead of soaking in. Done right, it also gives a tired slab a clean, even color. Done wrong, it peels in the tire paths within a year. The difference is almost always in the prep and in choosing a system that suits the floor and the weather, and both of those change a lot across this city.

One city, several climates

Los Angeles stretches from the Pacific across the Basin and over the Santa Monica Mountains into the San Fernando Valley, and the weather changes with it. Wikipedia's Los Angeles article gives an average July high of about 70 degrees at the Santa Monica Pier and about 95 degrees in Canoga Park, only 15 miles away. Near the coast the air stays damp: average relative humidity at LAX runs 70.8 percent for the year and 76.6 percent in July and August. Late spring and early summer bring the gray, foggy mornings people call June Gloom. For a coating crew, that means a Westside or South Bay job often waits for the slab to warm and the morning moisture to burn off before the first coat, while a Valley job starts early to beat the afternoon heat. We read the temperature, humidity and dew point at the slab before each coat, not the forecast for downtown.

Sun and heat on garage floors

Downtown Los Angeles logs about 3,254 hours of sunshine a year, and plenty of garages here keep the door rolled up for much of the day. Ordinary epoxy handles that poorly. In HomeGuide's comparison, epoxy scores only poor to fair for UV resistance while polyaspartic scores excellent, so we put a UV-stable topcoat on any floor that sunlight can reach. Heat is the second challenge. Wikipedia says heat waves are common in September and October, and the city's official record, 121 degrees, was reached at Pierce College in Woodland Hills on September 6, 2020. Tires that come in hot off summer asphalt can soften a thin coating and peel it up. A thicker system bonded to ground concrete stops that, and on very hot days we start early, since resin sets faster as the slab warms.

Earthquake cracks and older slabs

The San Andreas fault system runs through the region, and the 1994 Northridge earthquake (magnitude 6.7) caused about $12.5 billion in damage. Add the shrinkage cracks every slab develops with age and most Los Angeles garages have some cracking. Much of the Valley was built out in the postwar boom of the 1950s and 1960s, so many slabs we see are well past middle age, with layers of paint, patches and oil. Before we quote, we look at each crack. A hairline crack that has not moved gets ground open and filled so it disappears under the coating. A crack where one edge has lifted above the other, or one that opens again after repair, means the slab is moving, and a coating cannot hold over it. You hear that from us before any quote, so you can get it evaluated first. We also keep control joints in mind: some we fill, and some we leave as working joints so the slab can move without tearing the coating.

Moisture under a dry-looking slab

Downtown Los Angeles averages about 14.7 inches of rain a year, nearly all of it between November and March, and summers usually stay dry. Even so, a garage slab that looks dry for months can be drawing moisture up from the soil, especially beside a planter bed or a sprinkler line on the far side of the wall. Vapor rising through concrete ranks among the top causes of blistered, lifting coatings. We take a moisture reading during the estimate. When it comes back high, we switch to a primer formulated for damp concrete or let you know the slab has to dry before coating.

Epoxy flooring cost in Los Angeles

Published national guides offer a reasonable starting point. According to HomeGuide, installed epoxy runs $4 to $10 per square foot, so a two-car garage typically lands around $1,600 to $5,800, and polyaspartic runs $5 to $12 per square foot. Stripping an older coating, repairing cracks, choosing flake or metallic, and the overall slab size all push the number. We never quote a floor by phone. We measure, test, and hand you a written estimate, and that estimate is your price.

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What to ask epoxy flooring contractors

Whether you call us or other epoxy flooring companies, these questions sort out a floor that lasts from one that peels:

• How will you prep the floor? Diamond grinding opens the surface and removes old sealer and oil. Acid etching alone often leaves both behind.
• Is the slab checked for moisture before you coat? Ask what the test is and what happens if it fails.
• What topcoat goes over the color? In a sunny garage or outdoors, it should be UV-stable.
• How many coats, and how thick? HomeGuide notes epoxy goes on at roughly 10 to 20 mils per coat and polyaspartic at 2 to 6 mils per coat, so the full system matters more than the product name.
• What happens to the cracks and joints?
• When can I walk on it, and when can I park?
• Is all of that in the written quote?

Good epoxy floor installers answer those without hedging. We put every answer in writing.

What Los Angeles garages hold

Garages here are rarely just for parking. We coat garages used as home gyms, workshops, laundry areas, storage for bikes and surf gear, and rooms for a second fridge. Wikipedia puts owner-occupied units at 36.3 percent of the city's housing, so a lot of people here rent or share a building. If that is you, check with your landlord, condo board or HOA before the install. We can give them the product sheets, colors and schedule in writing. Whatever the room is used for, we will match the finish to it: flake for hiding dust and adding grip, solid color for a clean workspace, metallic for a showpiece room, or a full polyaspartic system when you want the floor back in service quickly.

We work across the City of Los Angeles, from the Westside (Westwood, Century City, Sawtelle, Venice) and the Harbor area around San Pedro to South Los Angeles and the San Fernando Valley neighborhoods of Woodland Hills, Canoga Park, Encino and Tarzana. We also coat floors in nearby cities, including Pasadena, Glendale, Burbank, Santa Monica, Culver City, Beverly Hills, Inglewood, Torrance, Redondo Beach, Manhattan Beach, Long Beach, Downey, Whittier, Alhambra, Arcadia, Santa Clarita and Calabasas. Coastal jobs and Valley jobs get different scheduling and topcoat choices, so tell us where the floor is when you call.