About EpoxyTimes

EpoxyTimes is run by Nick Shushan, a New York flooring contractor with roughly 25 years in the trade, most of it in hardwood. He moved into epoxy in 2019, installed the floors himself, and has since stopped. Today he advises rather than taking work, which is the whole point of this site: he has nothing left to sell you. We publish the real numbers, explain every coating without an agenda, and list only installers whose licenses check out.

Reviewed by Nick Shushan, founder. Last updated: August 31, 2026.

Why trust a floor site run by a man who sold floors

Most flooring advice comes from someone who wants the job. Mine does not, and that is the whole reason to read it.

I spent most of my career in hardwood, twenty years of it running my own floor business in New York, sanding and laying board in brownstones and walk-ups across the city. Epoxy found me. Both my own customers and other contractors in the wood trade kept asking me about it, for the spaces wood could never solve, a garage, a basement, a shop floor. Enough people asked that I went and learned the trade, and in 2019 I started an epoxy flooring business in New York, NYC Epoxy Flooring. I have poured these floors. I have ground more slabs than I care to remember. I know what a quote is hiding because I used to write it.

Then I stopped taking the work. Today I advise rather than install. That is the arc that makes this site worth your time. I did the job, so I know it from the inside. I no longer sell it, so I have no reason to point you anywhere but the truth. When I tell you a cheaper system is enough, or that your living room should have wood and not epoxy, there is no sale behind it. I have nothing left to sell you.

Why I built this

What I found when I got inside the epoxy trade is what put this site here. A homeowner collecting three quotes has no way to tell which one is fair. The prices swing by a factor of three for what looks like the same job. Every company pitches its own system as the only right answer. And the review sites that are supposed to sort it out rank whoever pays them.

I have seen what the confusion costs. Too many homeowners had no idea what to pick, so they picked wrong, and I was the one who got called in to fix it. Some of those floors could not be patched or recoated. We tore out everything, down to and including the concrete, and started over. The wrong system on the wrong slab is not a small mistake.

I got into epoxy because people had questions nobody was answering straight. That is still the job.

What EpoxyTimes is, and what it is not

EpoxyTimes is an advisor, not a vendor. We do not sell floors and we do not install them. The page has no incentive to talk you into a more expensive system, because we do not profit from the one you choose.

• Every coating is explained without an agenda. Where a system is the wrong call for you, we say so and tell you what to pick instead. Every recommendation on the site carries its honest drawback.
• No installer pays to be listed. Placement on a directory is license verification and criteria, nothing else. Nobody buys a rank.
• We do not sell floors, and no company can buy a place or a rank on this site.

What we own, disclosed plainly

Here is the part most sites would bury. My partner and I also operate lead generation businesses in New York and Boston that connect homeowners with flooring contractors. Those businesses never appear in these rankings, and no installer’s placement here is affected by whether they work with us. They do not hold the installer license the directory verifies, because they do not do the work, so they are not listed at all. That is separation, not a disclaimer. We would rather leave money on the table than rank our own business on a page whose whole promise is that nobody buys a spot. If you ever find one of our companies listed in a ranking on this site, we have broken our own rule, and you should stop trusting the rest.

How we verify installers

We check every company against its government license registry before it goes on a list, and we publish the full license number and the date we checked it. A masked license number is evasive, so we never show one. A lapsed, suspended, or missing license is an automatic exclusion, and we name the companies we excluded and the reason. That excluded list is the thing no self-published “best in city” page will ever print. You can see how it works on the installer directory, and if you already have a quote in hand, you can have me check it against what the job should actually cost.

How we price

Every price on this site comes from one place, a rate card grounded in what these floors actually cost, from the years I spent pricing and installing them, and checked against what each metro pays for labor. There is no mystery dataset and no invented sample size behind it, and you will not see a page here bragging about a number of installs it cannot show you. What there is: a number that never gets typed into a page by hand, which is why the figure in a cost guide matches the figure in the quote tool and the figure on a city page every time.

The rate card carries the thing most quote tools hide: your price is set by your concrete, not by the finish you pick. A cracked or damp slab can change the job more than any color choice, and no coating fixes a slab problem. That is why the quote tool asks about your slab before it asks about the look, and why the honest order is to test first and choose second.

My most-repeated advice:

The floor you are buying is not the coating. It is the eight hours of prep before the coating goes down. Judge every bid on how they prep the slab, not on the color chart.

Where this is going

The job has not changed since the first homeowner asked me a question nobody would answer straight. Publish the real numbers. Verify the licenses. Say the honest thing even when it costs a click. As we add cities and coatings, that is the standard everything on this site is held to.

How to tell an advisor from a salesperson

You do not have to take my word that this site is neutral. You can test any contractor, including any company we list, with three questions. The answers tell you almost everything.

• Ask how they prep the slab. The right answer is diamond grinding or shot blasting. If the answer is acid etch, be careful, because skipped prep is the single most common reason a floor peels later.
• Ask what the quote includes. Prep, crack repair, the coating, the topcoat, and cleanup should all be named. A number with no breakdown is a number you cannot compare.
• Ask for the license number, then check it yourself on the state registry. A contractor who hesitates here has told you something. If you would rather not do it alone, send me the quote and I will look.

And if you get to watch a crew work before you sign, watch whether they grind before they coat. A crew that rolls product straight onto a swept slab is showing you how the floor will end. Real prep is loud, dusty, and takes hours.

Frequently asked questions

Does EpoxyTimes sell epoxy flooring? No. We do not sell floors, materials, or installations. We publish pricing and verification so you can judge the quotes you get from the people who do.

Do installers pay to be on your lists? No. Nobody pays for placement or for a higher rank. A company earns a spot by passing license verification and the published criteria, and nothing else moves it.

How does EpoxyTimes make money? No company can buy a listing, a rank, or a price on this site, and we do not sell floors. My partner and I do operate lead generation businesses in New York and Boston that connect homeowners with flooring contractors. Those are separate from EpoxyTimes: they never appear in these rankings, and no installer’s placement here is affected by them. The ownership disclosure above says it plainly.

Who writes and reviews the content? Nick Shushan, founder, reviews every article on the site. Each one carries his byline and the date it was last updated, so you can see how current it is.

How do you verify installers? We look each company up in its government license registry, publish the full license number and the date we checked, and exclude anyone lapsed, suspended, or missing from the registry. The excluded companies are named with the reason.

Do you own any flooring businesses? Yes, and we keep them off the site. My partner and I operate lead generation businesses in New York and Boston. They do not do installation work, so they do not hold the license the directory verifies, and they never appear in any ranking here. We keep our own companies off the list entirely rather than rank ourselves on a page that promises nobody buys a spot.

Floors are the heart of the space

That is how I have thought about this work for a career, on both sides of the trade. A floor is not a commodity you buy by the square foot. It is the thing you stand on every day, and getting it right is worth the hour it takes to understand the quote in front of you. That is all this site is for.

How this page is maintained

EpoxyTimes is written and reviewed by Nick Shushan, founder, a New York flooring contractor with roughly 25 years in flooring, most of it in hardwood, working in epoxy since 2019. Pricing is drawn from the site rate card and reviewed against current metro labor data. Installer verification is redone on the day a directory publishes, not the day it was researched. This page was last updated on August 31, 2026.