Epoxy Flooring by Space

The same coating that is the right answer in a garage is the wrong one on a driveway, and the reason is never the epoxy. It is the slab underneath and what happens to it: sun, water, road salt, vehicle weight, moisture from below. This section of the EpoxyTimes Learning Center goes space by space and tells you where a coating earns its price and where I would spend the money on something else.

The spaces, and what drives each one

Prices below are per square foot for a standard install on a sound slab, from the EpoxyTimes rate card. The number moves with your slab condition and your metro, which is what the calculator is for.

• Garages, $6 to $8 per square foot. The biggest use case and the one epoxy is built for, as long as the coating is thick enough to survive hot tires. See the garage cost breakdown.
• Basements, $6 to $9 per square foot. A good fit when the slab is dry, and a coating failure waiting to happen when it is not. The moisture test decides everything here. See the basement cost guide.
• Kitchens, $7 to $10 per square foot. Seamless and cleanable, but wet slip is the catch, and most homeowners are better served by tile or vinyl unless they have a specific reason.
• Patios and pool decks, $7 to $10 per square foot. Standard epoxy fails outdoors because it yellows in UV. The systems worth paying for here are polyaspartic or a UV-stable topcoat.
• Driveways, $8 to $12 per square foot. The hardest residential application there is, and most of the time I tell people not to coat one.
• Bathrooms. Seamless and waterproof with no grout, but the same wet-slip problem as kitchens, only worse. A grit topcoat is not optional.

Full-length guides for each space are publishing now and will link from here as they go live. Every price on the site reads from one rate card, so the number in a guide matches the calculator and the cost pages.

How to choose

• Daily-driver garage: a thick flake or polyaspartic build over a ground slab. Cost lives in the garage guide.
• Dry basement: solid or flake epoxy, after a moisture test.
• Anything outdoors or sun-exposed: not plain epoxy. Read epoxy versus polyaspartic.
• Wet room, kitchen or bath: only with a grit-textured topcoat, and honestly compare it to tile first.

Whatever the space, the floor lives or dies on prep, not on the label. Read how long epoxy lasts and the honest disadvantages of epoxy before you decide, then price your floor or have me check a quote.

How this page is maintained

Written and reviewed by Nick Shushan, founder of EpoxyTimes, a flooring contractor with roughly 25 years in the trade, most of it in hardwood in New York, working in epoxy since 2019. Prices come from the site rate card. Last updated September 4, 2026.