Priced the way Epoxy Flooring work is billed
A garage floor epoxy and a concrete grind & prep don't get quoted the same way, so why would every trade? SideWRK prices Epoxy Flooring the way the work is really billed: per square foot — about $6 a square foot. Tap the work, put in the numbers, and the line prices itself — no napkin math, no undercharging a job because you rushed the quote.
What Epoxy Flooring jobs actually run
These are the starting numbers SideWRK loads for common Epoxy Flooring work — researched to be realistic, so you can send an estimate that isn't a guess. Adjust any of them to your market in a tap.
Typical starting prices in the app — your area, your materials, and your reputation move them. You set your own; these just keep you from undercharging on the first quote.
Basement / shop floor coating, priced out
Numbers only mean something on a real job, so here's how SideWRK builds the ticket on a common one:
SideWRK puts the parts on at what you actually paid — so the $1,800 of labor is what you clear, not a marked-up parts total dressed up as profit.
What moves a Epoxy Flooring price
Two Epoxy Flooring jobs that look the same on paper can be a hundred dollars apart once you're on site. Here's what actually changes the number — the things to size up before you quote:
- Slab condition — grinding and patching a cracked, oil-stained garage is most of the job before a drop of coating goes down.
- System — a one-day flake floor and a full polyaspartic build are different products at different prices.
- Moisture — a slab that tests wet needs a vapor barrier or the coating peels, and that's a real added step.
What a Epoxy Flooring job puts on the record
Every trade documents something different, and Epoxy Flooring is no exception. SideWRK captures the floor area — 1, 2, or 3-car and the rest of what your work needs on the record — the details that protect you and make the invoice stand up:
- the floor area — 1, 2, or 3-car
- the concrete condition — oil-stained, needs grinding
- the coating type — epoxy, polyaspartic, polyurea, flake
- the cure and keep-off window plus a moisture/adhesion note
Example note on a job: "Diamond-ground and patched pits before the coat; flake broadcast to full refusal — advised 24 hr before foot traffic, 72 hr before vehicles."
How to price a Epoxy Flooring job in SideWRK
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Start the job and add your work
Open a Epoxy Flooring job and tap a suggestion like "Garage floor epoxy" or "Polyaspartic 1-day coating" — the common work is already loaded, so you tap instead of type.
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Price it per square foot
Enter the numbers and the line prices itself, per square foot — about $6 a square foot. Put parts on at your cost so what you clear is real profit, not just the Epoxy Flooring ticket total.
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Note the details
Add a plain-English note — for example, "Diamond-ground and patched pits before the coat; flake broadcast to full refusal — advised 24 hr before foot traffic, 72 hr before vehicles." — and a photo of the work.
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Log what the job needs
Capture the Epoxy Flooring-specific records: the floor area — 1, 2, or 3-car, and the concrete condition — oil-stained, needs grinding.
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Send it and get paid
Send the Epoxy Flooring estimate for approval. Your customer approves from their phone, the invoice goes out, and you get paid — card or Apple Pay, on the spot.
Staying on the right side of the rules
SideWRK documents your Epoxy Flooring work — it doesn't make you licensed, and it says so plainly. What to know: manufacturer SDS handling and local disposal — keep product out of drains; a contractor license is optional in most states. The app flags the permit and license triggers so they never surprise you mid-job.
Epoxy Flooring pricing — common questions
How do I price a Epoxy Flooring job in SideWRK?
You bill per square foot — about $6 a square foot. Add the work — Garage floor epoxy, Polyaspartic 1-day coating, Flake / chip system — enter the numbers, and each line prices itself. Parts go on at your cost, so you see real profit and not just the total.
What does a typical Epoxy Flooring job cost?
It depends on the work, but as a realistic starting point a common job like basement / shop floor coating runs about $3,000 in the app — roughly $1,800 of that is your labor and about $1,200 is parts at your cost. Common Epoxy Flooring work ranges from about $320 to $3,000. Those are defaults you can change — you always set your own prices.
What does SideWRK document on a Epoxy Flooring job?
The records Epoxy Flooring work actually needs: the floor area — 1, 2, or 3-car; the concrete condition — oil-stained, needs grinding; the coating type — epoxy, polyaspartic, polyurea, flake. They stay on the job as you work, so the paper trail is built instead of reconstructed later, and the disclosures this trade needs print on the estimate and invoice themselves.
Do I need a license to do Epoxy Flooring work?
That depends on your state and the job, but here's the shape of it: manufacturer SDS handling and local disposal — keep product out of drains; a contractor license is optional in most states. SideWRK documents the work; it doesn't certify you. It flags the permit and license triggers so nothing sneaks up on you.
Does SideWRK work for trades other than Epoxy Flooring?
Yes — it runs all 42 trades, each priced and documented its own way. Every trade is included, and you switch between them in a tap.
Your first jobs
The first floor is the one you have no photo of. Finding that customer is a different problem from pricing them, and the deep-dive below is where it's worked out. What this page can tell you is what the app does on the day it finally happens, because coating is a trade that asks you to spend four figures on product before you own the job.
- The estimate is a document, not a number over the phone. Your business name sits at the top, the work reads as its own priced lines, and the customer opens it on their phone. They can't approve it without typing their name, and that name and the date then print on the estimate and on the invoice after it. On a floor that matters more than on most work: what they approved was a scope with a keep-off window inside it.
- The slab gets a record before the grinder does. This trade's property record asks for the job label and the address, then the three things a coating lives or dies on: floor area (1-car around 250 sq ft, 2-car around 450, 3-car around 650, or a basement and shop figure you type in), concrete condition (good, minor cracks and pitting, oil-stained, needs grinding), and coating type (epoxy, polyaspartic, polyurea, flake). The notes box opens by naming what else belongs in it, moisture test and oil spots and grind-versus-etch included.
- The deposit lands at yes, not at the supply house. Turn one on and, once your payouts are connected, the customer can pay it by card the moment they approve, on the same page they approved from. That's the difference between fronting a pallet of resin and being funded for it. What percentage to ask for is arithmetic, and it's worked out further down.
Where the first five floors come from is Landing Your First Epoxy Garage Floor Customers, this trade's find-work deep-dive: what to charge those floors, who should get them, and the ledger showing when the plan pays itself back. Read it before you quote anybody a favor price.
Repeat business — the next slab, not the same one
A coated floor doesn't come back. Done right it outlasts the car parked on it, which makes this an odd trade to hold customers in: you're not on a route, and there's no maintenance plan in the app for epoxy because a coating isn't a service you resell every spring. The repeat here is a second slab in the same house.
- The next floor is usually behind the first one. The floor-area picker carries "Basement or shop" for a reason, and the biggest line in the price list up the page is a basement or shop floor at $3,000, not a garage. Somebody who watched their garage turn into a showroom has a workshop, a basement, a second bay, or a patio, and they already know your number and what a cure week feels like.
- "Do this again." That's the actual button, and it sits on a finished job. It opens a fresh estimate for the same customer and the same property with the same lines at the same prices. Change the square footage, change the room name, send it. The basement quote takes a minute instead of an evening.
- One person, one message, your own phone. The customer record puts Call and Text right on it. Nothing sends from us; you are the sender. A note to one person who watched you work reads like a note to one person, which is the only reason it gets answered.
- The review ask is capped on purpose. After a job wraps, the app emails one review request and then one reminder a few days later, and that's the end of it. Two, ever. You can switch it off in Shop.
The other repeat lane in coating isn't your customer at all: it's the concrete contractor who poured the slab and the painter finishing the garage around it. The first-customers guide works that chain.
How epoxy flooring bills
One meter runs the whole trade: area times your rate. The work form on an epoxy job asks two numbers to read it, Square feet and Rate ($/sq ft), with the rate box preloaded at the researched $6 default, and the running This work = total moves while you type.
Sixty-forty is what the app assumes for this trade, and the breakdown up the page is that same split read from the other end: a $3,000 basement floor showing $1,800 of labor against $1,200 of product. That 40% isn't a bookkeeping line. It's base coating, primer, color flake and clear topcoat, bought and paid for before the customer ever sees a color. What the meter makes of the sizes the app's own picker offers:
Same multiplication every row, at the $6 default. Read the price list up the page alongside this one and its shape changes: those three garage rows aren't three sizes, they're one ordinary two-car floor in three systems, solid epoxy against flake against polyaspartic. The system moves your rate. The picker moves your area. Both have to be right before the number is. Which system belongs on a given quote, and why the grind is most of the work under any of them, is What Epoxy Garage Floor Coating Costs in 2026, this trade's cost deep-dive. Read that one to set a rate. Read this one for what the app does with the rate you set.
Two taps off the suggestion chips, each landing as its own line with its own area, going out as one estimate with one approval. Then the part that decides whether the job is survivable. At sixty-forty, roughly $2,328 of that ticket is product you buy before day one, and the deposit picker on an estimate offers waived, 10, 25, 33 or 50 percent: on $5,820 that's $582, $1,455, about $1,921, or $2,910. Only the last one covers the material bill. Choosing a deposit on a coating job isn't a preference, it's arithmetic against what you're about to hand the supply house.
Set your rate once in the shop and it prefills every epoxy job after that. The epoxy flooring app runs the three beats every trade shares, with the units relabeled so a floor is measured in floors: tap the work, send it, get paid.
Multiplying jobs
Coating has long quiet stretches built into it. The estimate goes out and the customer talks colors with a spouse for a week. The floor cures for three days with nobody allowed on it. Jobs get lost in those gaps, and the app works them so you don't have to remember to:
- You know the moment they open it. When the customer opens the estimate, your phone gets a push. If no push lands, an email comes instead, and never both.
- The quiet estimate gets a nudge. One nobody answered gets a friendly follow-up email at 3 days and again at 7, two at most, and it's a toggle you own. On a four-figure floor, the customer who meant to say yes usually just lost the thread.
- The upgrade is theirs to check. Mark a line optional in the work form and it shows on the approval page with a checkbox, the total updating live as they keep it or drop it. The polyaspartic upgrade, the extra clear coat, the apron out front: quoted once, decided by them, no follow-up call from you.
- The unpaid invoice reminds itself. A wrapped job with money still owed gets an email at 3, 7 and 14 days carrying a pay link, three at most, and that link settles by card or Apple Pay. Rather send it yourself? A payment request you send from your own phone is the other road.
- The floor sells the next floor. A before and an after upload as a single gallery item, in that order, onto your public page, and you can reorder the wall with arrows. That's the mechanism. How to shoot the pair so it actually sells is in the first-customers guide.
Price it now
The price list up the page is all-in. This calculator is the other half of the same job: it counts the product. Its rate box is labor only and opens at $2 a square foot, and it builds the material side from a real takeoff rather than a percentage. Same free tool the epoxy flooring page runs, right here:
On the 20 × 22 slab it opens with, 440 square feet in two base coats with a full flake broadcast and clear on top, it calls for nine gallons of base, forty-four pounds of flake in two boxes, and seven gallons of clear, with 12% waste already added to the liquids. Those quantities come off published coverage rates rather than a guess: base epoxy around 110 sq ft per gallon per coat, clear around 150, flake at a tenth of a pound per square foot on a full broadcast. Drop the density to partial and watch the flake bill halve.
Inside the app that same calculator opens in a sheet on the work form, with a Measure button in its bar that traces the footprint from the satellite and reloads it with that area. "Add to this estimate" then writes two lines onto the job: your labor at your rate for that area, and a Materials line at your cost with the whole takeoff attached. Tap Materials on the job afterward and the takeoff comes back as a check-off list you can copy or print for the supply run, in gallons, boxes and pounds. Or open the epoxy garage floor cost calculator on its own page and keep the numbers.
The paper worth keeping
The records list up the page says what the app captures on an epoxy job. Here's why each one earns its keep, and on this trade nearly all of it comes down to one thing: what was agreed before the grinder came off the trailer.
- The cure window, in writing, on the document they approved. Every epoxy estimate and invoice carries this trade's own notices, printed on the document itself. The first says a coating needs to cure before foot and vehicle traffic, that the window varies by product and temperature with polyaspartic curing faster than epoxy, and that you set and disclose the keep-off window. A cure window agreed in advance is a schedule. The same window explained afterward is an argument.
- Sound concrete, said out loud. The second notice states that coatings adhere to sound concrete, and that active moisture-vapor problems, spalling, or structural slab failure need addressing first because a coating can fail over them. It carries the handling side too: product and solvent handling and disposal follow the manufacturer SDS and local rules, and product stays out of drains. Telling a customer their slab needs work before it needs a color is the whole difference between a peeling floor being the concrete's problem and it being yours.
- The slab's own answers, on the record. Floor area, concrete condition, coating type, and a notes box that opens by naming the moisture test, the oil spots to prime, grind versus etch, and the cure window. Six months on, "we talked about that" is a record instead of a memory.
- The heads-up before a job gets big. Once a job clears $500 the app raises a written-contract card and tells you plainly that SideWRK doesn't provide the contract, so use your own. And when a total reaches the point the app watches with no license number on file, a caution appears carrying the rule that splitting one project across two estimates doesn't get you under a limit. Neither one blocks anything or nags. Confirming what applies to you stays yours.
- April, already done. Numbered invoices, payments, and every gallon you logged at cost roll into a year-end wrap-up: rows, category totals, CSVs, and a printable summary your preparer can use. Coating is a materials-heavy trade, which makes those receipts the difference between a guess and a deduction.
SideWRK is a documentation tool, not legal advice. It helps you keep the records; the rules stay your state's, and meeting them stays yours.