Flake Epoxy Garage Floors
The speckled finish that hides small slab flaws, with a first-light schedule for a 97-degree July and a price table for one-, two- and three-car garages.
Typically from $5/sq ft
Garage floors and business floors · Epoxy and polyaspartic coatings
Epoxy Floors Field Clovis Epoxy Garage Floors and Commercial Floors in Clovis, CA
Epoxy Floors Field Clovis is a local guide and availability check for epoxy and polyaspartic floors in Clovis — flake, solid-color and metallic coatings in garages from the older streets around Old Town to the newer northeast neighborhoods, and floors for shops, kitchens, showrooms, gyms and clinics near Herndon Avenue and Highway 168. See a typical price for your own square footage, how the systems compare, what a Central Valley summer means for a work day, and whether a local coating installer has openings for your ZIP yet.
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- Typical Clovis area prices per square foot, garage or business
- Honest comparisons: epoxy, polyaspartic, polyurea
- Every neighborhood in the Clovis area
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Epoxy and polyaspartic floors for Clovis garages
Four systems, one prep method: every garage floor starts with a ground, repaired and moisture-checked slab.
Polyaspartic Garage Floors
The faster-curing, more UV-stable top coat, with a plain look at its short working time in valley heat and a cure timeline to hold an installer to.
Typically from $6/sq ft
Solid-Color Epoxy Garage Floors
The entry-level professional coating, one flat color with grit where grip matters, plus five questions that settle whether a kit is worth a Saturday in July.
Typically from $3/sq ft
Metallic Epoxy Garage Floors
The showpiece garage floor, built from a base color, metallic pigment and a clear coat, with cost, care and the hot-pour caveat up front.
Typically from $8/sq ft
Garage Floor Prep and Crack Repair
The step that decides how long a coating lasts, from the moisture test on a young slab to filled cracks and a clean, dust-free garage.
Typically from $1/sq ft
Garage Floor Coating Removal and Recoating
A symptom-to-cause table for failed garage floors in valley heat, the removal methods and what taking off the old coat adds per square foot.
Typically from $1/sq ft
What typical projects look like and what they cost
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Worked case: a three-car flake epoxy garage on a young tract slab in Harlan Ranch, custom blend and moving included
Typical total $3,750–$6,300
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Worked case: removing an old coating and treating oil and damp spots in a two-car garage near Old Town, then polyaspartic flake
Typical total $3,850–$7,500
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Worked case: a one-car solid-color epoxy garage in Loma Vista, hairline cracks repaired and the contents moved
Typical total $1,110–$2,320
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Worked case: a 4,000-square-foot warehouse unit in Yosemite Business Park, aisles striped and the work phased
Typical total $12,300–$28,900
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Worked case: an 1,800-square-foot retail showroom floor in the Sierra Vista Mall district, joints filled and work in zones
Typical total $11,200–$22,800
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Worked case: a 700-square-foot restaurant kitchen in urethane cement with a coved base, Old Town Clovis
Typical total $9,200–$17,200
Hypothetical typical projects. Pictures are AI-generated concept illustrations, not photos of completed installations; no installation was performed or arranged through this site; prices are typical Clovis area market ranges, not quotes.
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Garage or business, size, system and slab, one question at a time; the total updates as you go.
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Commercial floors, one page per kind of business
A warehouse aisle, a restaurant kitchen and a showroom want different systems. Each kind has its own page with a zone-to-system table, a downtime plan and the questions to ask a contractor.
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Warehouse Floor Coating
Aisle, dock and joint planning for warehouse and light-industrial floors in Clovis, with a sample budget and a section on valley heat at the door.
Often considered Solid-color epoxy with grit
Typically from $3 per sq ft
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Commercial Kitchen Flooring
Urethane cement and epoxy options for Clovis kitchens, with cove costs and a plain-language walk through the county plan check.
Often considered Urethane cement (heat and washdown areas)
Typically from $10 per sq ft
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IllustrationAuto Shop Floor Coating
What goes where in a Clovis repair shop — bay, lift area, wheel zone and wash corner, with fluid cautions and a three-bay budget.
Often considered Solid-color epoxy with grit
Typically from $3 per sq ft
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Retail and Showroom Epoxy Floors
Floor finishes for Old Town shop fronts and the stores around Sierra Vista Mall, with notes on glare, old slabs and working around opening hours.
Often considered Decorative flake (chip) epoxy
Typically from $6 per sq ft
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IllustrationGym Floor Coating
Which gym areas suit a resin coat and which suit rubber, with wet-area notes, a heat plan and a two-zone budget.
Often considered Decorative flake (chip) epoxy
Typically from $6 per sq ft
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IllustrationClinic Floor Coating
Seamless floors for Clovis doctor, dentist and veterinary suites, with cleaning-chemical, odor and phasing notes.
Often considered Solid-color epoxy with grit
Typically from $3 per sq ft
Price a business floor Each kind of floor has its own page under Commercial floors in the menu.
Four garage coating systems, in cross-section
Every garage system is a stack: a ground slab, a primer, a base coat, color flake or pigment and a top coat. The stack decides how it looks and how it wears; each diagram shows the layers in order.
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Flake (chip) epoxy
- Concrete slab
- Ground surface
- Primer
- Epoxy base and flake
- Clear top coat
Fits Fits a typical two-car garage where hiding small slab flaws and getting some texture matter more than a showroom shine.
Typically $5–$8 per sq ft about $2,000–$3,200 for 400 sq ft, installed
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Polyaspartic flake
- Concrete slab
- Ground surface and primer
- Epoxy base with flake
- Polyaspartic top coat
- Sun-facing surface
Fits Fits a garage whose door faces the afternoon sun, where a more UV-stable top coat and a short return-to-service time are worth the extra per square foot.
Typically $6–$10 per sq ft about $2,400–$4,000 for 400 sq ft, installed
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Solid-color epoxy
- Concrete slab
- Ground surface
- Primer
- Pigmented epoxy coat
- Grit in the top coat
Fits Fits a workshop, a storage garage or any budget job where a clean single color is enough, with grit added where grip matters.
Typically $3–$6 per sq ft about $1,200–$2,400 for 400 sq ft, installed
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Metallic epoxy
- Concrete slab
- Ground surface and primer
- Dark base coat
- Metallic pigment layer
- Clear top coat
Fits Fits a garage used as a show-car room or a gym, where the swirl pattern is the point and the owner accepts more care in cleaning.
Typically $8–$12 per sq ft about $3,200–$4,800 for 400 sq ft, installed
From a bare slab to a cured floor, in six steps
Empty and inspectEverything comes off the floor, then the slab is measured and walked for cracks, oil, old paint, damp spots and the saw cuts that were made when it was poured.
Grind it openA diamond grinder with a dust shroud and a vacuum takes the surface down to an even, rough profile; an acid etch alone leaves a shallower grip.
Repair and testCracks and chips are filled and ground flush, and the slab is checked for moisture, because a young slab can look dry well before it is.
Lay the base coatPrimer and a pigmented base go down while the slab is cool enough to work, which in a Clovis summer usually means the early morning.
Broadcast and sealFlakes are thrown into the wet base by hand, the loose ones are scraped off, and a clear top coat locks in the rest and sets the sheen.
Cure to the data sheetFeet go back first and tires later, each after the time the product data sheet gives for that day's temperature and humidity.
Valley heat, dust and young slabs
A Clovis summer decides when a coating job can happen. Afternoons are hot enough that products with a short working time have to be mixed and rolled in the morning, and the same hot, dry air carries dust into open garages. Many garage slabs here are also young, because the city grew by about 24,500 residents between 2010 and 2020, much of it in tract neighborhoods in the northeast.
| Months | Typical weather | What it means for a coating |
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| June–September | Hot and dry: mean highs of 97°F in July and 95°F in August | Installers favor first-light starts; fast-cure products have less working time by midday, and a slab that warms through the day affects outgassing and bubbling |
| October–November | Highs ease off and nights cool | A workable window; the slab runs cool at dawn and warm by afternoon, so installers still check its temperature and the dew point |
| December–February | Cool nights, with a January mean low of 32°F | A cold slab cures slowly, so return times move toward the longer end of the data sheet; installers watch the overnight low |
A garage floor in the valley collects fine dust, and a rough or flaked surface holds some of it. A sealed, coated floor is easier to sweep and wipe than bare concrete, and the choice of grit or flake is a trade between grip and how easily the surface cleans. Dust in the air is also a reason the garage is cleaned before the base coat, because anything that lands in a wet coat stays there.
A tract-home slab may be only months old when the first owner thinks about a floor. Coating manufacturers advise waiting at least 28 days after the pour, and in some conditions as long as 60. Age alone does not decide it: a slab can be cured and still hold too much moisture for a coating, so a moisture test, ideally in-slab humidity probes, matters more than the calendar. The system being installed sets the moisture level it will tolerate. Where a homeowners association covers the neighborhood, the CC&Rs may address contractor parking, working hours and how long a garage door stays open; the association, not this site, decides what applies.
Before a valley garage is coated
- Slab age
- Ask how old the slab is and whether a curing compound or sealer from the builder is still on it; it comes off before grinding
- Moisture
- Ask which test is used and what it read; a slab can be past 28 days and still read wet
- Start time
- Ask what time the base coat goes down and how the slab temperature is checked that day
- Dust
- Ask how the garage is cleaned and closed off before the coats go on
- Association
- If there is one, check the CC&Rs for parking, work hours and open-door limits and send the management company a short note
- Cure
- Plan where the cars stay until the data sheet's return time has passed
General guidance from public climate records and coating-maker advice, not measured data for a specific slab; the product data sheet and the association decide what applies.
Try flake colors on screen
Pick a base color and two to four flake colors. The swatches show the same mix as a full broadcast, where the flakes hide the base completely, and as a partial broadcast, where the base shows between them.
On-screen approximation; ask for a physical sample board.
- $1,000California's limit for work without a contractor license; most coating jobs are above it
- 43,954housing units in Clovis at the 2020 census
- 97°Fmean July high; August averages 95°F
- 28 daysthe usual minimum age of a new slab before coating, and often longer
Epoxy, polyaspartic, polyurea or a hybrid?
Each product argues for itself, so here are the trade-offs side by side. Polyaspartic is one kind of polyurea; many garage systems use an epoxy base with a polyaspartic top coat. Ranges are the typical Clovis prices from the estimator on this page.
| System | UV and yellowing | Install speed | Odor and cure | Estimator range, per sq ft | Typical weak spot |
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| Epoxy base and epoxy top coat | Can amber in sunlight, noticeable with the door open | Longer working time; often several days before a car | Strong odor while curing; slower cure | $3–$8 solid or flake | Hot-tire pickup and yellowing on thin, poorly prepped floors |
| Epoxy base and polyaspartic top coat (hybrid) | Top coat is generally more UV-stable | Often a day or two, depending on the product | Odor while curing; return time set by the data sheet | $6–$10 polyaspartic flake | The bond to the slab, so it depends on the grind |
| Polyaspartic or polyurea throughout | Generally UV-stable | Many systems install in one day | Strong odor in the first days; very short working time in heat | $6–$12 depending on system | Short pot life; sensitive to a damp slab |
| Metallic epoxy with a clear top coat | Depends on the clear coat chosen | Skilled application, several days | Same cure rules as epoxy | $8–$12 | Shows scratches; the swirl pattern cannot be repeated |
Values are general product behavior, not a promise; the data sheet of the named product and the day's temperature and humidity decide. Market estimates, not a quote.
Neighborhoods and business districts covered
Epoxy Floors Field Clovis covers Old Town Clovis, Harlan Ranch, Loma Vista, Sierra Vista Mall district, Dry Creek Business Park, Research & Technology Park, Yosemite Business Park — pick your neighborhood from the menu for local details and ZIP codes.
Old Town ClovisA railroad-era center with restored storefronts on Clovis Avenue
Harlan RanchA planned northeast neighborhood near Shepherd Avenue and Highway 168
Loma VistaA newer neighborhood near Ashlan and Leonard Avenues
Sierra Vista Mall districtRetail and services around a 78-acre enclosed shopping center
Dry Creek Business ParkA business park north of Herndon Avenue, expanded with 44 lots
Research & Technology ParkA 180-acre park with a described expansion near Highway 168
Yosemite Business ParkA multi-tenant industrial complex from 1985 near the airport
Before you sign: ten lines every written quote should show
A quote that lists these lines can be compared with the next one. A quote that does not is hard to compare.
- How the slab is prepared: diamond grinding or etching, and to what texture
- How cracks and spalls are repaired, and what happens at joints
- The moisture test used and its result, or why none was done
- The primer, base coat, flake or pigment, and top coat, each named
- Film thickness in mils and the number of coats
- Full or partial flake broadcast
- Stem walls, steps and other add-ons, each priced on its own line
- Cure and return-to-service times for foot traffic and vehicles
- Who handles moving the contents, and on which day
- The written warranty terms, if any: who pays labor, what is excluded, whether it transfers
Warranty terms are set by the installer and by the coating manufacturer; ask what is covered (peeling, hot-tire pickup, UV yellowing), for how long, and whether the prep is part of it.
Epoxy floor questions, answered
How much does an epoxy garage floor cost in Clovis?
Market ranges for 2026 run about $5–$8 per square foot for full-broadcast flake epoxy, $6–$10 for polyaspartic flake, $3–$6 for solid color and $8–$12 for metallic, installed on a sound slab. A two-car garage of about 400 square feet therefore lands around $2,000–$3,200 for flake. A price guide for Clovis lists $6–$9 per square foot for epoxy in general. Cracks, an old coating to remove or a damp slab add $1–$4 per square foot. These are market estimates, not quotes.
How much does it cost per square foot for a commercial epoxy floor?
Typical commercial ranges are $3–$7 for solid-color epoxy with grit, $6–$12 for decorative flake, $8–$15 for quartz broadcast and $10–$18 for urethane cement used in kitchens and washdown areas. Small jobs, coved bases and slab repairs move the price; the business path of the estimator adds each line.
Is epoxy or polyaspartic better for a garage?
Neither wins everywhere. Epoxy works well as a base coat because it bonds to a ground slab and has a longer working time; polyaspartic top coats are generally more UV-stable and cure faster. Many garages use an epoxy base with a polyaspartic top coat. The table above lists the trade-offs.
Does valley heat matter when coating a garage floor?
Yes. A hot slab and hot air shorten the working time of fast-curing products and can cause bubbles or pinholes as the slab warms. Installers tend to start early and check the slab temperature; the time of day is a fair question for a quote.
How soon can a new house's garage floor be coated?
Manufacturers commonly advise at least 28 days after the pour, and up to 60 in some conditions. Age is not the test: a slab can be cured and still hold too much moisture, so a moisture test decides, and the data sheet of the chosen system names the limit.
Why do garage floor coatings peel?
Usually the slab was not opened up enough, was damp, or was oily when coated. Acid etching alone is a weaker bond than diamond grinding. The removal and prep pages list the other causes.
How long before a car can drive on a new floor?
It depends on the system, the temperature and the humidity. Many polyaspartic systems can be installed in one day, and foot traffic usually resumes the next day. Vehicles return after the time on the product's data sheet, often 24 hours to several days; epoxy systems usually take longer.
Is a coated garage floor easier to keep clean of dust?
A sealed floor is easier to sweep and wipe than bare concrete. Texture from flake or grit holds some dust, so the amount of grit is a choice between grip and ease of cleaning.
Is an epoxy floor slippery when wet?
A coated floor can be slippery when wet or oily. Broadcast flake and a fine grit added to the top coat add texture and grip; a heavier grit adds more grip and is harder to clean, so the amount is a choice between the two.
Do hot tires damage an epoxy floor?
Hot-tire pickup — a warm tire lifting the coating — is mostly a prep and product problem. A ground slab and a system rated for it reduce the risk.
What does a restaurant kitchen floor have to satisfy?
In California, floors in food facilities must be smooth, durable, nonabsorbent and easily cleanable, with a coved base where floor meets wall. The Fresno County Department of Public Health, Environmental Health reviews plans for new or remodeled food facilities and inspects them. The kitchen page lists the questions to ask.
Can a shop or warehouse stay open during the job?
Often, in phases. Commercial installs are usually scheduled after hours, on weekends or one zone at a time. The downtime guide and the business path of the estimator include a schedule flag for the contractor.
Is a DIY epoxy kit worth it for a garage?
Kits cost less but typically give a thinner film and need a rented grinder and careful moisture handling. The solid-color page compares a kit with a professional job line by line.
Does this site install floors?
No. Installers featured here are independent businesses. The installer's legal name and business details are published on this site before bookings open.
Which neighborhoods does this site cover?
Garages and businesses across Clovis — Old Town, Harlan Ranch, Loma Vista and the business districts near Herndon Avenue and Highway 168 among them. The availability check shows whether bookings are open for a ZIP.