Would you like to give your home a fresh new look? Have you thought about changing your floor? A beautiful epoxy floor could give your home that fresh look you’ve been looking for.
Gaining in popularity and available in a variety of designs, patterns and colors, epoxy flooring is a product in great demand among floor renovation contractors.
You can choose neutral colors, or let your creativity and imagination run wild to produce a more elaborate design by including several colors to create a completely unique decor.
- Discover our complete guide to epoxy flooring products and prices in Quebec in 2024 below!
Epoxy flooring - Products available in Quebec
When it comes to choosing the right product for your epoxy floor, it’s best to opt for a quality product that guarantees a stronger, longer-lasting surface.
Products used by professionals generally contain between 90% and 100% solids by volume. Lower-quality products contain only 30% to 40% solids by volume.
As a result, the surface will be thinner and offer far less lasting protection than professional products.
- Choose a quality product, because you'll get a much stronger floor than if you skimp on quality. Installation by experienced professionals will ensure an impeccable floor.
You can get 3 free quotes for the installation of epoxy flooring in your garage, basement or kitchen.
Simply fill out our form and you’ll receive proposals from 3 epoxy flooring contractors in your area within 48 hours.
Clear epoxy flooring
Clear epoxy is a transparent coating generally used to cover concrete surfaces. It's a durable finish that will withstand most liquids and chemicals without staining. A splashed surface can be easily cleaned with mild soap and warm water. However, if the clear epoxy floor gets wet, either with water or slush, for example if you pull your car into the garage in winter, it can be quite slippery, making it less than ideal for covering a garage floor. What's more, it can be damaged more quickly if it comes into contact with certain abrasives. Sand and salt lodged in tires could prematurely damage your new epoxy garage floor.
Opaque epoxy and metal flooring
If you're looking for a floor with extraordinary aesthetic appeal, plain opaque epoxy or metallic epoxy are the choices for maximum personalization. A multitude of colors are available, and you can choose the shade that best matches the room's decor. It's possible to create patterns that are each more aesthetically pleasing than the last, for example, beautiful marbled patterns including shades of gray and white. Like clear epoxy, opaque and metallic epoxies are waterproof and won't let water penetrate below the surface. Nevertheless, the wet surface will be slippery, so if you're installing it in the kitchen, you might want to add a mat in front of the sink to avoid a nasty fall.
Tip
Aluminum oxide can be added to the top coat to make the epoxy floor less slippery. Grit size can be adjusted to suit the room's use.
For opaque epoxy, several shades are available, from white epoxy to yellow, green, blue, red, grey and black.
Metallic epoxy shades are much richer and more nuanced, and it’s easy to see why they’re a little more expensive.
Epoxy Flooring Prices - Factors that have an impact
The price of an epoxy floor can vary from $3 to $8 per square foot. As you can see, a number of factors will affect the total cost of your bill. Here are some of them:
- Epoxy quality. Don't forget to choose an epoxy with solids by volume of 90% or more.
- The surface to be covered. The larger the surface to be covered, the more epoxy you'll need to cover it. An epoxy kitchen floor will cost you less than a double garage.
- The thickness of the epoxy layer. If you simply want an epoxy coating to protect your floors, a layer of less than 2 mm may be sufficient to ensure floor protection. But, if you want an epoxy floor, you'll need to spread a layer thicker than 2 mm to ensure sufficient strength and superior durability.
- The cost of labor. For truly expert work, it's advisable to hire specialists in the field. To achieve a beautiful epoxy floor, preparation of the surface on which the epoxy will be installed is crucial. If preparation is neglected, you won't get the desired result, and you'll probably have to call in a team of professionals to take over your work.
If you would like to have a better idea of the cost of your epoxy project, fill in the form on this page. This will enable you to receive fully personalized quotesfrom specialists in your area who are available to do the work, whether it’s for your kitchen, your epoxy basement or your garage.
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Epoxy Flooring Price Table by Area and Price per P2 |
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Area |
Price at $3/square foot |
Price at $5/square foot |
Price at $8/square foot |
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Garage 10 x 12 |
360$ |
600$ |
960$ |
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Garage 12 x 18 |
648$ |
1 080$ |
1 728$ |
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Garage 12 x 20 |
720$ |
1 200$ |
1 920$ |
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Garage 16 x 24 |
1 152$ |
1 920$ |
3 072$ |
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Basement 500 p2 |
1 500$ |
2 500$ |
4 000$ |
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Basement 1000 p2 |
3 000$ |
5 000$ |
8 000$ |
Epoxy garage floor - What are the advantages?
Epoxy on your garage floor will act as a protective layer for your original floor, whether concrete or metal.
Epoxy is impervious to water, but also to oil and gasoline. This means your garage’s epoxy floor won’t get stained if you’re used to doing maintenance work on your vehicles. It is also resistant to chemical splashes.
Thanks to the seamless finish, dirt won’t be able to embed itself in the floor’s cracks. The surface is easy to clean with a simple degreasing cleaner.
If your garage is your favorite place for heavy-duty work, your epoxy floor won’t be damaged any time soon, since it has excellent abrasion resistance.
In this case, you’ll need to ensure that the epoxy is at least 2 mm thick. Indeed, if the epoxy surface is thinner than 2 mm, it will only be a coating and will not be as resistant.
The thicker the epoxy surface, the more resistant your floor will be.
Epoxy Garage Flooring - Have you heard of Polyurea?
You’ll be able to get a floor to suit your tastes, since epoxy is customizable. You’ll be able to choose from a huge selection of colors, and if it’s a commercial garage, you can even have your logo integrated, or add a design you like.
However, the most recommended product for a garage floor is polyurea. Polyurea offers a number of additional advantages over epoxy.
- It is more resistant to heat: think of your tires in hot weather;
- It has exceptional durability: we're talking 30 years and more;
- It's more flexible, and mimics the movement of concrete during freezing and thawing (an undeniable advantage in unheated garages);
- It is more resistant to scratches and abrasion;
- Polyurea takes less time to dry;
- It is more expensive than epoxy.
Epoxy kitchen flooring - For an easy-to-clean kitchen
If you’re tired of seeing your old ceramic tiles in your kitchen, you should know that it’s possible to install epoxy without having to remove the old tiles. All you have to do is seal the joints and make sure the floor is level, then the epoxy can be applied.
Your new epoxy kitchen floor will be much easier to cleanIt’s seamless, so there’s no dirt to track in. Soap and water will do the trick. You won’t need to use special products to restore the original color of your ceramic joints, or scrub them for hours.
Another advantage of epoxy flooring in the kitchen is its impermeability. Mold and mildew won’t grow on it, because epoxy flooring is completely waterproof.
As epoxy is a flexible material, it won’t be damaged if you drop pans. Nor will it be stained if you spill oil, even hot oil, as it is resistant to such spills.
In terms of aesthetics, you can choose from several colors and patterns, depending on whether you want a plain kitchen floor or one that stands out from the crowd. You could opt for a solid color or metallic colors that will give your floor a unique depth.
You can also choose between a matte or gloss finish (as in the image above), depending on the finish you want to achieve.
Basement epoxy flooring - The ideal surface for young and old alike
Basements are often gathering places for the whole family. You want a hard-wearing floor that will last a long time. Epoxy flooring is ideal for the basement playroom and living room.
It is much less fragile than floating floor and will last much longer. Your children won’t scratch it easily, even after hours and hours of playing with their little cars.
Here are just a few of the advantages of an epoxy basement floor:
Thanks to its easy-to-clean surface, you’ll save time on family room maintenance.
Epoxy’swaterproofing properties make it the perfect material for basements, which are often wetter than upstairs rooms. As a result, mold and mildew won’t grow there, unlike on a carpeted floor.
The floor will be more comfortable than a concrete floor, which can get very cold in winter.
Since epoxy is highly customizable, you can choose from a plethora of colors and patterns to make your basement unique.
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