How Much Does Epoxy Flooring Cost in Austin, TX? (2026 Guide)
Garage floor epoxy cost, in the national price surveys, runs from $2 to $12 a square foot installed in Angi's August 2026 data and $4 to $10 installed, on average, in HomeGuide's February 2026 survey, and no survey publishes a figure for Austin. The table gives the main published rows, each with its survey, its date and its unit, all of them national. Below it are the factors the surveys name, the arithmetic for a floor of your size, what the Texas Comptroller's publications say about sales tax on residential and nonresidential work, and what our written quote lists. One gap is worth knowing first: HomeGuide's and Angi's epoxy pages print no price for a full-broadcast flake epoxy floor, the kind with chips thrown into wet resin until no resin shows, so the flake line below is an add-on, not a system price.
| What is priced | Published range (survey, date) |
|---|---|
| Epoxy flooring, installed, per square foot, on average | $4 to $10 per sq ft, national (HomeGuide, Feb 2026) |
| One-car garage, 288 to 392 sq ft, epoxy, average installed cost | $1,200 to $3,900, national (HomeGuide, Feb 2026) |
| Two-car garage, 400 to 576 sq ft, epoxy, average installed cost | $1,600 to $5,800, national (HomeGuide, Feb 2026) |
| Three-car garage, 576 to 864 sq ft, epoxy, average installed cost | $2,300 to $8,600, national (HomeGuide, Feb 2026) |
| Doing it yourself against hiring a professional, per sq ft | $2 to $5 DIY; $3 to $12 hired, national (This Old House, Mar 2026) |
| Polyaspartic floor coating, installed, per square foot | $5 to $12 per sq ft, national (HomeGuide, Nov 2024) |
| Polyurea garage floor coating, installed, per square foot | $5 to $10 per sq ft, national (HomeGuide, Sep 2025) |
| Garage floor painting, or garage floor sealing, per square foot | Paint $2 to $4; sealing $1 to $3, national (HomeGuide, Dec 2024) |
| Metallic epoxy, as printed in add-on tables (Bob Vila's table is headed materials only) | $5 to $12 per sq ft, national (Bob Vila, Apr 2024; This Old House, Mar 2026) |
| Decorative flakes, custom colors or patterns added to a polyaspartic floor | $0.50 to $2.00 per sq ft added, national (HomeGuide, Nov 2024) |
| Staining existing concrete floors, per square foot, on average | $3 to $15 per sq ft, national (HomeGuide, Feb 2026) |
| Polished concrete, basic finish against decorative, per square foot | $3 to $12 basic; $5 to $15+ decorative, national (HomeGuide, Feb 2026) |
| Concrete resurfacing, per square foot | $3 to $7 per sq ft, national (HomeGuide, Feb 2026) |
| Commercial and industrial floors, 100% solids coating, per square foot | $12 or more per sq ft, national (HomeAdvisor, Jun 2026) |
| Patching cracks or chips in an older floor, labor | $25 to $250, national (HomeAdvisor, Jun 2026) |
| Moisture testing of the slab before coating | About $50 to $300, national (HomeGuide, Nov 2024) |
What Changes the Price?
Floor size: by HomeAdvisor's June 2026 account, size drives an epoxy floor's total more than anything else, because more area takes more material and more labor. Small jobs turn that around: Bob Vila's April 2024 page notes that "some contractors require a $500 to $1,000 minimum charge," so a small room can cost more per square foot than the published rates. We measure the floor before we price it.
Coating system: Angi's August 2026 data puts the resin type beside floor size as a main driver. By the gallon, HomeGuide's national February 2026 survey prices water-based epoxy at $40 to $100 and solid epoxy at $70 to $150; installed, its November 2024 polyaspartic page shows $5 to $12 a square foot where epoxy shows $4 to $10. Which system fits is decided by the moisture reading, the heat and your deadline.
Slab repairs: Angi's August 2026 page says "If your concrete floor is cracked, chipped, or damaged, you must repair it before applying epoxy," and HomeGuide adds that widespread damage may mean resurfacing first. In the national rows, patching runs $25 to $250 (HomeAdvisor, June 2026) and resurfacing $3 to $7 a square foot (HomeGuide, February 2026). On the shrink-swell clays east of the Balcones Escarpment, crack repair is one of the steps our quote names.
Surface preparation: HomeAdvisor tells owners to budget for prep such as acid washing or etching. We grind with diamond tooling instead, since Sherwin-Williams finds that acid etching tends to leave a CSP-1 to CSP-2 profile (concrete surface profile, ICRI's roughness scale), fit only for very thin systems. Grinders need the dust collection OSHA's silica rule names, and HomeGuide notes that some application methods take more labor, and cost more, than others.
Labor: labor is 33 to 60 percent of an installed epoxy floor's total in Angi's August 2026 data and about 50 to 70 percent in HomeGuide's December 2024 garage survey. Pay in these trades runs below the national medians here: O*NET's pages, from Bureau of Labor Statistics 2025 wage data, give Austin metro painters a median of $22.38 an hour against $23.75 nationally, and cement masons $23.76 against $27.41. A wage is what a worker earns, not a price.
Decorative choices: HomeAdvisor's June 2026 page says decorative options raise the overall price, and HomeGuide's September 2025 polyurea survey says custom colors, extra flakes or chips, designs, non-slip additives or extra top coats may add 15 to 40 percent. Bob Vila's and This Old House's national add-on tables both print metallic epoxy at $5 to $12 a square foot, and Bob Vila heads its table materials only.
Three things decide a real price, and no survey sees them: the floor's measured area, a moisture reading taken by the method the coating's sheet requires, and the state of every crack, joint and old coating. We collect all three on a visit before quoting. The free written quote then lists products, steps, dates and price, and puts any moisture-mitigating primer on a separate line. Ask for a free written quote, or read our epoxy garage floor pros and cons before deciding what the floor needs.
What the surveys publish, and why none of them prices Austin
The price surveys are national, and each is a snapshot taken on its own date. The figures on this page come from HomeGuide, Angi, HomeAdvisor, Fixr, This Old House and Bob Vila, dated from April 2024 to August 2026, and Angi and HomeAdvisor say their figures come from surveys of their own customers. They disagree: a two-car garage runs $1,600 to $5,800 in HomeGuide's February 2026 table, $1,500 to $6,000 in Angi's August 2026 table, and about $5,750 to $8,625 on Fixr's January 2025 page, which assumes about 575 square feet at $10 to $15 a square foot. None prints an Austin row, and Angi's national page has no cost-by-city table at all. Read each row as one survey's national range on one date, and do not average them.
The Bureau of Economic Analysis publishes regional price parities, a price-level index for all consumption goods and services, rents included, set against a national level of 100. Its December 12, 2024 release put the Austin-Round Rock-Georgetown metro at 97.6 for all items in 2023, but at 91.9 for goods and 126.4 for housing. BEA says housing rents are often the main driver of the differences, so the housing figure says rents in the metro ran well above the national level that year; it does not tell you what a floor costs. BEA's page for that release now says its data have been superseded, and its February 19, 2026 release carries no metro table. Our Austin numbers page sets the index beside local wages.
Your floor's area times the published rates
None of these totals appears on a survey page. Each is a survey's national rate multiplied by an area, and the working is shown. HomeGuide's February 2026 rate is $4 to $10 a square foot: 144 square feet, a 12x12 room, gives 144 times $4, or $576, up to 144 times $10, or $1,440. The same rate gives $1,600 to $4,000 for a 20 by 20 garage of 400 square feet, $2,000 to $5,000 for 500 square feet, $4,000 to $10,000 for 1,000 and $8,000 to $20,000 for 2,000. This Old House's March 2026 rate for hired work, $3 to $12, puts 1,000 square feet at $3,000 to $12,000, and HomeGuide's polyaspartic rate of $5 to $12 puts it at $5,000 to $12,000.
Small floors break the multiplication, because some contractors set a floor price. Bob Vila's April 2024 page says "some contractors require a $500 to $1,000 minimum charge," and HomeAdvisor's June 2026 page, on resurfacing, adds that "Some contractors may also charge a minimum fee of $500 to $1,000." The surveys do not even agree on the size of a garage: HomeGuide's two-car row covers 400 to 576 square feet, Angi and HomeAdvisor call a two-car garage 500, This Old House and Bob Vila 360, and Fixr about 575. Measure your own floor and multiply, then expect our written quote to move with what the slab needs, which is why we test it before we price it.
How to read a quote: Texas sales tax and what ours lists
The Texas Comptroller's publication 94-116, Real Property Repair and Remodeling (dated 03/2007), sorts the work by property: "Labor to repair, remodel, or restore residential real property is not taxable." Under a lump-sum contract, one price for the whole job, the contractor pays tax on supplies and materials when buying them and does not charge the customer tax; under a separated contract, the contractor collects state and local tax on the materials charge, and the labor charge is not taxable. On nonresidential real property, and the publication's examples include restaurants, retail shops, warehouses and office buildings, the total charge is taxable, and Rule 3.357 says the contract form no longer changes that. Our commercial epoxy flooring page covers those floors.
Austin's line in the Comptroller's city table carries a total rate of 8.25 percent: the State's 6.25 percent, the City of Austin's 1 percent and 1 percent for the Austin MTA, which together reach the 2 percent local cap. The Comptroller's publication 94-105 adds that local tax on nonresidential repair follows the location of the job site. Neither publication 94-116 nor Rule 3.357 names floor coatings, so we do not tell you how your job will be taxed: the written quote states the treatment we apply, and the Comptroller or a tax professional settles any doubt. That quote also lists the products, each step, the dates and the price, separates what the price includes from what it leaves out, and shows a moisture-mitigating primer, where the slab needs one, as a separate item.
Epoxy Flooring Pricing Questions
How much does it cost to epoxy 1000 square feet of flooring?
Multiply the area by a survey's national rate: 1,000 times HomeGuide's $4 to $10 a square foot (February 2026) is $4,000 to $10,000, and 1,000 times This Old House's $3 to $12 (March 2026) is $3,000 to $12,000. Neither total is printed by the surveys; both are arithmetic. The nearest printed figure is Fixr's January 2025 basement example, which sizes an average basement at about 1,000 square feet and prices thick-coat epoxy on it at $10,000 to $15,000, against $2,000 to $4,000 for concrete paint. Commercial floors have a row of their own: HomeAdvisor puts 100% solids commercial and industrial coatings at $12 or more a square foot, and Sherwin-Williams describes 100% solids epoxies as ones that "contain no VOCs or water."
How much does a 20x20 epoxy floor cost?
A 20 by 20 floor is 400 square feet, and HomeGuide prints that exact size: its December 2024 garage floor coating survey lists a 2-car (20x20) garage at $1,600 to $4,800, national, for coatings in general. For epoxy alone, HomeGuide's February 2026 rate of $4 to $10 a square foot works out to $1,600 to $4,000, and its November 2024 polyaspartic table prints $2,000 to $4,800 for 400 square feet. A 20 by 20 slab with problems costs more: HomeGuide's polyurea page says testing may add $50 to $300, or more if the concrete needs a moisture barrier.
What is the average cost to epoxy a 2-car garage floor?
HomeAdvisor's June 2026 page sets the average epoxy floor at $2,526 and its garage installs in a normal range of $1,650 to $3,494, and Angi's August 2026 data lands on the same $2,526. The size rows spread wider. HomeGuide (February 2026): 400 to 576 square feet, $1,600 to $5,800. Angi: 500 square feet, $1,500 to $6,000. Bob Vila (April 2024): 360 square feet, about $1,100 to $4,300. All are national, and part of the spread is simply the garage size each survey assumes.
How much does it cost to epoxy a 500 square foot garage floor?
Two surveys print this exact floor: Angi (August 2026) and HomeAdvisor (June 2026) each list a 500-square-foot two-car garage at $1,500 to $6,000, national. HomeGuide's February 2026 rate of $4 to $10 a square foot works out to $2,000 to $5,000 for the same area, and its November 2024 polyaspartic table prints $2,500 to $6,000 for 500 square feet. Bob Vila's $1,500 to $2,500 for a 500-square-foot garage floor is a resurfacing price, for a separate job that comes before any coating when the slab needs it; our concrete resurfacing page explains when.
How much cheaper is a DIY epoxy kit than a professional job?
A kit costs less in materials, and preparation is where the gap shows. HomeGuide's national February 2026 survey prices premade kits at $200 to $700, and This Old House's March 2026 page puts DIY work at $2 to $5 a square foot against $3 to $12 hired, or $720 to $1,800 for a 360-square-foot two-car garage done yourself. Stonhard writes that DIY epoxy kits are made for light-duty spaces, and that floors prepared without diamond grinders or shot blasters can peel, bubble or crack. HomeGuide's polyaspartic comparison table marks polyaspartic as not DIY-friendly.
Is it worth it to epoxy your garage floor?
On cost alone it can be, when the slab tests dry and the floor has years of use ahead, because the surveys give the cheaper finishes shorter lives. Fixr's national January 2025 page prices thin-coat epoxy paint on a two-car garage at about $1,175 to $2,325, and HomeGuide's November 2024 concrete coating survey says paint lasts only 1 to 5 years, its December 2024 garage survey gives acrylic sealers 1 to 3 years and its February 2026 survey gives solid epoxy 10 to 20 years. Behr warns that its one-part floor paint may need an annual touch-up where tires run. Resale is not the reason: HomeAdvisor (June 2026) writes that epoxy floors don't raise a home's formal appraisal value.