1-Car Garage Epoxy Kit

What a 1-car garage floor needs

• A base coat: EF-100 for the widest color choice, or EF-150 / EF-155 if you need a faster recoat window or are working in cooler weather. Size the number of kits from the coverage guide.
• Metallic pigment: one 160 gram pod tints one 3-gallon kit, so buy one pod per base kit
• A polyaspartic topcoat, optional but recommended: EF-275 or EF-280 seals the color coat and adds UV and abrasion resistance
• Flakes, optional: a 25 pound box covers 125 to 175 square feet at a full broadcast to rejection, so a 1-car floor takes two boxes. One box is enough for a lighter partial broadcast, which stretches to 625 to 1,250 square feet.
• Tools: a flat squeegee, an 18 inch roller, and spike shoes so you can walk the wet film

Order of work

Grind or etch the slab, vacuum it clean, then mix and pour the base coat. Spread with the squeegee, back-roll with the 18 inch roller, and broadcast flakes into the wet film if you are running a flake floor. Once the base cures, scrape and vacuum loose flake, then roll the topcoat.

Want to check the numbers against your own slab? Read the epoxy coverage guide or the contractor material takeoff walkthrough.

Common questions

How many kits does a 1-car garage take?

That depends on your target film build and on which system you are pouring, not on the square footage alone, so there is no one per-kit number that is true for every product on this page. Put your footage and your target mils into the coverage guide before you order, and add a waste cushion of about 10 percent on a smooth slab. Leftover sealed epoxy keeps. A pour that runs dry in the middle of the floor does not.

Do I need the topcoat?

The floor works without it, but a polyaspartic topcoat keeps the finish from ambering near the garage door and takes hot-tire contact and abrasion far better. Most garage installs should include one.

Related guides: epoxy vs polyaspartic if you are still deciding which layers you need, the basement floor guide if you are coating below grade as well, best epoxy for garage floors if you are still choosing a product, and what a garage floor costs to do yourself.