2-Car Garage Epoxy Kit

What a 2-car garage floor needs

• Base coats: EF-100, or EF-150 / EF-155 when you need a faster recoat window. Size the number of kits from the coverage guide.
• Metallic pigment: one 160 gram pod tints one 3-gallon kit, so match pods to base kits
• A polyaspartic topcoat: EF-275 or EF-280 sized to the same footage. Topcoat coverage drops over a flake broadcast, so check the figure on the topcoat you pick before you settle the count.
• Flakes, optional: a 40 pound box covers 200 to 280 square feet at a full broadcast to rejection, so a full broadcast 2-car floor takes two boxes. One 40 pound box covers the whole floor at a partial broadcast, which runs 1,000 to 2,000 square feet.
• Tools: a flat squeegee, an 18 inch roller with spare covers, and spike shoes

Order of work

Grind or etch, vacuum, then pour and spread the base one mixed kit at a time, keeping a wet edge between batches. Back-roll, broadcast flakes into the wet film if you are running flake, and let it cure. Scrape and vacuum the rejected flake, then roll the topcoat in one continuous pass.

Check the math against your slab with the epoxy coverage guide or the contractor material takeoff walkthrough.

Common questions

How much epoxy do I need for a 2-car garage?

Work it out from the floor, not from a rule of thumb. Measure the slab, decide your target film build, and run both through the coverage guide. A thin primer pass stretches a long way, a standard solid color build uses more, and a metallic pour uses the most, so the kit count changes with the system you choose. The contractor material takeoff walks through the same math for a quote.

Can I do half the floor one weekend and half the next?

You can, but a seam line may show where the pours meet. Most installers split the work a different way: prep day one, coat day two, so each coat goes down in a single continuous pour.

Related guides: epoxy vs polyaspartic for choosing your layers, the auto shop floor guide if you actually work on cars in there, best epoxy for garage floors if you are still choosing a product, and DIY vs pro pricing for a garage floor.