Full-flake and textured epoxy

Epoxy garage floors in Ottawa

An epoxy floor turns bare garage concrete into a hard-wearing floor you can clean, work on and train on. New Era Flooring installs full-flake epoxy with a clear top coat, and can add texture where you want grip. The owner did his own 600 square foot garage this way and turned it into a home gym.

What it covers

Epoxy coatings on concrete floors: full-flake or lighter flake, a clear top coat and an optional textured finish.

Good for

Garages, garage gyms and other concrete floors that see hard use.

How we deliver it

New Era does the work and brings in an epoxy company we work with when a job calls for it.

Garage home gym with a black and white full-flake epoxy floor and a clear top coat
AI-generated illustration, not a New Era Flooring project photo.

Full flake or light flake?

On a full-flake floor, the whole wet coat is covered in coloured flake. Once it cures, the loose flake is scraped off and the floor gets a clear top coat. On a light-flake floor, more of the solid epoxy colour shows, with flake scattered across it.

The owner’s garage gym is a full-flake floor in black and white. We can show you both styles and help you choose colours.

Close view of full-flake epoxy with black, white and grey chips under a clear coat
AI-generated illustration, not a New Era Flooring project photo.

Is an epoxy floor slippery?

Plain epoxy can feel smooth, and smooth epoxy can be slippery. For a gym, or a garage you walk through in wet winter boots, we can give the floor a textured finish so it has grip.

The owner chose a textured full-flake floor for his own garage gym for that reason.

Garage conversion in progress, with a black marble look tile wall, green bar cabinets and a flake floor
Garage conversion in progress, with vertical pine board panelling around two windows and tools on a flake floor

Full-flake floor and wall panelling in a garage conversion

What affects the price of an epoxy floor?

The size of the floor, the condition of the concrete, how much flake you want and the colours you pick all change the price. We look at the space and quote the job, instead of quoting a flat rate per square foot.

Bare concrete garage floor cleared and ready for an epoxy coating
AI-generated illustration, not a New Era Flooring project photo.

Is epoxy right for your space?

Epoxy suits concrete floors that take a beating: garages, garage gyms and similar spaces. If the room is somewhere you will spend a lot of time barefoot, we will also talk you through other floors, such as vinyl or hardwood, so you can compare.

Tell us how you plan to use the room when you ask for a quote.

See also: hardwood and vinyl installation, garage-to-gym conversions.

How a New Era project runs

One call covers the whole job. You can hand it all to us, or keep the parts you would rather handle yourself.

Tell us about the floor

Call or send the quote form. We come out, look at the floor and what is under it, and give you a price for the work you want.

Clear the rooms your way

Move the furniture yourself, or ask us to book the professional movers we work with. They photograph each room, move everything to another room, the driveway or a storage pod, and put it back where it was. Moving is optional and priced separately.

We do the work

Floors, carpets and stairs that are staying can be covered while we work. If the job needs an electrician or a plumber, we bring in trades we work with, or work alongside yours.

Clean up and move back in

We tidy and vacuum the work area when we finish. If you want the whole home cleaned before you settle back in, ask about a deep clean, priced separately.

Each step beyond the flooring work is optional and quoted on its own.

Epoxy floor questions

Yes. We install full-flake and lighter-flake epoxy on garage concrete, with a clear top coat. When a job calls for it, we bring in an epoxy company we work with.

The wet epoxy coat is covered edge to edge in coloured flake. After it cures, the loose flake is scraped off and a clear top coat goes on.

Yes. Smooth epoxy can be slippery, so we can add a textured finish for garages and home gyms.

It depends on the size of the floor, the condition of the concrete, the amount of flake and the colours. We give you a price after seeing the space rather than a flat rate per square foot.

Yes. The owner turned his own garage into a gym with a textured full-flake epoxy floor. See our room transformations page for what else a conversion can include.

Price an epoxy floor for your garage

Tell us the size of the space, what the concrete is like now and how you want to use it.