Epoxy Floor Coatings

Epoxy & Resinous Floor Coatings

A floor that outlives the slab under it.

Garage, basement, warehouse, showroom — Sonny’s installs flake, quartz, metallic, and solid-color epoxy systems across Washington, DC and Maryland. The coating is the easy part. What decides whether your floor lasts fifteen years or peels in one winter is the prep underneath it, and that is where most of our work goes.

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Five systems

Pick the system for the room, not the photo

These finishes behave differently underfoot, wear differently, and cost differently to install. We will tell you which one belongs in your space even when it is not the one you saw online.

Workhorse

Flake broadcast

Vinyl chips broadcast into a wet base coat, then locked under clear urethane. The default choice for garages and basements, and the one we install most.

  • Hides slab imperfections and old repairs
  • Texture gives real slip resistance when wet
  • 127 stocked blends, 1/8″ and 1/4″ chip
  • Hot-tire resistant when built as a full system

Heavy duty

Quartz broadcast

Ceramic-coated quartz sand instead of vinyl chip. It builds a thicker, denser floor with a much finer grain, and it is what commercial jobs are usually specified in.

  • Kitchens, locker rooms, healthcare, food service
  • Best slip resistance of any system here
  • 41 stocked colors in warm and cool neutrals
  • Takes heavier traffic and hot washdown

Showpiece

Metallic

Translucent metallic pigment moved through a clear resin while it cures, so the floor marbles and pools. No two are alike — including yours and the one you saw.

  • Best in showrooms, retail, finished basements
  • Smooth finish — add anti-slip for wet areas
  • 49 pigments plus 9 ready-made pairings
  • Not our first pick for a working shop floor

Industrial

Solid color

100% solids epoxy in one opaque color. No movement, no pattern — a clean, uniform deck that takes line striping and safety markings.

  • Warehouses, mechanical rooms, commercial kitchens
  • Safety colors match striping conventions
  • Easiest to touch up and re-coat later
  • Tints quoted per job

Minimal

Polished & sealed concrete

Sometimes the right answer is no coating at all. If your slab is sound and you like the concrete, we grind, densify, and seal it instead.

  • Nothing to delaminate — it is the slab
  • Lowest lifetime maintenance
  • Solid-color sealer tints available
  • Shows the slab honestly, cracks included
Color selection

226 colors we can put on your floor

Every color below is a stocked color — no special order, no upcharge for picking from this range. Flake blends can also be mixed to a custom color by special order. Browse it now, then hold the physical sample before you decide.

Three systems, three color ranges — tap one:

Flake blends

Vinyl chip broadcast into the base coat, then sealed. The families below are just the looks grouped — pick a family to narrow the list. Chip size is noted where a blend comes in more than one; bigger chips read as more texture underfoot and hide more of the slab.

  • BambiFB-959
  • BuffaloFB-954
  • ChickadeeFB-967
  • LoonFB-966
  • MerinoFB-971
  • MushroomFB-714
  • RobinFB-973
  • Rosy-FinchFB-969
  • SafariFB-504
  • SparrowFB-972
  • SwanFB-612
  • Trail MixFB-613
  • WaxwingFB-968
  • WoodlandFB-516
  • WoodpeckerFB-975
  • WrenFB-970
  • ChenilleFB-981
  • CitrineFB-978
  • CoyoteFB-513
  • DingoFB-980
  • DovetailFB-823
  • HeronFB-976
  • KeystoneFB-713
  • KoalaFB-811
  • MadrasFB-706
  • MorelFB-979
  • Nordic GreenFB-514
  • PolarFB-330
  • Rocky RidgeFB-801
  • Stony CreekFB-806
  • ThymeFB-977
  • CometFB-711
  • CrossbowFB-320
  • HogFB-606
  • PlattevilleFB-314
  • QuicksilverFB-424
  • StonehengeFB-427
  • StonewashFB-708
  • Yellow JacketFB-332
  • Feather GrayFB-905
  • FogFB-703
  • GalaxyFB-907
  • HoundstoothFB-910
  • Moon MistFB-906
  • OpalFB-901
  • RavenFB-915
  • ShadowFB-913
  • Silver BellsFB-903
  • SnowfallFB-602
  • StargazerFB-908
  • ThunderFB-912
  • TimberwolfFB-909
  • Wild DoveFB-911
  • AgateFB-4107
  • BlacktopFB-4112
  • ClaystoneFB-4110
  • LimestoneFB-4111
  • SandstoneFB-4108
  • ShaleFB-4106
  • SlateFB-4105
  • BeaverFB-217
  • BlitzFB-241
  • BoomFB-242
  • BuckyFB-223
  • CharlotteFB-248
  • ConquerFB-246
  • FlipperFB-236
  • FordFB-213
  • FreddieFB-256
  • Gold RushFB-253
  • Green and GoldFB-982
  • GrowlFB-255
  • GumboFB-238
  • JaxFB-234
  • LP FieldFB-207
  • LincolnFB-229
  • MilwaukeeFB-231
  • PatFB-250
  • PoeFB-245
  • RampageFB-235
  • RebelFB-251
  • RiseFB-247
  • RoaryFB-252
  • RowdyFB-249
  • SkolFB-244
  • SplashFB-237
  • Steel CityFB-240
  • SwoopFB-239
  • TalonFB-257
  • The LandFB-233
  • TigerFB-254
  • VitktorFB-243
  • WhitewaterFB-315
  • Windy CityFB-232
  • ArkoseF9318
  • BasaltF9309
  • BlizzardFB-6001
  • CarbonF9202
  • DoleriteF9311
  • FeldsparF9203
  • GarnetF9305
  • Lanai GrayF3080
  • MetapeliteF9317
  • ObsidianF9304
  • PumiceF9303
  • SableF9205
  • SchistF9307
  • SoapstoneF9320
  • SpiliteF9313
  • SycamoreFB-6002
  • TalusF9319
  • Weathered-GrayFB-6003
  • Cabin FeverFB-127
  • CreekbedFB-716
  • DominoFB-411
  • GravelFB-414
  • NightfallFB-715
  • OrbitFB-310
  • OutbackFB-517
  • ShorelineFB-421
  • Tidal WaveFB-807
  • WombatFB-616
  • Primary BlueF6604
  • ArmadilloFB-4216
  • HuskyFB-4211
  • JuneauFB-4205
  • YosemiteFB-4215

Screens lie about color. These swatches are sampled from manufacturer color references, and cured epoxy shifts with the substrate, how thick it goes down, how fast it cures, and the color of the primer underneath. Treat this page as a shortlist tool. We bring physical samples to the walkthrough and nobody signs off a color from a monitor.

How it goes down

Where the money actually goes

Roughly two thirds of the labor on a coating job happens before any color touches the floor. A crew that skips this is why your neighbor’s garage floor is peeling in sheets.

  1. Step one

    Test the slab

    Moisture is the number one killer of resinous floors. On slabs on grade we test for vapor transmission before quoting a system — a slab pushing moisture needs a vapor-barrier primer or it will blister no matter what goes on top.

  2. Step two

    Grind, don’t etch

    Diamond grinding or shot blasting to open the concrete to a proper profile. Acid etching from a big-box kit does not get there. This is the single biggest difference between a floor that bonds and one that lifts.

  3. Step three

    Repair and fill

    Cracks chased and filled, spalls patched, joints treated, oil-saturated spots cut out. Anything left in the slab telegraphs through the finish.

  4. Step four

    Build the system

    Primer, base coat, flake or pigment, then clear topcoat — each layer within its own recoat window. Then we stay off it. Light foot traffic next day, vehicles after the full cure.

Straight answers

What people ask us

Why did my last epoxy floor peel?

Almost always one of two things: the concrete was never opened up properly, so the coating sat on the surface instead of keying into it, or the slab is pushing moisture and the vapor pressure pushed the coating off from underneath. Both are prep failures, not product failures. A better brand of epoxy over the same bad prep peels the same way.

Will it handle hot tires?

A properly built system will. Hot-tire pickup happens when a thin single-coat product softens under a warm tire and lifts with it when you pull out. A full flake system with a urethane topcoat, bonded to a ground slab, does not do that. This is the main reason DIY kits fail in garages.

How long before I can park on it?

Typically light foot traffic the next day and vehicles after several days, depending on the system and the temperature. Cold slows the cure considerably. We give you the actual dates for your job before we start so you can plan where the cars go.

Can you coat over an existing epoxy floor?

Sometimes. If the existing coating is well bonded across the whole floor, we can abrade it and build on top. If it is failing anywhere, it comes off — a new coating is only as good as what it sticks to. We test adhesion during the walkthrough rather than guessing.

Is epoxy slippery?

A smooth metallic or solid-color floor is slick when wet, yes. A flake system has texture built into it and grips well. For wet areas we can also broadcast an anti-slip aggregate into the topcoat. Tell us if the space sees water, snowmelt, or bare feet and we will spec accordingly.

What does an epoxy floor cost?

It depends far more on the condition of your slab than on the color you pick. Two identical-size garages can differ substantially if one needs crack repair and a moisture-barrier primer and the other does not. We look at the floor, test it, and give you a real number rather than a per-square-foot guess that changes once we start grinding.

Do you do commercial and government work?

Yes. Sonny’s is a veteran-owned general contractor registered in SAM.gov and Maryland eMMA, and we coat warehouse, mechanical room, commercial kitchen, and federal facility floors alongside residential garages. Same prep standard either way.

Send us a photo of your floor.

Bring us the ugliest corner of it. We will tell you what the slab needs, which system fits the room, and what it takes to do it once.

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