Rocket City Coatings

Polyaspartic Coating Cost

$5–$9/sq ft installed · published, not hidden

A polyaspartic floor coating in Huntsville costs $5–$9 per square foot installed. A typical 2-car garage runs $2,000–$3,800 installed. Where your floor lands inside that range comes down to six factors, and every one of them is on this page.

$ 5 Per sq ft, low end sound slab, standard flake
$ 9 Per sq ft, high end repairs plus moisture work
70 % Goes to labor & prep material is the small slice

What you're pricing

The number above is for the Rocket City System — a polyurea base coat, full flake broadcast, and a polyaspartic topcoat, which is the UV-stable clear wear layer that takes the actual abuse. Three named products, installed in one day, warrantied for 15 years in writing.

That matters because "polyaspartic coating" quotes around town aren't pricing the same thing. Some are one thin coat. Some are epoxy with a polyaspartic top. Ours is the full system, and the range holds: a clean, sound slab with standard flake sits near $5/sq ft, and a slab that needs crack repair and moisture work climbs toward $9.

The table on the right is the whole pricing model. No mystery line items.

One factor deserves its own sentence: moisture. If your slab is pushing water vapor — common on older slabs around here — a mitigation primer has to go down first, and that's the largest add on the list. The moisture problems page covers how we test and what the readings mean.

The six factors that move a quote
FactorEffect on price
Square footageThe biggest lever. Setup costs the same for 300 feet as 900, so bigger floors run cheaper per foot.
Crack & spall repairSpalling is surface flaking and pitting. Cracks get routed and polymer-filled, spalls get patched — both add hours before coating starts.
Moisture mitigationThe biggest single add. Slabs that test wet need a mitigation primer before the system goes down.
Flake choiceStandard Torginol blends all price the same. Oversized specialty flake sizes add a little.
Edge & stem-wall coatingCarrying the coating a few inches up the wall is hand work, priced by the linear foot.
Moving contentsAn empty garage is the cheapest garage. We can move your stuff — it just shows up as a line item.

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Where the money actually goes

About 70% of a polyaspartic floor's price is labor and prep, not material. That surprises people, so here's the day: diamond grinding the slab (machine time plus diamond tooling that wears out), routing and filling every crack, moisture readings, masking, then three separate product applications with cure windows between them — all by a crew that does this and only this.

The buckets of product are real money, but they're the minority. Which tells you something useful about cheap quotes: nobody discounts buckets. When a quote comes in dramatically under this range, the savings came out of the labor — which means the prep. The garage coating cost page breaks down exactly what those quotes leave out.

You can't see prep in a finished floor. You see it three Augusts later.

When we'd tell you not to spend it

Three situations where this coating is the wrong purchase, from people who sell it.

The slab is too far gone. Deep spalling across the whole floor, heaved sections, crumbling edges — at some point you're not coating concrete, you're coating a problem. A slab like that needs resurfacing or replacement first, and we'll say so at the measure instead of taking your money.

The garage's days are numbered. Planning an addition, a teardown, or converting the garage to living space in the next couple of years? Don't put a 15-year floor in a 2-year room.

The budget belongs to moisture first. If your slab tests very wet, the right spend is mitigation — fixing the vapor problem — even if that means the decorative coating waits until next year. A pretty floor over an unmitigated wet slab is a scheduled failure, and we won't install one.

Does flake color change the price of a polyaspartic floor?
No. Every standard Torginol blend in our gallery prices the same — pick on looks, not budget. The only flake decision that moves money is size: oversized specialty flake (the 1" stuff) takes more material to reach full coverage and adds a little to the quote. We'll flag it before you fall in love with it.
Do you charge more in Madison or Decatur than in Huntsville?
No. The per-square-foot range is the same everywhere we work — Huntsville, Madison, Decatur, Athens, Harvest, and the rest of the service area. There's no trip charge hiding in the number. What does vary by location is the slab itself: Decatur garages near the river tend to test wetter, and moisture work is priced as moisture work, not as geography.
Can I save money by grinding the floor myself?
We won't coat over prep we didn't do, so no. It's not pride — the 15-year warranty rides on the bond, and the bond rides on the grind. If we can't verify the profile under the coating, we can't stand behind the floor. The honest way to save money is simpler: empty the garage before we arrive and skip the add-ons you don't need.
How long is a quoted price good for?
Through your scheduled install. Once you book, the number on the quote is the number on the invoice — we don't re-measure your wallet between the handshake and the job. If the slab turns out to need work we couldn't see at the measure, we stop and talk before anything changes.

Get a number, not a runaround

Tell us what you're working with and we'll give you a straight price range on the phone. No pressure visit required to hear a number.

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