Houston, TX & Greater Houston
Ground to bare concrete. Finished like furniture.
Transform damaged, stained, or unfinished concrete with a professionally installed full-broadcast flake floor designed for Houston homes, garages, workshops, and commercial spaces.
What goes on your slab
Four layers, bottom to top
Aliphatic, UV stable. This is the wearing surface.
Scraped and vacuumed even. Texture comes from the flake edges.
Build and bond into the open concrete profile.
Mechanical profile. Not acid etch, not a pressure wash.
Insurance certificates and a sample warranty are available on request.
Short answer
Houston Superior Epoxy is a garage floor coating contractor serving the Houston metro, and the epoxy and concrete coatings division of Houston Superior Painting. We diamond grind the slab, repair cracks and spalls, then install epoxy and polyaspartic systems in garages, patios, shops and commercial buildings. Every quote follows an onsite inspection of your own concrete.
Judge a coating company on how it talks about your slab, not on the resin it sells. Preparation is where these floors are won or lost, and it is the first thing cut when a price looks too good.
Houston Superior Epoxy
Services
Every system and every preparation service has its own page with the technical detail behind it. Nothing here is a landing page built to catch a search term — if we do not do the work, there is no page for it.
The core residential install — diamond-ground concrete, repaired, then coated in the system your slab calls for.
Vinyl flake broadcast to refusal over an epoxy base, scraped even and locked under clear polyaspartic.
A uniform pigmented coating with no decorative broadcast. The simplest way to seal a slab and stop dusting.
Pearlescent pigment hand-worked while the resin is open, so the pattern is different on every floor.
Aliphatic, UV-stable topcoat chemistry — and where it genuinely differs from epoxy on a Houston slab.
Pool decks, patios and outdoor kitchens, assessed separately for sun, standing water and slip resistance.
Phased installs scheduled around your operating hours, including nights and weekends. $2M insured.
Heavy-traffic slabs with forklift wear, joint detail and line striping to work through.
The mechanical preparation step every coating we install is built on, with professional dust control.
Stripping a failed, peeling or delaminating floor back to sound concrete before anything new goes down.
Signature Installation System
Preparation is the part of the job that decides whether a coating holds. This is the sequence we run residential and commercial, with no steps traded away to hit a price.
Inspect the concrete and identify cracks, damage, contamination, and moisture concerns
Mechanically prepare the concrete with professional diamond grinding
Vacuum dust using professional dust-control equipment
Repair eligible cracks, spalls, and surface imperfections
Apply Citadel SLE-100 epoxy base coat when appropriate for the selected system
Broadcast decorative flakes to full refusal for full coverage
Scrape and vacuum loose flakes to create an even texture
Apply Polyaspartic F61 clear topcoat when appropriate for the system
Final quality inspection and care instructions
Diamond grinding is our preparation method. Steps 5 and 8 are specified when appropriate for the selected system — substrate conditions sometimes require a different build.
The Differentiator
This is the part of the job you will never see once the floor is finished, and it is the part that decides whether the floor is still there in five years. It is also the first thing a low bid removes. Here is the actual engineering, without the adjectives.
A floor coating is held down by resin locking into the open pore structure of the concrete. A power-troweled slab is closed at the surface and usually carries laitance — a weak, dusty layer of fines brought up during finishing. Coat over it and the resin bonds to the laitance instead of the concrete, so the floor can peel off in sheets while the coating film itself is still perfectly intact.
The industry measures surface roughness on the ICRI concrete surface profile scale, and coating manufacturers name a target profile in their technical data sheets. Diamond grinding is how that profile gets produced repeatably. Acid etching and pressure washing clean a slab but do not reliably open it to a specified profile, which is why we do not use them as our preparation method.
Cracks are repaired as their own step before any coating goes down. Part of the inspection is judging whether a crack is dormant or still moving, because a moving crack telegraphs straight back through a coating that was simply filmed over it. Control and expansion joints are handled deliberately rather than buried, since a joint exists to let the slab move.
Concrete on grade can drive water vapor upward from the soil below, and a coating that seals a slab pushing vapor can blister osmotically from underneath. The recognised test methods are ASTM F1869 (anhydrous calcium chloride) and ASTM F2170 (in-situ relative humidity probes). We look for moisture indicators during the inspection so the specification accounts for it, instead of discovering it after the floor is down.
Standard epoxy resins are aromatic, and aromatic chemistry ambers and chalks under sustained ultraviolet exposure — a well-documented property, not a defect. Aliphatic chemistries such as polyaspartics and aliphatic urethanes are the UV-stable option, which is why the topcoat matters far more than the base coat on any slab that sees daylight.
What a finished floor tolerates — brake fluid, road salt, battery acid, pool chemicals, degreasers — is a property of the topcoat chemistry and the specific reagent and dwell time, not of "epoxy" in general. We specify from the manufacturer's current resistance data for the system going on your slab rather than publishing a blanket rating, and we tell you what the floor is not rated for.
When a tire comes home hot from a Houston summer drive, it softens the coating at the contact patch and lifts it as the car cools and the rubber grips. The reason it lifts is almost always inadequate bond to the concrete or a coating driven into service before it reached full cure — not a coating that was insufficiently hard. Adequate profile, a fully cured system and a topcoat appropriate to vehicle traffic are what prevent it.
A full-broadcast flake floor already has texture from the flake edges under the clear coat. Where more is needed — patios, pool decks, wash bays, commercial walkways — aluminium oxide or polymer grit can be suspended in the topcoat. This is a real tradeoff: more aggressive texture is more secure underfoot and harder to mop, and slip resistance is measured as DCOF under ANSI A326.3 rather than described with adjectives.
The failure interface on nearly every peeling floor we strip out is between the coating and the concrete, not inside the coating film. That means the resin can never outperform the bond underneath it, and preparation is the one variable a low bid removes first because it is invisible in the finished floor. It is also the variable we will not trade away, which is the honest reason our number is rarely the cheapest one you receive.
None of the above is proprietary. It is documented industry practice that a properly equipped installer can follow and an underequipped one cannot, which is why we publish it instead of claiming a secret system. What we will not publish are adhesion, cure or chemical-resistance figures — those come from the manufacturer's current technical data sheet for the exact system going on your slab, and we will show you that sheet.
Finishes We Install
Our own project photography is still being shot, so the six frames below are labelled illustrations of the finishes and the space types we work in — not photographs of our work. Every image on this site falls into one of three clearly marked categories: a real project photograph, a labelled illustration like these, or an empty slot saying what belongs in it. What you will not find is stock photography, or a generated image passed off as a floor we installed.
We are photographing completed floors properly rather than filling this page with stock images, or with generated pictures passed off as jobs we did. Anything on this site that is an illustration rather than a photograph is labelled as one. Until the archive is up, the fastest way to judge our workmanship is to ask for local references, or to read the reviews left by the homeowners whose floors we have already installed.
Pricing
Two quotes on the same garage can describe completely different work, so a single number would tell you very little on its own. Rather than advertise a figure that may not survive contact with your slab, here is every variable that decides what your floor costs — and what the quote itself guarantees.
Slab condition drives cost more than square footage does. Whether an existing coating has to come off, how much crack and spall repair the floor needs, slab moisture and the system you choose all move the figure, and the only way to know by how much is to look at the concrete. The onsite inspection that produces your actual number is free, and the quote is itemized in writing with no payment due upfront.
Total area sets the material and labor baseline. Tight, cut-up spaces take longer per foot than open slabs.
A previously coated or sealed slab has to be stripped back mechanically before new work starts. This is often the single largest variable.
Cracks, spalls, pitting and past patchwork are repaired as their own step. More repair means more time before coating.
Slabs that push vapor are handled differently than dry slabs. We check for moisture during the inspection, not after.
Flake, metallic, quartz and solid color are not the same amount of material or labor.
Blend and coverage choices affect material cost and how many passes the install takes.
Coating up the stem walls or curbs adds detail work and cut-in time beyond the floor area.
The system and the substrate together determine how many coats the floor needs.
Exterior slabs face sun and water, which changes the specification and the surface texture.
Stairs, tight entries, occupied buildings and after-hours or weekend work all affect labor.
The onsite estimate is free, itemized in writing, and carries no upfront payment.
Full pricing breakdown →Call Houston Superior Epoxy at (346) 782-0903 to schedule an onsite estimate.
Reviews
Houston Superior Epoxy is the concrete coatings division of Houston Superior Painting, an established Houston painting contractor. Our coatings work is reviewed on its own Google Business Profile — unedited and in full, including anything less than glowing.
Service Area
We are a service-area business — there is no showroom, we come to your slab. Soil and construction era vary enough across Greater Houston that each of these areas gets its own page rather than a template with the city name swapped out.
Houston · Memorial · River Oaks · The Heights · Bellaire · Spring · Tomball · Missouri City
These communities are covered but do not have a dedicated page yet — a city only gets one when we can write something about its slabs that is not true everywhere else.
Questions
Answered directly, in the first sentence, with no figures we cannot support. Where the honest answer is “it depends on your slab,” we say that and explain what we are looking at.
Question not here? Call or text (346) 782-0903.
Schedule a free onsite assessment and receive a professional recommendation based on your concrete, project goals, and preferred finish.
