Guides for Coating Contractors

Start with the calculators

Both free. Both run in your browser. Both show every formula they use. Every default is a placeholder, not market data. Replace them with your own numbers.

Epoxy flooring price calculatorWhat to charge for a floor. Built from your material cost, crew day rate, daily square footage, overhead and margin.Free · No signup Epoxy business startup cost calculatorWhat it costs to get on the road, line by line. Grinding equipment through to operating reserve.Free · No signup

Pricing and quoting

How much to charge for epoxy flooringThere is no national price per square foot. Here is the cost build up, why you divide instead of add, and how to raise prices without losing the year. Epoxy garage floor pricingThe two car job, costed line by line. Where the half day of prep goes. And why small garages cost more per square foot. How to quote a concrete coating jobWalk the slab. Build the price. Give three scoped options. What belongs on the proposal, and what to say when they call you expensive.

Starting a coating business

How to start an epoxy flooring businessSix steps, in the order that works. Buying the grinder first is the most common way to get it backwards. Epoxy flooring startup costs explainedThree choices set your total. What each category buys, where new shops overspend, and the line every list leaves out. Epoxy flooring business equipment listThe core you cannot skip. What to buy used, what to put off, and the consumables that never make it onto a list. Do you need a license for epoxy flooring?Four models states use. Six questions to ask your own board. And the paperwork that sits past the license. Epoxy flooring business names: how to pick oneFour filters that knock out most names before you get attached. The patterns that work here, and what to register first.

Running the shop

Is epoxy flooring profitable?The real economics. Why busy shops still lose money, the four places profit leaks, and what the good ones do differently. Job costing for coating contractorsYour P&L cannot tell you which floors made money. The five fields to track, and how to do it so it sticks. How to pay a coating crewFour pay structures and what each one rewards. How to handle prep heavy jobs fairly, and why the crew has to see the numbers. How much should a coating crew produce per day?No published figure is useful. Measure your own rate in ten jobs. And find out where the day actually goes.

Growing and selling

How to get epoxy flooring leadsChannels in the order they pay off. The tracking habit you cannot rebuild later. And why answering first beats everything. Buying a concrete coating businessA real business, or a job with equipment attached? Six things to check before you buy, and the first ninety days after.

How these are written

Three rules. They are why some of these articles do not answer the question the way you expect.

No made up numbers. Some figures depend on your market, your crew or your state. Price per square foot. Startup cost. Daily rate. Licensing rules. For those you get the method and a calculator, not a national average. A confident wrong number is worse than none. It gets built into somebody’s pricing and stays there.

Worked examples say they are made up. A dollar figure in an example is a round number picked to show the arithmetic. The page says so right there.

We say where a competitor is better. If a general tool beats us at something, the comparison pages say so plainly.

The software side

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Guides for coating contractors