
Basement Concrete Coatings: Best and Worst Explained
Discover the best basement concrete coating options — and which ones to avoid. Learn why polyurea and polyaspartic outperform epoxy in damp basements.
Discover the best basement concrete coating options — and which ones to avoid. Learn why polyurea and polyaspartic outperform epoxy in damp basements.
So you’re staring at your pitted, salt-stained concrete floor and wondering what it would actually cost to have it professionally coated. Is it going to be a few hundred bucks or several thousand? And why does every concrete coating contractor in Upstate NY seem to price it differently? At Dream Floors Concrete Coatings, we’ve quoted thousands of projects across Upstate New York. We’ve seen garage floors so clean you could eat off them and others that looked like they just hosted a demolition derby. And yes, the concrete coating cost can swing dramatically depending on what we find. But there are some baseline concrete floor coating pricing concepts to keep in mind. Read on. Key Takeaways The Cost of Coating a Garage Floor, Explained If
Polyurea with a polyaspartic top coat offers the strongest bond to the concrete surface, cures quickly, and delivers years of performance in garage environments.
Polyurea/polyaspartic systems offer faster curing, UV resistance, and greater flexibility, especially in climates with wide temperature changes.
Polyaspartic coatings can last 10 to 20 years without re-coating if taken care of well and depending on how they are used and abused.