Epoxy Flooring in Durham, NC

Epoxy Flooring Installers Serving Durham, NC and the Triangle

If your garage slab is pitted from oil drips, your basement floor sweats every summer, or the concrete in your sunroom just looks tired — an epoxy floor is usually the fix. We are Vilchis Hardwood Floors, and we’ve been installing epoxy floors across Durham, NC for homeowners who want a surface that will not chip the first time someone drops a wrench on it.

We work on garages, basements, sunrooms, laundry rooms, and the occasional commercial shop. Most of our jobs run between $3 and $7 per square foot depending on the finish you pick and how much prep the slab needs. Every quote we give is in writing after we look at the concrete in person — no estimates over text, no surprises on invoice day.

We serve homeowners in Durham, Raleigh, Cary, Carrboro, Chapel Hill, and Wake Forest. If you are searching for “epoxy flooring near me” and you live anywhere in the Triangle, we are probably twenty minutes away.

Epoxy Garage Flooring in Durham, NC

Garages are the most common job we get called for, and they’re also the floors that take the most abuse. Hot tires, dropped tools, road salt in the winter, the lawnmower leaking gas in July. A standard concrete slab will stain and pit. A properly installed epoxy garage floor will not.

For most garages in our area, we recommend a flake epoxy system. The chips hide minor slab imperfections, the texture gives you some grip when the floor is wet, and the topcoat is a polyaspartic or polyurethane — which is what gives the floor its actual scratch resistance. (The epoxy underneath is the bond; the topcoat is the armor.) A two-car garage typically takes us two to three days from grind to walk-on, with another five days before you can park on it.

If you want to see what these jobs look like when they’re finished, our recent projects gallery has photos from jobs around Durham and Chapel Hill.

Our Epoxy Flooring Services

• Epoxy garage flooring (flake, metallic, and solid color systems)
• Epoxy concrete floor coatings for basements and storage areas
• Metallic epoxy for finished interior spaces
• Flake epoxy with anti-slip texture
• Polyaspartic and polyurethane topcoats for added scratch resistance
• Concrete grinding and crack repair before the coating goes down
• Touch-ups and re-coats on epoxy floors that were installed years ago

Why epoxy is the right call for concrete floors in the Triangle

North Carolina is humid. Concrete in our climate is constantly being asked to deal with moisture from below the slab and from the air above it, which is why so many garage and basement floors here look chalky or develop that fine surface dust. A real epoxy system seals the slab against that moisture and turns the floor into something you can actually clean with a hose.

It also handles the stuff garages get hit with — gasoline, brake fluid, antifreeze, road salt. Spilled oil wipes off instead of soaking in. The floor doesn’t fade in the summer because it’s not sitting in direct UV the way an outdoor deck would. And it lasts. We’ve gone back to jobs we did six and seven years ago and the floor still looks like the day we left.

One thing we will tell you straight: an epoxy floor is only as good as the prep underneath it. If the contractor skips the diamond grinding step and just rolls coating onto a swept slab, you’ll see peeling within a year. We grind every floor.

Designed for Style and Performance

Most clients land on one of three looks. Flake is the most popular for garages — it’s the speckled finish you’ve probably seen in showroom garages. Metallic gives you a marbled, almost liquid look that works well in finished basements and sunrooms. Solid color is clean and simple, usually picked for shops, laundry rooms, or anyone who just wants a tough surface in a plain color. If you’re not sure which one fits your space, we’ll bring samples to the consultation.

Our Epoxy Installation Process

Here’s what a typical epoxy job with us looks like, start to finish:

1. On-site consultation. We come out, look at the slab, check for moisture issues, and walk you through finish options.
2. Diamond grinding. We grind the concrete down to open the pores so the epoxy actually bonds. This is the step most cheap installers skip.
3. Crack and pit repair. Anything wider than a hairline gets filled with a polyurea joint filler.
4. Primer coat. A thin bonding layer goes down first.
5. Color coat plus flake or metallic, depending on the system you picked.
6. Polyaspartic or polyurethane topcoat. This is the scratch- and UV-resistant layer.
7. Cure. Walk-on after about 24 hours. Drive-on after about 5 to 7 days.

The whole job is usually 2 to 3 days of work plus the cure window before you can park on it.

Get Started Today

If you want to see how an epoxy floor stacks up against other concrete coatings before you commit, the Concrete Network has a good comparison guide covering the main coating types — it’s a neutral resource we send clients to all the time.

When you’re ready, give us a call at (919) 794-1116 or use the form on this page. We’ll come look at your floor, talk through what makes sense for your space, and write you an estimate before we leave. If you also have hardwood or tile work coming up, our hardwood flooring and tile installation crews are the same people — we can scope the whole project at once.

Frequently asked questions about epoxy flooring in Durham, NC

How much does epoxy flooring cost in Durham, NC?

Most of our residential jobs fall between $3 and $7 per square foot installed. A standard two-car garage in Durham usually lands in the $1,800 to $3,200 range depending on the finish, the condition of the slab, and whether we need to do crack repair. Metallic epoxy runs higher than flake. We give you the actual number after we see the floor.

Are you epoxy flooring installers near me?

If “near me” is anywhere in Durham, Raleigh, Cary, Chapel Hill, Carrboro, or Wake Forest — yes. Our shop is on Obie Drive in Durham and we cover the full Triangle.

How long does an epoxy garage floor last?

A properly installed system with a polyaspartic topcoat will last 10 to 15 years in a residential garage before it needs a re-coat. The epoxy itself doesn’t really wear out — the topcoat takes the abuse, and re-coating just the top layer is a one-day job.

Can you put epoxy over an old painted garage floor?

Usually no. Any existing paint or sealer has to come off before we can install. We handle that as part of the grind during prep. If your floor already has a coating on it, send us a photo and we’ll tell you what’s involved.

What’s the difference between epoxy flooring and a floor coating?

Epoxy is one type of floor coating, but not all floor coatings are epoxy. We also install polyurea and polyaspartic systems when those are a better fit for the space. If you’re trying to figure out which is right for your project, our floor coating page covers the differences in more detail.

Do you handle indoor concrete floors too, or only garages?

Both. Basements, sunrooms, laundry rooms, mudrooms, home gyms, even some kitchens. Epoxy is fine indoors as long as the slab is dry and properly prepped.