For the highest-quality epoxy flooring installers near you in North Charleston — industry-leading quality, expert in-house crews, and a lifetime warranty on every floor we coat.
Schedule your free consultation — save up to $200 on a 2-car garage and $300 on a 3-car. No pressure, no games.
1-Day Epoxy Garage Floor Coating Installation
North Charleston Garage Floor Coatings & Epoxy Flooring Specialists
From warehouse and shop floors along the Ashley Phosphate and Dorchester Road corridors to slab-on-grade garages near Park Circle and Joint Base Charleston, Apex installs every coating system the Charleston metro needs.
Diamond-grind prep and a 100% solids epoxy or polyaspartic base — never a paint or a thin sealer.
A UV-stable topcoat engineered for North Charleston humidity, summer heat & slab moisture.
Why Homeowners Across the Southeast Call Apex First for Epoxy Floor Coatings
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Free Quote
Transparent, itemized pricing with no pressure, no fake urgency, and no hidden add-ons.
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Diamond-Grind Prep
Mechanical concrete profile on every job — the step DIY kits and cheap contractors skip.
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1-Day Install
Walk on it in 4 hours. Drive on it in 24. Back to normal by tomorrow.
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25-Year Warranty
Written, transferable, and backed by the local Apex location that installed it.
500+Garage Floors
“I’m so happy with my coating! These folks are wonderful at what they do.”
— RODNEY ARNOLD, Google Review
“Elite level flooring from Apex. They use a commercial grade product that lasts a lifetime.”
— CARTER HALL, Google Review
“Apex Epoxy Flooring did a great job on my basement. The crew was easy to deal with and knew what they were doing. Can’t wait to have them do my garage next.”
— ROBERT LAWSON, Google Review
4.8
Based on 208 Google reviews
Industries We Serve
Apex Epoxy Flooring Services & Coatingsfor North Charleston garages, homes & businesses.
Whatever your floor takes all day, there's an Apex system for it. Hover any industry to see the fit.
Explore our most popular flake, metallic, solid-color and marble finishes. We bring physical samples to every free in-home estimate so you can see them on your slab.
Every layer engineered for the Charleston metro heat, North Charleston humidity, and the demands of a real garage floor.
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Prepared Concrete Slabdiamond-ground to CSP-2/3
Your existing slab, mechanically profiled to a Concrete Surface Profile of 2 to 3. Cracks patched. Moisture verified. Every layer above only lasts if this one is right.
A pigmented, self-leveling 100%-solids epoxy rolled wet-on-wet directly onto the diamond-ground slab. Delivers the color depth and the film thickness that separates a real floor from a paint job.
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Vinyl Flake Broadcasthand-cast to full rejection
Vinyl chip flakes hand-broadcast into the wet basecoat until the surface refuses more. Cured overnight, scraped flat, vacuumed. Color, camouflage, and slip-grip in one.
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Polyaspartic TopcoatUV-stable, chemical-resistant
What you walk on. This aliphatic polyaspartic floor coating seals the flake and shrugs off UV, road salt, brake fluid, and hot tires. 25-year warranty starts at this layer.
From Free Estimate to Final Walk-Through
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Free Estimate
A free, no-pressure in-home quote with real color samples.
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Diamond Grind
We mechanically diamond-grind your slab to the right profile.
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Application
100% solids epoxy, flake broadcast, and polyaspartic topcoat.
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Final Walk-Thru
We walk the finished floor with you before we leave.
Ready to book your free estimate?
Free in-home consultation with real color samples — most North Charleston jobs quoted same day.
Your price comes down to the finish you choose and the condition of your slab. These are honest, installed starting prices for a typical North Charleston 2-car and 3-car garage.
Finish
Starting Price
2-Car (~450 sq ft)
3-Car (~650 sq ft)
Best For
Solid Epoxy
$4per sq ft
~$1,800
~$2,600
Clean, budget-friendly single color
Flake EpoxyMost Popular
$6per sq ft
$2,700$2,300
$3,900$2,700
Most garages — hides flaws, adds grip
Quartz Epoxy
$6per sq ft
~$2,700
~$3,900
Maximum slip resistance & durability
Metallic Epoxy
$9per sq ft
~$4,050
~$5,850
High-end, marbled showpiece look
Final pricing confirmed with your free in-home estimate — no pressure, no games.
Serving the Greater North Charleston, SC Area
Epoxy Flooring Near Me
Professional epoxy & garage floor coatings across North Charleston and the surrounding the Charleston metro communities.
CharlestonHanahanGoose CreekLadsonSummervillePark CircleNorthwoodsAshley PhosphateDorchester RoadJoint Base CharlestonLincolnvilleCainhoyDaniel IslandMount PleasantMoncks CornerWest AshleyJames Island
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Contact us today for a no-cost consultation where we evaluate your flooring needs, provide an estimated price based on square footage, and recommend the best epoxy flooring solutions tailored specifically for you.
Diamond Grinding Floor Prep
We use a diamond propane grinder to meticulously prepare your floor, ensuring a smooth, flawless surface that maximizes the adhesion and longevity of your epoxy floor coating.
Multi-Layered Epoxy Floor Installation
Our team applies multiple layers of premium epoxy resin flooring, each layer enhancing the durability, aesthetics, and overall performance of your new epoxy floor.
Curing & Final Inspection
We ensure the epoxy floor coating cures properly to achieve maximum strength and conduct a thorough final inspection to guarantee your complete satisfaction with the finished project.
You don’t have to choose. We lay a 100% solids epoxy base for depth, then seal it with a polyaspartic topcoat for speed and UV resistance — the best of both.
North Charleston Epoxy FAQs
Answers From Our Epoxy Flooring Professionals
The questions North Charleston homeowners actually search before coating a garage floor — answered honestly, including the downsides.
Most North Charleston 2-car garages land between $1,800 and $2,700 installed. Our flake system runs $2,300 for a 2-car and $2,700 for a 3-car, all-in. Industry-wide, professional coatings run about $5–$15 per square foot depending on the system and how much slab repair is needed. You get a firm number at your free in-home estimate — not a range.
A 20×20 garage is about 400 square feet, which sits right in standard 2-car territory. For our flake system that’s the $2,300 range, assuming the slab is in normal shape. Heavy cracking, pitting, or an old failing coating that needs removal will add to it — we’ll tell you that up front, not after we start.
Nationally the average runs $1,500–$4,000 for a professional install, and $300–$900 for a DIY kit. North Charleston specifically tends to fall in the $1,870–$2,700 band. Anything far below that usually means thin material, no diamond grinding, or a single-coat product that won’t last.
Almost always because of prep. A $900 quote is a roller, a bucket, and an afternoon — no grinding, no moisture testing, no crack repair. A proper quote includes mechanically diamond-grinding the slab to a CSP 2–3 profile, patching cracks, and verifying moisture. That prep is the single biggest reason one floor lasts 20 years and another peels in two.
Everything: diamond-grind preparation, crack and pit repair, moisture testing, a 100%-solids pigmented epoxy basecoat, full vinyl flake broadcast, a UV-stable polyaspartic topcoat, and a written, transferable 25-year warranty. No trip fees, no surprise add-ons after the fact.
Generally yes compared to tile — tile costs more to install and grout lines crack and stain in a garage. Against polished concrete it’s roughly comparable, but a coated floor gives you color, flake, and a non-porous surface that resists oil and chemicals, which bare polished concrete does not.
If it’s installed properly, yes. You go from a dusty, staining slab to a sealed, non-porous surface you can sweep or hose clean, that resists oil, brake fluid, and hot tires, and that makes the whole garage read as finished space. The value hinges entirely on preparation — a coating sprayed over an unground slab is money thrown away.
Honest answer: a cheap epoxy floor can peel, straight epoxy can amber or yellow in direct sun, and any smooth coating is slippery when wet. We address all three — diamond grinding for the bond, a UV-stable polyaspartic topcoat so it holds color, and a full flake broadcast that gives the surface real grip. The downsides are real; they’re also solvable.
If the slab has active moisture intrusion coming up from below, or major structural cracking or heaving that hasn’t been addressed, coating over it just traps the problem. That’s why we moisture-test before quoting. If your slab isn’t a candidate, we’ll tell you rather than sell you a floor that will fail.
A smooth, glossy coating can be. Our flake and quartz systems broadcast decorative chips into the wet basecoat, which leaves a subtle texture that grips underfoot — a meaningful difference when you pull a wet car into the garage during a North Charleston downpour. For wash-down areas we can add extra slip aggregate.
It won’t appraise like a kitchen remodel, but a finished garage floor is one of the most visible, lowest-cost upgrades you can make — it photographs well, it signals a well-maintained home, and buyers notice it immediately. Our warranty is transferable, which is a genuine selling point.
A professionally installed system lasts 10–20 years, and well beyond that when the prep was done right. DIY kits commonly begin peeling or yellowing within 2–5 years because they’re thin, water-based, and applied over an unground slab. Our system carries a written 25-year warranty.
A properly installed flake floor at five years looks essentially the same as day one — maybe a little less gloss in the main tire path. A poorly prepped floor at five years is a different story: lifted patches where the tires sit, chips at the door line, and yellowing wherever sun hits it.
Not if the prep is right. Google’s own summary of epoxy failures puts it plainly: up to 80% of failures trace back to poor surface preparation. Peeling and hot-tire pickup come from a weak bond; bubbles come from trapped moisture. We diamond-grind to a CSP 2–3 profile and moisture-test every slab specifically so neither can happen.
Straight epoxy will amber over time under UV — that’s chemistry, not workmanship. That’s exactly why we don’t leave epoxy as the wear layer. The polyaspartic topcoat is UV-stable, so the floor holds its color even with the door open all day in July.
Yes. Hot-tire pickup happens when hot rubber grips a soft or poorly bonded coating and lifts it. Our polyaspartic topcoat stays hard through the Charleston metro heat and is bonded to a diamond-ground slab, so tires roll off clean.
They’re better together, which is why we use both. Epoxy gives you thickness, color depth, and a strong mechanical bond into the concrete. Polyaspartic cures fast and is UV-stable and chemical-resistant. We lay a 100%-solids epoxy base, broadcast flake, then seal it with a polyaspartic topcoat — the strengths of each, without the weaknesses of either alone.
For the topcoat, yes — polyaspartic outperforms epoxy on UV stability, cure speed, and hot-tire resistance. For the basecoat, a 100%-solids epoxy is still the best value for film build and bond. Anyone selling you a single-product floor is optimizing for their labor, not your slab.
A multi-layer system beats any single product: mechanically ground slab, 100%-solids epoxy base, full flake or quartz broadcast, and a polyaspartic wear layer. Total film thickness and bond quality matter far more than the brand name on the bucket.
You can, and for a light-use slab it may hold up a few years. The honest tradeoff: big-box kits are thin, usually water-based, and include an acid etch rather than mechanical grinding — which is why they commonly fail in 2–5 years. The grinder rental, materials, and a weekend of your time often lands closer to a professional quote than people expect.
Only after the old coating is dealt with properly. If it’s already delaminating, coating over it just inherits the failure. We grind the old system off back to sound concrete and start from a clean profile. It adds labor, and we’ll price it honestly at the estimate.
Most residential garages are a one-day install. We grind and prep in the morning, lay the basecoat and broadcast flake, then apply the polyaspartic topcoat the same day. Larger commercial or industrial slabs may run two days — you’ll know the schedule before we start.
You can typically walk on it in about 4 hours and park on it in 24. That fast return-to-service is the polyaspartic topcoat doing its job — a straight epoxy floor would keep you out of the garage for several days.
A full system: moisture-mitigating primer where the slab calls for it, a pigmented 100%-solids epoxy basecoat rolled edge to edge, vinyl flake broadcast to rejection, then a clear polyaspartic topcoat. The flake is scraped and vacuumed flat before the topcoat goes on.
Sweep or dust-mop it, and hose or mop it with a mild cleaner when it needs it. No waxing, no sealing, no special products. Because the surface is non-porous, oil and brake fluid sit on top and wipe away instead of soaking in.
Yes. Isolated damage — a dropped jack stand, a gouge from a toolbox — can be spot-repaired and blended without redoing the floor. That’s a real advantage of a flake floor: the pattern hides the repair almost completely.
Any time. Polyaspartic cures across a wide temperature range, and the work happens inside your garage, so North Charleston’s summer humidity and winter cool snaps don’t stop us. We do moisture-test year-round, because slab moisture matters far more than the calendar.
It affects the installation, which is why we test for it. the Charleston metro slabs carry real moisture vapor drive, and coating over it without a barrier is what causes bubbling and delamination later. We moisture-test every slab and use a vapor-barrier primer where the readings call for it.
Moisture vapor works on porous surfaces — it works into bare or lightly sealed concrete and pits it. A seamless, non-porous, fully bonded system gives moisture nothing to grab, which is why we build the same way on a North Charleston warehouse slab as we do on a Park Circle garage.
Not under a properly installed system. Mold needs moisture and a food source; a fully bonded, non-porous coating over a moisture-tested slab leaves no gap for water to collect. Problems arise when a coating is applied over a damp slab with no barrier — the exact failure our moisture testing exists to prevent.
Yes — North Charleston proper plus Charleston, Hanahan, Goose Creek, Ladson, Summerville, Park Circle, Northwoods, Ashley Phosphate, Dorchester Road, Joint Base Charleston, Lincolnville, Cainhoy, Daniel Island, Mount Pleasant, Moncks Corner, West Ashley, and James Island. If you’re nearby and not on the list, call us at (904) 595-9792 and ask.
Customer Reviews
Apex Reviews From the Charleston metro
5Based on 208 Google reviews across all our locations
SSuzanne Doblera week ago
Blake and his crew did a great job of preparing our previously coated floor by diamond grinding it, vacuuming it and then applying their epoxy with flakes and non slip top coat. Our garage floor was transformed. The crew was friendly and communication on all aspects of the job was top notch.
KKaren Garcia6 months ago
What a great experience working with Apex Epoxy Flooring! The team was professional, punctual, detailed, and gave me great advice for maintaing the floor. My 20x22 sqft garage floor has never looked so good.
CCarter Hall7 months ago
Elite level flooring from Apex. They use a commercial grade product that lasts a lifetime.
EEdith Hart8 months ago
Apex's suggestion to go with epoxy instead of floor paint when I first called them for info was spot on. We’re really happy with how our basement floor turned out and the fact that it is safe if it floods agian. Big thanks to Apex for a fabulous job!
RRobert Lawson8 months ago
Apex Epoxy Flooring did a great job on my basement. The crew was easy to deal with and knew what they were doing. Can’t wait to have them do my garage next.
AAndrew Cliffhinger9 months ago
Apex Epoxy Flooring of North Charleston gave my two car garage a flake epoxy floor for a very decent price. Their deal on the 2 car garage is well worth the product they use. If you need epoxy work in GA, Apex is the way to go.
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