Garage floors, polished concrete and commercial coatings installed on a slab we have tested, profiled and priced honestly.
Pflugerville Epoxy Flooring has been installing epoxy garage floors, polished concrete, polyaspartic coatings and commercial resin systems across Pflugerville, TX for more than 20 years. We resurface driveways and pool decks, repair coatings that have already failed, grind and shot blast slabs back to bare concrete, and install metallic, flake and quartz broadcast floors for homeowners, shops and plants. Every one of those jobs starts the same way, with the slab rather than with the product.
That order is deliberate. A floor coating is a film a few thousandths of an inch thick, and it does exactly what the concrete underneath it does, so the slab decides how the finished floor behaves and the resin only decides how it looks and what it resists. We find out what your slab is sitting on, what it is doing seasonally, and how wet it is before we put a number on the work.
We also say plainly what a coating cannot do. Nothing we install will stop or bridge seasonal ground movement, and no product on the market changes that. What we can do is detail for it, test for it, and tell you before you sign where the floor is likely to move, which is a far shorter conversation than the one that happens after a floor has already come apart.
What we do
Epoxy Flooring in Pflugerville, Texas
Flake, solid color and metallic epoxy garage floors in Pflugerville, TX, installed on a slab we have tested, profiled and detailed first.
Commercial and residential polished concrete in Pflugerville, TX, ground and densified to an exposure level agreed on your own slab.
Overlays, microtoppings and deep patch repair for spalled and worn slabs in Pflugerville, TX, placed on properly profiled concrete.
UV-stable polyaspartic and polyurea floor systems in Pflugerville, TX, including one-day flake garage floors over a properly profiled slab.
Warehouse, kitchen, lab and service bay floors in Pflugerville, TX, specified against the exposure and phased around a business that cannot close.
Textured, UV-stable pool deck resurfacing in Pflugerville, TX, specified for barefoot comfort and wet traction before appearance.
Coating and adhesive removal, high-spot flattening and ICRI CSP profiling in Pflugerville, TX, with dust captured at the tool.
Marbled and pearlescent metallic epoxy floors in Pflugerville, TX, poured in one continuous pass and sealed under UV-stable clear coats.
Full broadcast flake epoxy floors in Pflugerville, TX, with chip size, blend and clear build chosen before the first pail is opened.
Peeling, blistered and recurring-crack repairs in Pflugerville, TX, diagnosed on the slab before anything is quoted or reinstalled.
UV-stable, textured driveway coatings and overlays in Pflugerville, TX, installed only where the slab is a genuine candidate for one.
We have been coating slabs in this part of Central Texas for more than 20 years, which is long enough to have gone back to floors we installed and seen which details held. The crack policy and the moisture policy on this page came out of that, not out of a product catalog.
Texas licenses no flooring, coatings or painting contractor. The Texas Department of Licensing and Regulation runs 41 programs and not one covers this trade, so a company quoting you a license number for a floor coating is quoting you something else. We carry general liability cover, workers compensation and a Texas sales and use tax permit, and we send all three before you sign.
Our proposal names the product, the system build and the finished mil thickness, coat by coat. Mil build and spread rate are the only honest measure of what you bought, and two quotes for an epoxy garage floor can differ by half the material while reading identically. Written this way, what was quoted can be checked against what went down.
Every quote here is written after we have established what the slab is sitting on. Pflugerville measures 99.1 percent inside the Texas Blackland Prairie, and shrink-swell is the limiting feature across 77.3 percent of the city’s soil area, so the ground sets the crack detail rather than the resin does, rather than a square-foot price quoted over the phone.
No slab here gets coated on the assumption that it is dry. ASTM F1869 calcium chloride and ASTM F2170 relative humidity probes go into the scope as a line item on a new slab as readily as an old one, because a garage slab is exempt from the vapor retarder the heated house gets, so a newer garage is not a safer one rather than a surprise after it blisters.
We open concrete with a grinder or a shot blaster to an ICRI CSP profile, we do not acid etch, and we never coat over an old sealer. A power-troweled garage slab is closed tight at the surface, so a coating laid onto it bonds to the sealer instead of the concrete and lets go in sheets rather than wearing thin.
Our summer crews start mid-morning rather than at first light. On this grid the air-to-dew spread bottoms out between 5:00 a.m. and 7:00 a.m. and does not clear 10 degrees until 9:00 a.m. or 10:00 a.m. on six of seven days, and the rule is 5 degrees above dew point at the slab, so we wait rather than trapping amine blush under a topcoat.
Warranty exclusions are read to you before the job is sold, with substrate movement and moisture named first. A crack over ground that is still working is filled with a semi-rigid polyurea as a moving joint and you are told up front it can telegraph through again, rather than being packed hard, coated over, and explained afterward.
An epoxy garage floor here runs slab inspection and moisture testing, diamond grinding or shot blasting to profile, crack and joint detail, primer, the body coat with any broadcast, then the topcoat. Each step depends on the one before it, so we give you the date you can park on it rather than the date the last coat goes down.
Before pricing a floor we establish which soil series the slab was poured on, because the ground is not the same across this service area. The hub sits almost entirely on Blackland Prairie, while cities out on the Edwards Plateau side of the ring have slope and shallow bedrock as their limiting feature instead, which changes what the crack detail has to do.
Vertisols cover 63.3 percent of Pflugerville’s soil area, and a Vertisol is defined by smectitic clay that swells wet and shrinks dry. Houston Black measures 54 percent clay with a plasticity index of 44. A slab poured on that ground rises and settles with the season, and the coating on top rides every bit of it.
We look at the crack faces before deciding anything. A settled crack has worn, closed edges and matched offsets; a working crack has sharp faces, seasonal width change and often a hairline extension past where the old filler stopped. The first can be filled hard and forgotten, and calling the second one wrong is what puts a line back through a new floor.
A crack over moving ground is treated as a joint that is still working. We rout it, fill it with a semi-rigid polyurea sized to move, and carry the coating over it knowing that it may telegraph. Filling a live crack with a hard epoxy paste and coating over it only moves the failure a few months out.
We test with ASTM F1869 calcium chloride, ASTM F2170 in-situ relative humidity probes or an ASTM D4263 plastic sheet test, and read the result against the ASTM F710 thresholds. A house built in the last twenty years is not automatically a dry one, because the code exempts garages and unheated accessory structures from the under-slab vapor retarder the heated house has to have.
We open the slab mechanically to an ICRI CSP profile, matching diamond segment bond hardness to the concrete’s own hardness so the tooling cuts rather than polishes. Power-troweled and sealed concrete presents a closed surface a coating cannot key into, which is why a film over an untouched slab comes away in sheets instead of wearing thin.
Where a slab is post-tensioned there are steel tendons under tension inside the concrete, and cutting one is a structural repair rather than a flooring problem. We locate tendons before any routing, coring or anchoring, and we keep crack routing shallow over them. On a newer subdivision this is a question worth asking rather than assuming.
Where the floor stops is what people actually look at. We terminate at the door line with a saw-cut key or a clean chamfered edge so the coating has somewhere to end, carry it up the step-down into the house, and detail around the apron rather than feathering it out to nothing that a tire can lift.
How a coating came away tells you why it went. Sheets lifting clean with a glassy back face mean it never bonded to the concrete; film that brings a thin layer of concrete with it means the slab surface itself was weak; blisters with a damp ring underneath mean vapor. We read that before quoting a replacement, because the fix differs in each case.
A blistered floor is a moisture question until proven otherwise. We cut a blister open, look for a wet or alkaline ring on the slab side, and run ASTM F1869 or ASTM F2170 on the bare concrete once the old coating is off. Recoating a blistered floor without that number is buying the same failure a second time.
A warm tire parked on a soft or under-cured film plasticizes it and lifts a patch when the car moves. It shows up on thin one-part garage paints and on epoxies that were never properly bonded, and far less on a 100% solids epoxy carried under a polyaspartic or polyurea topcoat. Mil build and a full cure before you park both matter here.
We take old coatings off with PCD tooling and diamond grinding, moving to a shot blaster where the film is thick or well bonded. The aim is to remove the coating and leave a sound, profiled slab, not to chase the film so hard that the concrete surface is torn open and has to be resurfaced before anything new can go down.
If the same line has come through two or three coatings, the slab is telling you that it moves. We stop treating it as a filling problem, open it into a proper joint, fill it with a flexible semi-rigid polyurea, and where it is severe we carry a deliberate joint through the surface so the movement has somewhere to go rather than tearing the film.
Chalk and amber are surface effects. Epoxy is not ultraviolet stable, so a floor near a west-facing door yellows and dusts while staying firmly bonded, and that is a recoat with a UV-stable polyaspartic rather than a teardown. Peeling, a hollow sound underfoot and blistering are adhesion or moisture failures, and those mean the slab has to be opened again.
Where the top of the slab has spalled or delaminated there is nothing sound to coat. We grind back to solid concrete, patch with a cementitious or epoxy mortar matched to the depth, and where the whole surface is gone we resurface it before any coating goes on. Coating a weak surface only bonds the film to the part that is about to come off.
Substrate movement leads almost every coating warranty exclusion list, followed by moisture from below, and both are conditions of the slab rather than defects in the product. We read ours out before the job is sold so that it is not a discovery. It is also why the moisture test is a line item, because it is the one exclusion you can actually buy your way out of.
A vinyl flake floor is chip broadcast into a wet base coat and locked under clear topcoats. Chip size drives how busy it reads, since a quarter-inch chip looks like texture across a room while a one-inch chip reads as pattern, and broadcast rate decides whether you see the base color at all. A full-refusal broadcast hides the slab completely.
A metallic floor is pigment suspended in a clear 100% solids epoxy and moved with rollers, brushes and air while it is still wet, so the pattern is made during the pour and cannot be corrected afterward. It needs a level, well-primed slab and a crew that has done it before, because every seam and every stop shows in the finished marbling.
Polished concrete is mechanical rather than a coating: progressive diamond grits with a lithium silicate densifier, ground to a chosen exposure. A cream finish keeps the surface paste, a salt-and-pepper cut opens fine sand, and a full aggregate exposure shows the stone. That decision is made in the first grinding pass and cannot be changed later.
Gloss reads deepest and shows every tire mark, footprint and speck of dust. Satin gives most of that depth with far less of the upkeep, and matte hides the most while making a spill harder to spot. In a garage that gets used we usually steer people to satin, because the floor that photographs best is not the floor that looks best in March.
Quartz broadcast uses colored ceramic-coated quartz instead of vinyl chip, so the color sits in a hard aggregate that also provides the texture. It builds thicker than flake, takes more abuse, and delivers slip resistance and color in one operation, which is why it turns up in commercial kitchens, locker rooms and entries rather than in living spaces.
A solid color 100% solids epoxy under a clear topcoat is the plainest system we install and often the correct one. Pattern hides dirt, and plain shows a leak the day it starts, which is exactly what you want in a shop bay, under equipment, or anywhere the floor works as a diagnostic surface rather than a decorative one.
A pool deck is walked on barefoot in August, so color is a comfort decision before it is a style one, and a dark surface on a slab already running well above air temperature is unpleasant in a way a garage floor never is. We build these with a textured, ultraviolet-stable system and keep the value light.
Epoxy is not ultraviolet stable and ambers under direct sun, which is invisible under a dark flake blend and obvious under white or gray. Anything outdoors, or inside a garage that spends the afternoon with its door open, gets a polyaspartic or polyurea topcoat that holds its color rather than an epoxy topcoat that will not.
Control joints can be honored as a design line rather than hidden, and we saw-cut deliberate lines, borders and bay divisions where the layout wants them. Inlaid logos and color bands are set between coats so they sit under the clear rather than on top of it, which is the difference between a graphic that wears off and one that does not.
On a commercial floor the specification is written before we arrive, the schedule is somebody’s shutdown window, and sign-off runs through a facilities manager or a general contractor rather than a homeowner. We submit product data, mil build and cure schedule up front, and we plan around return-to-service time, because that is usually the constraint that costs real money.
Forklift wheels concentrate load into a small contact patch and hammer every joint they cross, so the joints matter more than the field does. We fill them with a semi-rigid polyurea that supports the joint edge, build the coating thick enough to take the traffic, and detail rack base plates and aisle lines rather than coating straight over them.
Electronics, semiconductor and precision assembly work needs a floor with a controlled electrical resistance rather than an insulating one. Static-dissipative systems use a conductive primer and a grounded copper grid under a resin body coat formulated to hold its resistance range, and the installed floor is tested to that range rather than assumed to meet it.
A service bay lives with motor oil, coolant, brake fluid, battery acid and dropped tools. We build these with a chemical-resistant 100% solids epoxy at a real mil build, a topcoat chosen against the specific chemistry rather than a general-purpose one, and enough texture that the floor is still safe once something has been spilled on it.
Texas adopts the FDA Food Code 2017 through 25 TAC Chapter 228, where section 6-101.11(A) sets the smooth, durable, easily cleanable surface requirement and section 6-201.13 governs coved floor and wall junctures. We install an integral coved base so there is no joint at the wall for soil to sit in, and we build to the inspector’s reading rather than a generic spec.
The same code that requires a smooth floor writes its own exception: section 6-201.11 permits antislip floor coverings or applications used for safety reasons. That single clause is the answer to an inspector or an operator who objects to broadcast texture in a kitchen, and it is worth having in writing before the argument rather than after it.
Where a floor takes hot washdown, steam or freezer traffic, thermal shock will pull an epoxy off the slab however well it was installed, because the coating and the concrete expand at different rates. Urethane cement moves much closer to concrete’s own rate and is built thick, which is why it is the standard answer in kitchens, breweries and food plants.
We can install a floor in sections so a business keeps running, breaking the work at joints or saw lines and matching the seam into the layout. It costs more time than one continuous installation because every section carries its own edge, prep and cure window, so we price and schedule that honestly up front rather than discovering it midway.
Pflugerville Epoxy Flooring provides epoxy-flooring throughout the greater Pflugerville area, with the same crews and the same standards on every job.
Good to know
Price is driven by the condition of the slab far more than by the square footage. A sound slab that needs grinding, a primer, a flake broadcast and a topcoat sits at the low end; one that needs coating removal, crack routing, patching or moisture mitigation costs more because those are extra days of labor and materials. We give a written figure after we have seen and tested the slab, not before.
A standard two-car garage is usually a two-day installation, with prep and the body coat on the first day and the topcoat on the second. Foot traffic is generally the next day and vehicle traffic several days after that, depending on the product and the slab temperature. We give you both dates in writing, because parking on a floor that has not fully cured is a common way to ruin a new one.
No provision in the city code reaches a floor coating, so a coating on an existing slab is not a permitted activity. Structural repair to the slab itself is different: that is an alteration to the building and carries its own permit. If your slab needs structural work before it can be coated we say so, and we tell you which side of that line you are on.
Texas licenses no flooring, coatings or painting contractor at all, so there is no license to hold. The state licensing agency runs 41 programs and none of them covers this trade. What we can show you is general liability cover, workers compensation and a Texas sales and use tax permit, and we send those before the job rather than on request.
Because age is not the same as dryness. The building code has never required an under-slab vapor retarder beneath a garage slab, so a newer garage is very likely unprotected even though the heated house slab a few feet away is not. Moisture from below is the single most common cause of a coating blistering, and it is cheap to measure and expensive to discover afterward.
It can, and if the crack is over ground that is still moving we will tell you so before you sign. A coating is a film a few thousandths of an inch thick and it follows the slab, so nothing we install stops seasonal ground movement. What we do is detail the crack as a moving joint with a flexible filler so it works as a joint rather than tearing the floor open.
Epoxy is the body of the system: thick, hard, and the layer that carries the flake or quartz. Polyaspartic and polyurea are topcoats that cure faster, tolerate wider temperature and humidity conditions, and hold their color under ultraviolet light where epoxy ambers. Most of our floors use both, with the choice of topcoat driven by sunlight exposure and how quickly you need the space back.
Only if it is sound and compatible, and most are not. We never put a new coating over an old sealer, and a failing film has to come off entirely with PCD tooling, grinding or shot blasting before anything else happens. Coating over a film that is already letting go bonds your new floor to the layer that is about to fail.
We work year-round, and the heat changes the schedule rather than stopping it. Epoxies are published for application up to 100 degrees at the substrate, and a sun-loaded slab crosses that well before the air does, while dew point at the slab surface keeps a crew off it early in the morning. That is why a summer installation starts mid-morning and finishes before the slab loads.
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