Garage Floor Coating in Lake Stevens, WA
Lake life is wet. Boats drip, kids drip, and the bare slab your builder left soaks up every drop. Our garage floor coating gives it what it never got: diamond-ground prep, full vinyl flake and a clear topcoat that wipes clean. We test every slab for moisture, new ones too, and your estimate at the house is free.
- Free estimate at home
- New slabs tested too
- Park in 72 hours
- Lifetime adhesion warranty
Your Lake Stevens garage floor coating
Task Force Garage brings its garage floor coating all over Lake Stevens, from new builds on Cavalero Hill to older homes by the lake. We diamond-grind your slab, then build the floor in three layers: a polyurea base coat, full vinyl flake and a clear polyaspartic topcoat. The estimate is free, at your house, and opens with a moisture test.
Pricing out epoxy flooring in Lake Stevens? Our floor is the step up from epoxy, with the same diamond-ground prep and flake look. It cures faster and won't yellow in the sun. It also flexes as a young slab settles, and you're parking on it in three days, where epoxy can keep you out for a week.
A dry slab takes one working day, or two if yours needs our moisture barrier primer, which cures overnight. You can carry boxes across it the next morning, and the car goes back in after 72 hours.
Comparing garage floor coating companies in Lake Stevens? You get a written, itemized price and a lifetime adhesion warranty. Take all the time you want to decide.
Your builder left you a bare slab
About two in three Lake Stevens homes went up after 1990. New streets keep climbing Cavalero Hill and Soper Hill and filling in along 20th Street SE. If yours is one of them, your garage floor is builder-grade concrete that has never been sealed.
That's a good start for a coating, with no old paint to strip and little wear to fix. The work is in what the builder left behind: a troweled finish too smooth to grip, sometimes a curing film, and hairline cracks that open as new concrete dries.
Our diamond grinders open the finish and strip any film. Then the cracks get filled and ground flush. If your slab was poured last month, give it about 28 days before any coating goes on, ours included.
The easiest garage to coat is an empty one. If you're still closing on the house, book the week before the moving truck.
Does your boat winter in the garage?
If you boat here, you know the lake runs counter-clockwise. Fewer people think about what the boat does to the garage once it comes home for the off-season. Here's what it does to a bare floor, and what ours does about it.
Drips
Lake water
Water runs off your hull and trailer for days. Bare concrete soaks it up, while our topcoat holds it on top for your squeegee.
Spills
Fuel and oil
Your outboard or jet ski leaves a few drips over a winter. On a coated floor you wipe them up with a rag before they set into a dark stain.
Weight
The tongue jack
Your tongue jack puts the trailer's weight on one small wheel. Flake hides scuffs, and a plywood scrap under the jack spares your floor.
Gear
Wet life jackets
Life jackets, towels and your dog all come in dripping. The anti-slip grit in our topcoat keeps your footing on a wet floor.
Want your floor done before the boat comes home? Book in late summer or early fall, while it's still on the water. Fall dates are easier to get than spring ones, too.
Why we test a brand-new slab too
Your new concrete can still be wet concrete. Much of Lake Stevens sits on glacial till, packed dense by the old ice sheet, and rain that can't soak through it stays close to your slab all winter.
What's under your slab
- Dense glacial till a couple of feet down, with winter rain perched on top of it from late fall into spring.
- Often no plastic sheet, since the state code doesn't require one under your garage.
What we do about it
- We meter your slab before we quote, even if it was poured last year.
- If yours reads high, the barrier primer goes on first and cures overnight. Premium includes it at no extra charge.
Home from the trestle, still dripping
If your day starts in the trestle backup, your car leaves in the dark and comes home wet. Nearly one in five working Lake Stevens adults spends an hour or more getting to work.
Road spray and winter deicer ride home on your tires and dry on the slab overnight. Bare concrete soaks them in. On our floor they sit on top, and you squeegee them out before you leave again.
Your garage also becomes whatever the house needs next: the bike and stroller corner, a rowing machine, the overflow pantry. A floor that wipes clean makes every one of those easier to live with.
Your install, from grinder to boxes
A dry slab is one working day. Here's that day, and the one thing that changes if your slab reads wet.
Test, grind, prime
We meter your slab, grind it open and fill the cracks. If it reads wet, the barrier primer goes on and cures overnight.
Base coat and flake
Down goes the polyurea base, and we throw vinyl flake into it until none of your gray slab shows.
Clear topcoat
We sweep up the loose flake and roll the clear topcoat on, anti-slip grit mixed in, so your floor grips when it's wet.
Boxes, then the car
Carry your boxes in the next morning. Park after 72 hours, and go easy for a week while it finishes hardening.
Garage floor coating cost in Lake Stevens
We put your exact number in writing after we see the slab. Until then, here's where most pro-installed floors fall around Seattle.
- $1.6K–$5.8Ka typical two-car garage
- $2.5K–$10Ka typical three-car garage
A newer slab usually needs less crack repair and has no old coating to grind off. Size moves your total most, though a bigger garage usually costs less per square foot. Next comes the barrier, if your slab reads wet. Premium bundles the barrier with a flake design session, cove base, coated steps where you have them and a one-year checkup.
Here's everything in Premium, and the cost guide breaks prices down by garage size.
Lake Stevens neighborhoods we cover
We cover all of Lake Stevens, ZIP code 98258, from the lake shore up into the newest subdivisions.
- By the lake
- Downtown
- North Cove
- West side
- 20th Street SE
- Frontier Village
- Cavalero Hill
- Soper Hill
- East side
- Hartford
- Lochsloy
- Machias
Address reads Everett or Snohomish? If you live up here, you're covered too, and so are our neighbors in Snohomish, Marysville and Everett.
The same floor in other rooms
Your mudroom, basement or covered walkway gets wet too, and the same flake concrete coating works there. See basement floors, patios and walkways, or the full gallery.
Lake Stevens garage floor questions
How much does garage floor coating cost in Lake Stevens?
Most two-car garages in the Seattle area land between $1,600 and $5,800 for a pro-installed floor, and three-car garages run higher. A newer slab usually needs less repair, so size, the moisture barrier and extras like coated steps move your number most. Your exact price comes in writing after the free estimate.
Is epoxy flooring a good idea for a new Lake Stevens home?
The flake look is a great idea. We get it with the step up from epoxy: a polyurea base coat, full flake and a clear polyaspartic topcoat over a diamond-ground slab. Next to plain epoxy, it cures faster, flexes as a young slab settles and won't yellow in the sun. Your car goes back in on day three, not day seven. Epoxy, compared honestly.
How soon can a new garage slab be coated?
Fresh concrete needs about 28 days to cure before any coating goes on, ours included. After that, the moisture test decides. A young slab on wet winter ground can still read high, and then our barrier primer goes on first. If you're building, tell us your pour date and we'll plan around it. More on coating new concrete.
Will the floor hold up to a boat and trailer?
Yes. Our topcoat handles tires, drips and a parked trailer, and lake water wipes right off. A tongue jack puts a lot of weight on one small wheel, so set a scrap of plywood under it. Full flake hides small scuffs, and the lifetime adhesion warranty covers the coating's bond to your slab.
Does a brand-new garage need a moisture test?
Yes. Washington's building code doesn't require plastic under a garage slab, and much of Lake Stevens sits on dense glacial till that holds winter rain near the surface. So even a new slab can pull moisture up. We test every slab at the estimate and tell you right then whether yours needs the barrier.
Can you coat the garage before we move in?
That's the easiest time to do it. With the garage empty, one working day is usually enough on a dry slab. You can carry boxes across it the next morning and park three days after we finish. The floor keeps hardening for about a week, so roll heavy things gently at first.
Is a coated garage floor slippery when it's wet?
Our clear topcoat has anti-slip grit in it, and the flake under it adds texture, so wet shoes and dripping life jackets don't turn it into a rink. Any smooth floor gets slicker when wet. If you want more grip by the door or under the boat, ask, and we'll go heavier on the grit there.
Do you cover Cavalero Hill and Soper Hill?
Yes, and the rest of Lake Stevens too: downtown and North Cove, the lake shore, Frontier Village, 20th Street SE, Hartford, Lochsloy and Machias. In a new subdivision up there? Tell us your move-in date, and we'll try to fit your floor in before the truck. Next door we cover Snohomish, Marysville and Everett too. Not sure about your street? Call and ask.
See what your Lake Stevens slab needs
We measure, meter your slab and write your price down item by item, usually in about 20 minutes. Every floor carries a lifetime adhesion warranty, and there's no pressure to sign.