How much is epoxy flooring per square foot in Toronto?

Across everything, $3 to $15 depending entirely on what the floor is for. A basement starts at $3 per square foot with Canadian Concrete Surfaces, a garage runs $4 to $12 across four firms, a commercial space $5 to $15, heavy industrial $8 to $15, and a food or pharmaceutical floor $10 to $18. Armour Guard is one of very few firms to publish a middle rather than a range, and it puts most residential work at $5 to $10 per square foot.

Why is a basement cheaper per square foot than a garage?

Mostly access and abuse. A basement floor never sees a car, road salt or a freeze-thaw cycle, so it can be specified thinner. Canadian Concrete Surfaces prices Ontario basements at $3 to $7 and Ontario garages at $4 to $8. The catch is the one thing a basement has that a garage does not: moisture pushing up through a below-grade slab, which is why a vapour barrier at $2.00 to $4.50 per square foot is a normal line on a basement quote and an unusual one on a garage.

Why does a food-grade floor cost three times a basement?

Because you are buying a different specification, not the same floor with a bigger margin. A food or pharmaceutical floor is laid thicker, coved up the wall so there is no joint for bacteria to sit in, and formulated to survive steam cleaning and daily sanitiser. Canadian Concrete Surfaces prices those at $10 to $18 per square foot against $3 to $7 for a basement. Health-regulated work is also scheduled around production, and shutdown time is money before anybody mixes resin.

Is a lower per-square-foot quote a better deal?

Not on its own, and the reason is almost always preparation. Grinding a slab properly costs $1 to $3 per square foot on top, so a quote that comes in three dollars under everyone else is often a quote that acid-etches instead of diamond-grinds. That difference does not show up for two or three winters, and when it does it shows up as the entire coating lifting rather than a patch wearing thin. Ask what surface preparation is included before comparing two numbers.

Do these rates include the HST?

No. Every firm behind these figures quotes before tax, so add 13 percent for Ontario HST across the whole invoice, materials and labour together. On a 1,000 square foot commercial floor at $8 per square foot that is $8,000 before tax and about $9,040 after. Sealcon is one of the few GTA firms that says explicitly on its own page that its rates are before tax; assume the rest are unless a quote states otherwise.

Does the rate drop on a bigger floor?

Yes, sharply, and it is the main reason a per-square-foot figure needs a size attached to be meaningful. The flat costs of a job, getting a crew and a grinder to site, masking, and the minimum booked day, do not scale with the floor. ProEpoxy's own list falls from $5 to $7 per square foot on a single garage bay to $4 to $6 on a triple. On commercial work the effect is larger still, which is why the industrial ranges here overlap the residential ones despite specifying a heavier floor.

Epoxy Flooring Cost per Square Foot, by What the Floor Is For

Last updated: August 26, 2026By EpoxyFloorIndex Research Team

The honest answer to "what does epoxy cost per square foot" is that it depends on what the floor has to survive, and the spread is nearly six to one. The same contractor prices a basement at three dollars and a food-processing floor at eighteen, and the difference is thickness, coving and chemical resistance rather than margin. Pick the application below to see the band and every firm behind it.

What does a square foot cost?

What is the floor for?

Residential garage $4 to $12Salt and freeze-thaw, not chemicals. The cheapest specification that survives here.Basement $3 to $9Moisture coming up through the slab is the whole problem, and the reason for the barrier line.Retail or commercial $5 to $15Appearance plus foot traffic, and a floor that has to be finished around opening hours.Industrial or warehouse $8 to $15Forklifts, impact and chemical spills, which means a thicker high-build system.Food or pharmaceutical $10 to $18Hygiene standards, seamless coving and steam cleaning. The dearest floor in this list.Any epoxy floor, whole market $3 to $12The full published spread, useful for sanity-checking a quote you already have.

Add anything the slab needs first

Grinding, crack repair or stain removal +$1 to $3Tear out and dispose of existing flooring +$2 to $4Moisture vapour barrier +$2 to $4.50

Residential garage

$4 to $12 per sq ft

Coating itselfMonarch Epoxy Coatings; GLI Epoxy Flooring (Ontario guide); Canadian Concrete Surfaces; ProEpoxy: $4 to $12

Know the area? Turn the rate into a total (sq ft, optional)

Before 13% HST. Every band is the widest published range across the named firms and is never an average of them. A quote below the low end is not automatically a bargain: ask what preparation it includes.

Every rate, and every source behind it

Each band on this page is built by taking the lowest low and the highest high across the rows below. Nothing is averaged. Where a firm publishes a middle of its own it is shown as one, and only two of the eight do.

Residential garage

$4 to $12

Monarch Epoxy Coatings$5 to $12
GLI Epoxy Flooring (Ontario guide)$5 to $9
Canadian Concrete Surfaces$4 to $8
ProEpoxy$4.50 to $7

Basement

$3 to $9

GLI Epoxy Flooring (Toronto guide)$5 to $9
Canadian Concrete Surfaces$3 to $7

Retail or commercial

$5 to $15

GLI Epoxy Flooring (Toronto guide)$7 to $12
Canadian Concrete Surfaces$5 to $12 · typical $7 to $10
Armour Guard$8 to $15

Industrial or warehouse

$8 to $15

GLI Epoxy Flooring (Toronto guide)$10 to $15
Canadian Concrete Surfaces$8 to $15

Food or pharmaceutical

$10 to $18

Canadian Concrete Surfaces$10 to $18

Any epoxy floor, whole market

$3 to $12

GLI Epoxy Flooring (Toronto guide)$5 to $12
Armour Guard$4 to $12 · typical $5 to $10
Canadian Concrete Surfaces$3 to $12
Canada Chemicals and Coatings$5 to $12

The two firms that publish a middle, and why that is rare

Almost every coating company publishes a range and stops there, which is honest: the price genuinely depends on the slab, and a single number invites an argument later. Two of the firms here go further and state where most of their work actually lands, and those are the only two midpoints anywhere on this page.

$5 to $12, typically $7 to $10Commercial application, Ontario · Canadian Concrete Surfaces
$4 to $12, typically $5 to $10Any application, GTA installed · Armour Guard

Everywhere else on EpoxyFloorIndex a range is reported as a range. If a source gives a low and a high and no middle, computing one and printing it would be inventing a figure that firm never quoted, and it would look exactly as authoritative as the two above, which are real.

Frequently asked questions

How much is epoxy flooring per square foot in Toronto?: Across everything, $3 to $15 depending entirely on what the floor is for. A basement starts at $3 per square foot with Canadian Concrete Surfaces, a garage runs $4 to $12 across four firms, a commercial space $5 to $15, heavy industrial $8 to $15, and a food or pharmaceutical floor $10 to $18. Armour Guard is one of very few firms to publish a middle rather than a range, and it puts most residential work at $5 to $10 per square foot.
Why is a basement cheaper per square foot than a garage?: Mostly access and abuse. A basement floor never sees a car, road salt or a freeze-thaw cycle, so it can be specified thinner. Canadian Concrete Surfaces prices Ontario basements at $3 to $7 and Ontario garages at $4 to $8. The catch is the one thing a basement has that a garage does not: moisture pushing up through a below-grade slab, which is why a vapour barrier at $2.00 to $4.50 per square foot is a normal line on a basement quote and an unusual one on a garage.
Why does a food-grade floor cost three times a basement?: Because you are buying a different specification, not the same floor with a bigger margin. A food or pharmaceutical floor is laid thicker, coved up the wall so there is no joint for bacteria to sit in, and formulated to survive steam cleaning and daily sanitiser. Canadian Concrete Surfaces prices those at $10 to $18 per square foot against $3 to $7 for a basement. Health-regulated work is also scheduled around production, and shutdown time is money before anybody mixes resin.
Is a lower per-square-foot quote a better deal?: Not on its own, and the reason is almost always preparation. Grinding a slab properly costs $1 to $3 per square foot on top, so a quote that comes in three dollars under everyone else is often a quote that acid-etches instead of diamond-grinds. That difference does not show up for two or three winters, and when it does it shows up as the entire coating lifting rather than a patch wearing thin. Ask what surface preparation is included before comparing two numbers.
Do these rates include the HST?: No. Every firm behind these figures quotes before tax, so add 13 percent for Ontario HST across the whole invoice, materials and labour together. On a 1,000 square foot commercial floor at $8 per square foot that is $8,000 before tax and about $9,040 after. Sealcon is one of the few GTA firms that says explicitly on its own page that its rates are before tax; assume the rest are unless a quote states otherwise.
Does the rate drop on a bigger floor?: Yes, sharply, and it is the main reason a per-square-foot figure needs a size attached to be meaningful. The flat costs of a job, getting a crew and a grinder to site, masking, and the minimum booked day, do not scale with the floor. ProEpoxy's own list falls from $5 to $7 per square foot on a single garage bay to $4 to $6 on a triple. On commercial work the effect is larger still, which is why the industrial ranges here overlap the residential ones despite specifying a heavier floor.

Sources

Every rate read from the linked page in August 2026. The basement band rests on two firms rather than three, which is thinner evidence than the rest of this page and is said here rather than hidden.