CoatQuote is a pricing tool built for one trade. It turns a walkthrough into a priced, branded proposal in about a minute, resolving material quantities from real coverage math, forcing every slab condition to a priced line, and protecting your margin on the way out. Your materials, your costs, your market.
Why spreadsheet and pen-and-paper epoxy quoting loses money
Most coating contractors price from a spreadsheet they built once and a number they carry in their head. It works until it doesn't. The three failures are always the same, and they compound.
None of these are arithmetic errors. They're structural: the quote has nowhere to record the thing that costs you money.
What the pricing engine actually does
Order matters. Each stage feeds the next, and the engine won't let you skip the one that loses you money.
Area, space, system and finish. Then flag every slab condition: cracks, spalling, oil, existing coating, moisture.
Every flag forces a tier. Cracks by linear foot, spalling by square foot, contamination, unevenness: each one gets priced instead of forgotten.
Materials, labor, prep and mobilization, then overhead and margin. Or flip to per-SF mode for an instant figure.
Send the instant estimate now; bind the signed quote only after the slab assessment. Never price a floor sight-unseen.
Material quantities are derived, not estimated. The engine reads volume solids and target mil thickness off each product's technical data sheet, works out true coverage in square feet per gallon, applies broadcast density for flake and quartz systems, and rounds up to whole kits against your wholesale costs. Change a price once and every system, and every future quote, reprices instantly.
This matters more than it sounds. Two products that both call themselves "100% solids" can differ in recommended film thickness, and a coat specified at 12 mil covers barely half the floor that the same gallon covers at 6 mil. A quote built on "about four kits" absorbs that difference silently; a quote built on the data sheet doesn't.
Moisture is handled the same way: an RH or MVER result routes the job to a standard primer, an MME primer, or a flat-fee vapor barrier before it can wreck the buildup. Slab moisture is the failure that comes back as a warranty claim two years later, so it is priced at intake rather than discovered on install day.
What epoxy flooring actually costs per square foot
These are the benchmarks CoatQuote ships with so you're calibrated on day one. They exist to seed a model, not to set your prices. Slab condition, local labor rates and your own material costs move them significantly.
| System | Benchmark installed range |
|---|---|
| Solid-color epoxy | $3–6 / SF |
| Decorative flake | $5–8 / SF |
| Quartz broadcast | $7–14 / SF |
| Metallic / designer | $8–15 / SF |
| Polyaspartic | $5–12 / SF |
Whole-job aggregated homeowner data puts the national average for an epoxy floor around $2,227, with a typical range of $1,447–$3,006. Every figure here is benchmarked against published contractor and cost-guide sources. See the full source list and methodology.
What you get
A quoting tool for this trade has to do more than format a number. It needs the product catalog the number is derived from, somewhere to record slab condition, and a way to get the finished proposal in front of the customer while you're still standing on their driveway.
Unlimited quotes, your logo and colors, ready to hand over or email.
Build every system you sell, each with its own recipe. Cost, coverage and mil thickness live on the material.
Upload a product's TDS PDF and the specs autofill. Review, set your cost, done.
The mobile app runs the same engine on-site: walk the slab, flag conditions, hand over a signable number before you leave.
Regional multipliers, volume breaks past ~1,000 SF, job minimums and an off-season lever.
Drop the estimator on your own site so visitors price themselves into your inbox.
Versus spreadsheets and generic estimating software
Most coating contractors arrive here from one of two places: a spreadsheet they built themselves, or a general-purpose construction estimating package bought for a different trade. Both work, in the sense that a number comes out. The question is what happens when the slab isn't clean, the product changes, or a second estimator quotes the job.
| Spreadsheet | Generic estimating | CoatQuote | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Coverage from volume solids & mils | Manual | No | Built in |
| Slab-condition prep matrix | Remembered | No | Enforced |
| Consistent across estimators | No | Partly | Yes |
| Branded proposal out the other end | No | Yes | Yes |
| Quote on-site from a phone | No | Rarely | Yes |
Generic estimating tools give you a better-formatted blank page. They don't know what volume solids means and have no opinion about an oily slab. Everything coating-specific is still yours to encode, and to maintain.
Frequently asked
Epoxy flooring quoting software prices a floor-coating job from its physical inputs rather than a rule of thumb. You enter the area, the system you're installing and the condition of the slab; the software resolves material quantities from each product's coverage rate and target mil thickness, prices the prep work, adds labor, overhead and margin, and produces a branded quote you can hand to the customer. The point is repeatability: every estimator on the crew prices the same job the same way.
There are two defensible methods and CoatQuote runs both. Per-square-foot pricing multiplies the area by an installed rate for that system and is fast enough to use in a driveway. Cost-up pricing builds the number from parts: materials computed from real coverage math, plus prep, labor, mobilization, overhead and your margin. Per-SF is for the instant estimate; cost-up is what you should stand behind on a binding quote.
Yes. CoatQuote is in open beta right now: sign up and you get the complete product free while we're in beta, then $9.99/mo for either plan, including the full cost-up engine, branded PDF quotes and the prep matrix. No credit card at signup and nothing to cancel. The public calculator is free to use with no account at all. All we ask is brief feedback along the way.
Installed US national averages for 2026 run roughly $3–6/SF for solid-color epoxy, $5–8/SF for decorative flake, $7–14/SF for quartz broadcast, $8–15/SF for metallic, and $5–12/SF for polyaspartic. Those are benchmarks for seeding a model, not prices to quote. Slab condition, local labor and your own material costs move them significantly. The full source list is on our pricing sources page.
Yes. The mobile field app runs the same engine on-site, so you can walk the slab, flag conditions as you find them, and hand the customer a signable number before you leave the driveway, with no trip back to the office to build the quote.
Generic estimating tools give you a blank spreadsheet with better formatting. They don't know what volume solids means, won't convert a mil thickness into gallons, and have no opinion about an oily slab. CoatQuote is built for one trade, so the coating-specific logic (coverage math, the prep matrix, moisture routing) is already in the tool rather than something you have to encode yourself.
That's the part most quotes get wrong. Every condition you flag (cracks, spalling, oil contamination, unevenness, an existing coating, moisture) resolves to a priced line through the prep matrix. Prep cannot silently default to zero, which is the single most common way a coating job loses its margin.
Priced like a tool, not a tax
Free while we're in beta, then $9.99/mo for either plan, with no credit card at signup. Or open the live calculator and put a real job through it right now, no account needed.