Epoxy garage floors, driveways, patios and interior slabs across Orange County, from Brea and Yorba Linda down to Irvine and Newport Beach. We're based in Corona, just over the county line on the 91, and the same small crew that quotes your floor installs it. Free on-site estimate. 10-year material and craftsmanship warranty.
Garage floors are most of what we do. A typical Orange County job is a two- or three-car garage: we diamond grind the slab, repair the cracks and spalling, lay a color flake epoxy system and seal it under a UV-stable polyaspartic topcoat. On most garages that is one day on site, with foot traffic in about 8 hours and cars back on at 48.
What changes across the county is the slab we find when we get there. A 1960s Anaheim tract garage has decades of oil in it. A new Irvine or Tustin Legacy pour still carries the builder's curing compound. A Newport Beach slab is fighting salt air on top and moisture from below, and a hillside Brea garage is usually post-tensioned, which rules out drilling or coring. Each one fails a different way if it is coated the same way, so we test the slab first and set the prep by what it tells us.
The same system goes outside. Driveways, patios, pool decks and walkways get the flake finish for grip when they are wet, and the polyaspartic topcoat holds its color in full sun where a plain epoxy would yellow.
Concrete doesn't have to stay hidden under carpet. Under the flooring in most Orange County homes is a sound slab, whether it is an original 1950s pour in Anaheim or Fullerton or a builder slab in one of Irvine's newer villages. Once the carpet or tile is up, that slab can become the finished floor: seamless, quick to sweep, with nothing for dirt to settle into.
What makes that worth doing is how the floor is built. Every other option is a separate material laid over your slab. A coating isn't laid on the concrete. It is ground into it, and it cures as one continuous surface with nothing to lift, catch, or come apart at a seam.
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Orange County is one county and at least six different kinds of slab. Where your home sits tells us most of what we will find before we arrive, and it decides the prep.
Salt air works on the surface and ground moisture pushes up from underneath, so a coastal slab is attacked from both sides. We moisture test every one and lay a vapor barrier primer where the readings call for it. The tight alley-access garages in Corona del Mar's flower streets and on the Balboa Peninsula get the same system, planned around the access.
Much of north Orange County was built out between the 1950s and the 70s, and those garage slabs have had half a century of oil and patching. Many were part-converted to living space along the way, leaving two slab histories in one room. We grind the contamination out, rebuild the spalling and resurface rather than replace.
Hillside tracts sit on graded pads, and many of the newer ones are post-tensioned, with steel cables under tension inside the slab. We never drill, core or anchor into one. Prep is grinding only, cracks are filled with a material that tolerates movement, and the deep tandem and three-car garages common up here are planned for storage-heavy use.
Old Towne's detached garages can be a century old, poured straight onto the ground with no vapor barrier under them. Moisture comes up through those slabs all year, so they are tested and stabilized before anything is coated, or the floor lifts from underneath.
Newer slabs are structurally sound but still carry the builder's curing compound, and a coating will not bond through it. We grind it off completely. In Irvine's villages the HOA usually approves the color first, so we bring physical samples to the estimate for the application.
Larger lots bring larger floors: oversized garages, detached workshops and, on the equestrian properties, barns, tack rooms and wash-down areas. We spec the system for the heaviest load and the harshest cleaning that floor will actually see, not for an average garage.
Three systems cover almost every home we coat. Flake goes outside, metallic goes inside, and solid color works in either when you want the floor to stay quiet. All three are epoxy and polyaspartic systems, all three go down over ground and prepared concrete, and all three carry the same 10-year warranty. What changes is the texture, the look, and where each one belongs. Tell us the room and we will tell you which one fits it.
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One even color, no movement, no pattern. It suits laundry rooms, pantries, mud rooms, and hallways where you want the concrete bright and clean rather than decorative. Low maintenance: sweep and mop, no waxing and no resealing. It is also the most straightforward of the three to install.
Our main floor system, and the one that goes outside. Color flake is broadcast into the wet epoxy, then locked under a UV-stable polyaspartic topcoat. The texture gives grip when the surface is wet and hides dust and tire marks between cleans. Pick your blend from the color chart, or we will bring samples out with the estimate.
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Our interior finish. Pigment moves through the resin as it cures, so the pattern is settled on site and no two floors finish alike. It suits living rooms, entryways, kitchens, and home gyms. Metallic colors are worth seeing in person before you choose, and we can bring them to the estimate.
A coating is only as good as the slab under it, and across a county this varied the slab is the one thing we never assume.
We diamond grind every surface before anything goes down, which opens the concrete so the coating bonds into it rather than sitting on top. Then we treat the slab we actually found. Oil is drawn out of an old north county floor, curing compound comes off a new Irvine pour, a coastal or Old Towne slab gets a moisture reading and a vapor barrier primer where it needs one, and a post-tensioned hillside slab is ground, never drilled. Cracks are chased and filled, control joints are honored, and spalled edges are rebuilt.
Skip that work and the floor lets go at the bond line. It peels where the oil was left in, lifts where moisture was coming up, and pulls away under hot tires where the curing compound was never ground off. Putting it right costs more than doing it properly the first time.
That is why every residential floor we install carries a 10-year material and craftsmanship warranty. Evolve Epoxy is licensed, bonded and insured under Lic. #1084974.
If you want to know what your own slab actually needs, call (951) 454-6688 or schedule a free estimate and we'll come look at it.
High standards protect you from low-quality experiences. We are a small, family-owned crew run by Steve Monroe, based in Corona just over the Orange County line, and the people who quote your floor are the people who grind, coat and finish it, whether the job is in Brea or Newport Beach.
We open the concrete with diamond grinders so the coating bonds into the slab instead of sitting on top of it. No acid etching, and no shortcuts on the part of the job you cannot see once it is finished.
Every residential floor carries our 10-year material and craftsmanship warranty. The full terms sit on our Terms and Conditions page, so you can read them before you commit to anything.
Lic. #1084974, held in California. Worth asking any contractor for their number before work starts on your property, and worth checking that it is current.
Not a franchise and not a call center. You deal with the same small crew from the first visit through to the final coat, and you can ask them questions while they work.
We come out, measure, look at the condition of the slab, and give you a real number. No charge for the visit, no obligation, and no pressure to book on the spot.
Military, veteran, and first responder discounts are available. Ask for details when you book your estimate and we will apply it to your quote.
It comes down to three things:
1. the square footage,
2. the condition of the slab, and the finish you choose.
A spalled driveway needs far more prep than a clean laundry room, and prep is where the labor sits, so two jobs of the same size can price differently. We do not guess over the phone. We measure on site, look at the concrete, and give you a fixed number with no charge for the visit.
Call us or fill in our free quote form and we will book a time that suits you.
One day on site for most two- and three-car garages: grind and repair first, then coat and topcoat through the day. A garage with a failed old coating to remove, or a lot of crack and spall repair, can run to a second day, and we will tell you that at the estimate rather than on the morning.
Foot traffic in about 8 hours, and cars back on at 48. Cure times stretch in cold or damp weather, which on the coast can mean a little longer, and we will give you the real schedule on the day.
North and central Orange County and down the coast to Newport Beach and Corona del Mar. If your city isn't named on this page, call and ask before assuming we don't cover it.
Not over it, no. A new floor is only ever as well stuck down as the layer under it, and a coating that is peeling has already let go. We grind the old system off completely, back to sound concrete, then treat the slab on its own merits before the new floor goes down. It is common on DIY kits and builder coatings that were rolled onto an unground slab.
Military, veteran, and first responder discounts available. Ask for details.
Garage floors are our flagship, and most Orange County cities we work in have their own garage page, all listed on our service areas page. We also coat commercial and industrial floors across the county.
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