Two things get checked before anything is quoted. The first is what the floor is built on. A good part of Burbank's older housing sits on a raised wood foundation, and epoxy needs concrete to bond to, so on those streets the candidate rooms are usually the additions at the back, the den, the laundry, or a garage that has been brought into the house. The second is what is currently covering the concrete, and what usually sets the length of the preparation is not the tile or the vinyl but the glue underneath it. Grinding then opens the slab up, done under vacuum extraction because this is a room in a building that is still occupied. Cracks and failed old patches get routed out and packed level. Where the concrete reads damp from below, a vapor barrier coat of epoxy is put down over the bare slab first, because a floor laid over moisture that is still on the move will let go no matter what it cost.
From there the floor goes on in three coats. A pigmented base goes into the ground concrete first, epoxy or polyaspartic, whichever fits how quickly the room has to go back into use. Color or flake drops in while that coat is still open, and a clear polyaspartic seal closes the floor, taking the wear from that point on. Interiors run room by room so the rest of the building stays in service, and the floor will hold footfall the same evening and furniture a good while later. That timing counts for more in Burbank than it might elsewhere, because a fair share of the interiors we coat are rooms somebody works out of, and polyaspartic takes time out of both of those waits. It is the same three-pass build we put down everywhere.
The base and the seal stay the same wherever the floor is going. The pass in the middle is the one that changes, and it is the part you end up living alongside. Tones and chip blends settle much faster with a sample in your hand than on a screen.
Chips broadcast into a wet epoxy base give a lightly textured surface that conceals a great deal, and in a utility room, a hallway or a shop floor that is precisely the point, because grit, dust and scuffing stop registering as events. It is also the gentlest of the three on concrete that has been patched, since the blend is busier than anything sitting under it. Past the door into the garage the answer changes, because that slab holds a car and everything that comes off it.
A single tone reads as a finished surface rather than a treated one, and it is what people pick for a room meant to look deliberate: a studio, a showroom, a consulting room. It is also the least tolerant of the three, because a flat epoxy color will show a ripple or an old patch that flake would have hidden completely. On concrete that is sound and properly prepared it is the most striking finish we lay.
Metallic work is pigment suspended in epoxy and then moved by hand as it cures, which is why every one of them comes out differently and why nobody will offer you an exact preview. That rules it out of a laundry and rules it into a room where the floor is doing some of the design work. Entrances, bars and studios are where it usually ends up, and it needs concrete in good condition to sit on.
An interior quote rests on three answers: what is on the slab today, which build is going over it, and whether that particular room is a candidate for a coating in the first place. The first two are read off the concrete, not off a price list.
Square footage opens the figure and then stops being the main factor. Interiors are full of edges, and doorways, corners, thresholds and cabinet lines all have to be cut in by hand, so five small rooms cost more than one open space covering the same area. What is being removed counts too. Vinyl sheet lifts in an afternoon, while tile set in thickset mortar can take a day on its own. And a slab that has genuinely settled rather than simply worn needs bringing back to level first, which is its own line on the quote.
An epoxy base sealed with polyaspartic is what most interiors get, and it costs the least of the three ways to get there. Going polyaspartic top to bottom raises the cost and cuts the downtime, which is the argument that carries weight in an office or a studio that cannot stand empty for a week. Metallic epoxy is dearer again, because it is placed by hand and there is no way to hurry that.
A few rooms are better off without a coating, and it is cheaper to be told so at the estimate than afterwards. Where the concrete is already flat, sound and clean, polishing it is the cheaper answer and leaves nothing on top that can chip away. Where the room sits on a wood subfloor there is nothing for epoxy to bond to, so it is not a candidate at any price. And where the slab is pushing moisture upward, that gets resolved first or the floor will lift and the coating will be blamed for it.
With all three answered the number is a number rather than a range. Interior epoxy work in Burbank generally lands at $5 to $7 per square foot, and a single room is usually one day on site. We hold a 5.0 rating from 120+ reviews and the calendar is normally a couple of weeks out. Send through the room dimensions and a photo of the existing floor, or call (818) 359-3932.
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