Epoxy and concrete coatings built for Houston concrete.
From Memorial luxury garages to Midtown restaurant kitchens, Energy Corridor warehouses to Galleria retail pads, Elite Coatings installs floors that hold up to Houston traffic, Houston humidity, and Houston schedules. Prep-first. Written warranty. Local owner on site.
The systems we actually install inside Loop 610 and across the Houston metro.
Houston covers a lot of ground. The slab under a Memorial garage is not the slab under a Galleria retail store and is not the slab under an Energy Corridor warehouse. Every estimate starts with a moisture test and a substrate inspection, then we spec the system that actually fits the floor, the traffic, and the environment. No one-size-fits-all package.
Metallic Epoxy for Luxury Houston Garages+
Memorial, River Oaks, Tanglewood, West University: custom-home garages where the floor gets photographed. Metallic epoxy produces a mirror-gloss finish with swirled pearlescent pigments, and no two floors are ever identical. The trade-off is that metallic is the most technically demanding system we install. A single piece of drywall dust or a misread humidity cue compromises the whole finish.
We seal the work zone, run HEPA filtration, and stage a dedicated mixing corner that never sees foot traffic. Pricing starts around $10/sq ft because the material and labor intensity justify it. See the metallic epoxy page for system details.
Flake Epoxy for Garages and Commercial+
The workhorse. Chip-broadcast flake hides tire marks, reads slip-resistant underfoot, and handles the daily abuse of a Houston garage or a commercial kitchen. Heights, Oak Forest, Bellaire residential garages ship most often in charcoal, beach-stone, or earth-tone blends. Commercial flake goes chemical-rated for auto shops and restaurant back-of-house.
Pricing starts around $6/sq ft with proper prep, a real moisture barrier, and a commercial-grade polyaspartic topcoat. Residential install is usually a one-to-two-day job with next-day foot traffic.
Polished Concrete for Warehouses and Retail+
Energy Corridor, North Harris, West Houston warehouses and distribution facilities. Polished concrete is the long-game system: multi-step diamond grinding followed by densification and burnishing. The slab becomes the finish floor. No coating to peel. Life-of-the-building durability if the slab is prepped and polished right.
Runs about $5/sq ft starting, scales well on large commercial square footage, and shines on Houston-area warehouse projects where forklifts and thermal cycling would eat through a standard coating in a few years.
Solid Color Epoxy for Commercial Back-of-House+
Clean, flat-color finish with chemical durability. Offices, storage mezzanines, light industrial, retail stockrooms. One caveat: solid color is the least forgiving finish for dust and slab imperfections. Any particle that lands in the wet film shows up forever. We schedule solid-color installs in controlled conditions and tape off adjacent zones.
Commercial Night-Shift Installs+
Midtown, Downtown, and Galleria-area restaurants and retail can’t shut down for three days mid-week. We run commercial projects on night shifts and fast-cure polyaspartic systems: close at 10 PM, grind-prep-coat overnight, open at lunch. We’ve done this from Post Oak to Washington Avenue to Montrose.
Commercial epoxy details here, or request a Houston commercial quote and we’ll walk the site off-hours.
Exterior Concrete for Pool Decks and Patios+
Houston backyards get sun, heat, and the occasional freeze-thaw swing. Exterior coatings have to be UV-stable, slip-rated, and flexible enough to ride slab movement. We install polyaspartic and specialty exterior systems for pool decks, patios, driveways, and walkways in Bellaire, West U, and the inner-Loop neighborhoods with mature lots.
Local owner. Written warranty. Zero lifetime-warranty theater.
Justin Thurmon owns the shop and still walks every Houston residential slab. The Elite crew is two to three installers plus Justin, and the person who writes your estimate is the person who grinds your floor. That continuity is why our warranty callbacks across the Houston metro are nearly zero.
We’ve installed floors across Memorial, Heights, Midtown, Galleria, Energy Corridor, Bellaire, Oak Forest, and the inner-Loop neighborhoods. Every one of those zip codes has a different slab story, different moisture profile, and different traffic load. That’s why we don’t quote from a spec sheet. We quote from your slab.
Real floors, real names, real zip codes.
“Two other Houston contractors wanted to skip the moisture test on my Memorial garage. Justin ran it first, spec’d a moisture mitigation layer, and the floor has held two summers without a single bubble. Worth the extra line item.”
Kevin L. · Memorial, Houston · Metallic garage, 800 sq ft“We run a restaurant in Midtown. Elite came in at midnight, prepped, coated, and topcoat-cured by our 11 AM open. Chemical-rated floor, slip-rated, clean seam at the drain. Professional job.”
Alicia R. · Midtown · Commercial flake, 1,600 sq ft“Polished concrete for a 12,000 sq ft Energy Corridor warehouse. Came in under budget, opened on the committed Monday, and still looks mirror-flat after a full year of forklift traffic.”
Troy M. · Energy Corridor“Flake garage in Oak Forest. Got three quotes. Justin was in the middle but the only one who brought a moisture meter to the walkthrough. The floor looks exactly the same as install day two years in.”
Dana P. · Oak Forest“Elite did our Heights retail stockroom during a four-day shutdown. Clean flat finish, no drips at the thresholds, no smell once we opened. I’ll use them again for the second store.”
Miguel C. · Heights · Solid color epoxy, 2,400 sq ftHouston, TX and surrounding Harris County neighborhoods.
Questions we hear from Houston homeowners and operators.
Do you handle jobs inside Loop 610 and in the Galleria area specifically?
Yes. Inner-Loop Houston is our daily territory. We’ve installed floors in Memorial, River Oaks, Tanglewood, Heights, Midtown, Montrose, Galleria, Bellaire, West University, and Oak Forest. We coordinate around HOAs and deed-restricted subdivisions when the install calls for it, and we can stage equipment in driveways or adjacent parking as needed.
How does Houston humidity affect epoxy installations?
Humidity shifts cure times and changes how a coating wets out on the slab. Over about 85% relative humidity we delay the topcoat window. Under about 55% we can run back-to-back faster. Most Houston summer installs happen early morning; we schedule around the humidity curve rather than fighting it.
Do Houston slabs really need a moisture mitigation layer?
Many do. Houston sits on expansive clay with a shallow water table in a lot of neighborhoods. We run a calcium chloride test and a relative humidity probe reading on every slab. If the reading says the slab is moving water, we spec a standalone moisture mitigation layer. Most of the region passes; a meaningful minority does not. We tell you either way before we write the quote.
Can you run Houston restaurant and retail installs overnight?
Yes. Commercial projects in Midtown, Galleria, Downtown, and Post Oak often run on a night-shift schedule with fast-cure polyaspartic systems. We close your space at 10 PM, grind-prep-coat overnight, and you open the next morning. We’ve done restaurant, retail, and back-of-house work this way. Contact us with your window and we’ll scope it.
What’s pricing like for a typical Houston residential garage?
Flake and solid color epoxy start around $6 per square foot. Metallic epoxy starts around $10. Polished concrete starts around $5. Every number assumes proper prep, a real moisture barrier, and a commercial-grade topcoat. We publish pricing openly because we don’t play the bait-and-switch game other Houston contractors run.
How long does a Houston garage install take?
One to two days on most residential flake or solid color garages. Next-day foot traffic. Full cure for vehicles and heavy loads at about 72 hours. Commercial timing depends on square footage and whether we’re running day or night shifts.
Can I see examples of your Houston-area work?
Yes. Browse the gallery for recent installs across Memorial, Heights, Galleria, and Energy Corridor. We can also send slab-specific reference photos during your estimate so you see comparable conditions.
Ready to put a real floor in your Houston space?
Call Justin. Walk your slab. Get a written number. No sales pitch, no “lock the price today” nonsense, no fake warranties.