Garage floors · Mesa, ArizonaCollector garages · Scottsdale, ArizonaA new garage floor in one day.A showroom floor, in your own garage.
First Light Floor Co. · ROC #000000 CR-8 · Licensed, bonded, insured (sample)
Diamond-ground, never acid-etched. A lifetime warranty in writing, hot tires included. Most 2-car floors are $2,790 to $3,490.Full-flake and metallic floors for 3- and 4-car garages, from the stem walls to the cabinets. 3-car floors start at $4,290.
Pick your flake
Throw the flakes yourself.
Pick a blend, then press and hold on the floor. That’s how we do it: by hand, until the base coat can’t hold one more chip. Then the clear coat goes on.
Hold the button, or hold the space bar while it has focus, to throw flakes onto the floor until it’s covered. The clear coat goes on by itself.
Eastmark, Mesa · After the grind · 588 sq ft
Our most-picked blend. Hides dust and tire marks better than anything.
2 · Your garage
3 · Hold the floor until it’s full
Your floor
Gravel Wash on a big 2-car
$3,490or about $161/mo with Wisetack (sample terms)
Want the real chips in your hand? Order free samples.
Eastmark, Mesa · one day
Oil stains at 6:30. This at dinner.
Six years of oil under the truck and a hairline crack from the door to the water heater. Ground to bare, the crack filled flush, Gravel Wash broadcast to full, clear-coated by 2 PM. Parked on it at 7 the next morning.
- Size
- 588 sq ft
- Blend
- Gravel Wash
- Price
- $3,490
Eastmark, Mesa · Big 2-car · 588 sq ft · Gravel Wash · One day · $3,490
Prices by garage size
What a floor costs, before anyone visits.
Real Valley garage sizes, the whole floor, all in. Most price pages call a 400 sq ft garage a 2-car. Most new 2-car garages out here are closer to 600.
Big 2-car · up to 600 sq ft
$3,490full-flake floor, all in
As low as $162/mo with Wisetack (sample terms) · $5.82 a sq ft
Up to 600 sq ft. Most new builds, and the one we do most.
Every floor includes
- Diamond grinding to bare concrete, with a dust shroud and a HEPA vacuum
- Up to 20 linear feet of crack repair
- Stem walls up to 8 inches, coated to match
- A full flake broadcast in any house blend
- A UV-stable polyaspartic clear coat
- Anti-slip grit in the clear coat, if you want it
- The written lifetime warranty, hot tires included
The install day
Why we start at 6:30.
Heat cuts a coating’s working time in half. So from May to October we’re on your slab at first light, and the flakes are down before the garage hits 90. Drag the sun across the day.
6:24 AM · Unloading in Mesa · Door up, car out
6:30 AM
Walkthrough and tape
Nate walks the slab with you, marks every crack and tapes the walls. Your car is out, the door is up.
Nate walks the slab with you, marks every crack and tapes the walls. Your car is out, the door is up.
A walk-behind grinder takes the top off the slab, down to clean, open concrete. The shroud and the HEPA vacuum keep the dust out of your house.
Cracks get a polyurea filler, flush and ground smooth. Stem walls get the same prep as the floor.
A tinted polyurea base goes down, and we throw the flake by hand until the base can’t hold one more chip. Before the garage hits 90.
The loose flake comes up, the floor gets scraped smooth, and we vacuum every corner twice.
A UV-stable polyaspartic clear coat, rolled out by hand, with grit in it if you asked for it.
Socks only tonight. The tape comes off, Nate does the final walk with you, and you get the warranty in writing.
Twenty-four hours after the clear coat, the car goes back in. Shelves and heavy boxes the same day.
Epoxy, polyaspartic or polyurea?
The question on every estimate.
Most kits and low bids are plain epoxy. It’s cheap, it takes a week to cure, and it yellows and lifts in an Arizona garage. Here’s how the four systems compare.
| Measure | Most kits and the lowest bidsEpoxy only | A solid two-day floorEpoxy base, polyaspartic top | The First Light floorPolyurea base, polyaspartic top | The designer lookMetallic epoxy |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Install | 2 to 3 days | 2 days | 1 day | 2 to 3 days |
| Park on it | 5 to 7 days | 48 to 72 hours | 24 hours | 72 hours |
| In the sun | Yellows in sun | Clear coat stays clear | Stays clear | Stays clear under our top |
| Hot tires | Can lift under hot tires | Good | Covered for life | Covered for life |
| Slab movement | Rigid, can chip | Fair | Flexes with the slab | Rigid |
| Price | $3 to $5 a sq ft | $5 to $8 a sq ft | From $5.70 a sq ft | From $11 a sq ft |
| Our take | We don’t sell it in Arizona. | Fine, if you can spare the garage for three days. | What we put down in nine garages out of ten. | Collector garages and showrooms. |
The warranty
Fine print first.
A “lifetime warranty” means nothing until you know what it leaves out. Here’s ours, both columns, before you ever sign.
Covered for as long as you own the home
- Peeling or lifting, anywhere, for as long as you own the home
- Hot tire pickup, the Arizona summer kind
- Yellowing or clouding of the clear coat from the sun
- Flakes coming loose
- Our crack repairs opening back up
Not covered, said up front
- Brown tire stains from some tire brands (a chemistry problem, not a peel; we’ll show you how to lift them)
- Gouges from dropped tools, jack stands or a dragged trailer
- Brake fluid or paint stripper left sitting for hours
- New cracks from the slab moving later (we’ll fill them once, free)
- Water pushing up from under the slab, if you skipped the moisture primer after a high test
What we coat
Garages first. Then everything else with a slab.
Five services, one crew, the same clear coat.
- 01Flake garage floorsGround, flaked and clear-coated in one day.From $1,950
- 02Metallic epoxy floorsA poured, marbled floor for collector garages.From $11 a sq ft
- 03Peeling floor redoWe grind off the failed kit and start over.+$1.25 a sq ft
- 04Patios and pool decksThe same floor outside, with grit for wet feet.From $5.50 a sq ft
- 05Cabinets and storageCabinets, slatwall and overhead racks, same visit.From $495
Reviews
What the neighbors said.
“Crew was in the driveway at 6:25. By 5 that afternoon I was standing on a floor that looks like a showroom. Parked the truck on it the next morning like they said.”
“Our kit floor from the builder was peeling right where the tires sit. Nate showed us why, ground the whole thing off, and the new one hasn’t moved through a full summer.”
“Three bids. Two of them wanted to acid wash. First Light was the only one that brought a grinder and explained why. Price was right in the middle.”
“The metallic floor under my cars is the first thing anyone mentions now. Two and a half days, zero dust in the house, and they moved the lift posts back exactly.”
“Lena texted me the night before with a 6:30 to 7 window and they were there at 6:40. That alone put them ahead of everyone else I talked to.”
“Our covered patio used to be too hot to stand on barefoot. The lighter flake and the grit made it usable again. Grandkids run on it all day.”
“I used the flake picker on the site, sent it with the quote, and that’s exactly what showed up on the floor. No surprises on the invoice either.”
“Did the floor and the cabinets and racks the next week. Nothing touches the ground anymore and my wife can finally park in there.”
The owner
I’m on every job.
“I finished slabs for builders for twelve years, and I watched coatings fail on half of them. Always the same reason: somebody skipped the grind to save a morning. I started First Light so there’d be one crew in the Valley that never does. I walk every floor before we leave, and my cell is the number on this site.”
Nate Ocampo · founder, since 2018
Lena texts you back, usually inside the hour. She builds the schedule around the heat and calls the night before with your arrival window.
Where we work
Is your street on our list?
From the shop near Falcon Field we cover the East Valley and Scottsdale. Type your ZIP and you’ll know before you fill out anything.
Questions
What people ask before they book.
The ones Lena answers every day. The rest are on the FAQ page.
How much is a garage floor?
Will it hold up to an Arizona summer?
How long until I can park on it?
Why do you grind instead of acid etching?
Is it slippery when wet?
Do I have to empty the whole garage?
My home sits on a post-tension slab. Is that a problem?
Can I finance it?
Get a floor quote
Get your floor price.
Two quick steps. Send a few photos and you’ll have a price range by text within the hour, 6 AM to 8 PM. Rather see the chips in person? Nate comes by, free.