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This calculator vs. CoatingOS
Two different shapes: CoatingOS is a subscription business-management app for running a coating company's estimates, scheduling, invoicing, and customer records. This page is a free, private worksheet for one question — what should this one slab cost, given its grind hours, flake, and kit, before you quote it.
What each tool is for
CoatingOS is an all-in-one business management app built specifically for floor coating contractors — epoxy, polyurea, polyaspartic, and concrete coating professionals. It lets a contractor create and send estimates, convert an accepted estimate into a work order, generate invoices and track payments, schedule jobs, store customer records, send two-way SMS to customers, document jobs with photos, and take deposits through a Square integration. It is sold as an ongoing subscription account with a free trial offered on its own site. CoatingOS's own pricing page is not reachable from this session to confirm today's exact plan names or dollar figures, so no price for it is invented here: only its well-documented identity and category — coating-industry business-management software, sold as a subscription account — are stated, and no dollar amount for CoatingOS appears on this page.
This calculator does none of what CoatingOS does. It does not manage customer records, schedule crews, or send invoices, and it stores no customer or job record on a server. It takes one slab's square footage, grind hours, flake load and coverage, coat count, a choice between full-broadcast epoxy and 1-day polyaspartic kits, waste, crack repair, moisture-barrier treatment, loaded wage, payroll burden, overhead, target margin, and travel, and turns that into the per-job price, the price per square foot, and the walk-away price below which a cut-rate special loses money — plus, if you already have a price on the table, a check of whether it clears that walk-away floor, and a single printable customer proposal for that one job. It runs free in any browser, keeps no account, and uploads nothing you type.
| Question | Where to answer it |
|---|---|
| I run a coating company and need estimates, scheduling, invoicing, and customer records in one system across every crew and every job. | CoatingOS, or a comparable coating-industry platform — running a whole company is not something this calculator does. |
| What should I charge for this one slab, given its grind hours, flake load, and coat count, before I quote it? | This calculator — free, instant, private, no account. |
| How much does switching from full-broadcast epoxy to 1-day polyaspartic actually change the bid? | This calculator's kit-cost and coat-count comparison, not a flat premium. |
| Is the $3–$5/sq ft special I'm about to match still above my walk-away cost for this slab? | This calculator's compare-to-proposed-price check. |
| I need one shared account so my whole crew is scheduling, invoicing, and texting customers the same way. | CoatingOS, or a comparable coating-industry platform. |
| How does the math behind a garage-floor coating bid actually work? | This calculator's own epoxy pricing walkthrough and polyaspartic pricing walkthrough. |
| Do I need to create an account or sign up to use the tool? | This calculator: no. CoatingOS is used through a subscription account. |
Most garage-floor coating contractors get different value from each: CoatingOS (or a comparable coating-industry platform) for running estimates, scheduling, invoicing, and customer records across a whole company as an ongoing subscription, and a private calculator like this one for an instant, no-login gut-check on what one slab should cost from its grind hours and kit before a business system is involved. This page's own figures are a pricing model, not a scheduled job, an invoice, or a signed proposal.
This tool needs no account and no sign-in: it is a static page, the arithmetic runs in your browser, and once it has loaded it keeps working with the connection off.
Common questions
Should I use this calculator or CoatingOS?
They do different jobs, and a garage-floor coating business of any size may end up using both. CoatingOS is an all-in-one business management app built specifically for floor coating contractors — epoxy, polyurea, polyaspartic, and concrete coating professionals. It lets a contractor create and send estimates, convert an accepted estimate into a work order, generate invoices and track payments, schedule jobs, store customer records, send two-way SMS to customers, document jobs with photos, and take deposits through a Square integration, and it is sold as an ongoing subscription with a free trial. This calculator does one narrower thing: starting from slab square footage, grind hours, flake load and coverage, coat count, epoxy vs. 1-day polyaspartic kit costs, waste, crack repair, moisture-barrier treatment, loaded wage, overhead, and travel, it turns that into the per-job price, the price per square foot, and the walk-away price below which a cut-rate special loses money, before any of it touches a business-management system. It runs free in any browser, keeps no account, and uploads nothing you type. A coating company already running estimates, scheduling, invoicing, and customer records across a whole crew is better served by CoatingOS or a comparable coating-industry platform; a contractor who wants an instant, private gut-check on what one slab should cost from its grind hours and kit before opening a business system is in the right place here.
Is this page affiliated with CoatingOS?
No. This site is not affiliated with, endorsed by, or sponsored by CoatingOS. CoatingOS is a trademark of its owner, named here only to describe what this calculator is and is not.
Open the Epoxy Garage Floor Bid Calculator to price your own slab.