Guides
Before you spend four figures on a floor
This trade has a wide quality range and the failures are invisible for a year. These guides are written so you can tell a real specification from a sales script — including the cases where the honest answer is that your floor is not ready.
- Floor coating cost in Collingwood Real 2026 prices for garage floor coatings in Collingwood, why quotes on one floor differ by a factor of three, and what actually drives the number. What it costs Updated Aug 2026
- Epoxy vs polyaspartic What the manufacturer data sheets actually say about cold slabs, why the epoxy-versus-polyaspartic framing misleads here, and when each one is right. Deciding Updated Aug 2026
- Can my slab be coated? How slab moisture destroys a coating a year after it looks perfect, which South Georgian Bay slabs are at risk, and the tests that answer it. Something is wrong Updated Aug 2026
- Reading a coatings quote The eight lines that tell you whether a floor coating quote is a real specification or a price with a colour attached, and what to ask. Deciding Updated Aug 2026
Talk to a Collingwood floor coating contractor
Tell us the size of the bay, roughly when the slab was poured, and whether the building is heated. That is usually enough for a realistic range over the phone — and enough for us to say if you are in the small group of floors where the honest answer is to fix the water before spending anything on a coating.