Garage and shop floors
Solid Color Epoxy Floors
One even, high-gloss colour from wall to wall, the cleanest look for a garage or shop.
Chapter 01
One color leaves nothing to hide behind
A solid color floor is the plainest thing Columbia River Coatings installs, and that is exactly why it is the least forgiving. Metallic pigment swirls and flake chips break up the eye. A single flat color does not. Roller marks, a missed corner, a patch that was never ground flush: all of it shows in the gloss, especially when the garage door is up and the afternoon light rakes across the slab.
Craig McConathy has seen what a rushed solid color job looks like, and it is rarely the coating that failed. It is the slab under it. A hairline crack that was only painted over opens back up. A pit left unfilled reads as a dark dot in a pale floor. Because one color carries the whole room, the work that decides the result happens before any color goes down.
High-gloss solid grey epoxy floor in an empty garage reflecting the door windows
Repair first, then even coats from wall to wall
Every solid color job in Pasco and across the Columbia Basin starts with the concrete as found. Craig repairs the cracks and pits, cleans the slab, and tapes the wall base so the edges come out as a clean line instead of a wavering one. The blue tape lines in his own garage photos are not decoration, they are how a straight edge gets made.
From there the color goes down in even coats, worked edge to edge so there are no lap lines and no thin stripes where the roller ran dry. The finish is high gloss. In the grey garage floors Craig has finished, the door windows and the ceiling light are mirrored right back off the surface, which is the sign the coats laid flat.
It is one man on the job from the first consultation to the final coat. If you want to talk through your slab, call (509) 492-8403 or send a photo, and Craig will say plainly whether it is ready for color or needs repair work first.
Chapter 03
Pick the color for how the space gets used
Solid color is the cleanest, brightest look for a garage or shop. Spills wipe up, and a push broom handles the grit tracked in off the road. The choice that matters most is how light or dark to go. Lighter greys hide dust and the pale film left by dried water far better than black does, while a deep color looks sharp on day one and asks for more wiping to stay that way.
If you are weighing solid color against flake or metallic, the honest trade is texture and character. Flake adds grip and hides wear, and metallic adds depth and movement. Solid color gives you the calm, even surface that makes a garage look finished. Craig will talk it through at a consultation, and every job is priced for the slab in front of him, not from a list.
Solid color floors are laid by Craig McConathy alone, from repair to final coat. Licensed, bonded and insured Washington contractor, licence COLUMRC781K6.
Coat schedule
Two grey garages, as the camera caught them
These are Craig's own photos, not stock. Look at the walls: the tape line is still on, and the floor is already throwing the light back.
Thinking about a metallic look instead? See metallic epoxy floors, or read about Craig and then send a message about your own slab.
Grey high-gloss floor, blue tape still along the wall base.
Light grey floor running wall to wall across an open garage.