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A basic grind-and-seal polished concrete finish costs $3 to $6 per square foot in Toronto, rising to $6 to $10 for a medium polish and $8 to $15 for high gloss, according to Armour Guard. Epoxy floor systems run $5 to $12 per square foot by type, and Monarch prices a two-car garage at $2,660 to $5,000 in standard epoxy or $3,800 to $6,800 in polyaspartic, plus HST.
Every figure below is quoted from the page it names. These 13 rows rest on 4 independent Canadian sources, each linked on the row it carries. Where sources disagree, each row keeps one publisher's own published figure rather than a range assembled across several, so you can check any number against the sentence it came from.
| Item | Typical range | Unit | Source |
|---|---|---|---|
| Polished concrete – basic grind & seal (cream/matte finish), existing slabPolishing an existing slab, not a new pour. Armour Guard puts the whole GTA range for polishing existing concrete at $3-$12 per square foot, and a new pour plus polish at $10-$25+. | $3–$6 | per sq ft (CAD) | Armour Guard |
| Polished concrete – mid-sheen satin finish (up to 800 grit)Armour Guard's middle tier between a basic grind and seal ($3-$6) and a high-gloss finish ($8-$15). Existing slab only. | $6–$10 | per sq ft (CAD) | Armour Guard |
| Polished concrete – high-gloss finish (1,500–3,000+ grit)Armour Guard's top polishing tier on an existing slab. Decorative work such as staining or scoring is priced on top. | $8–$15 | per sq ft (CAD) | Armour Guard |
| Polished concrete – typical residential installed rate, TorontoToronto Epoxy says each project is unique and that the cost per square foot can fall as the area rises. This is a residential installed rate, narrower than Armour Guard's $3-$12 span because it covers one company's standard job. | $5.50–$7.00 | per sq ft (CAD) | Toronto Epoxy Pros |
| New concrete pour + polish (slab supplied and finished)Open-ended at the top: Armour Guard writes $10-$25+ where a new concrete pour is required, against $3-$12 for polishing a slab that already exists. | $10–$25+ | per sq ft (CAD) | Armour Guard |
| Epoxy garage floor – solid colour system, installedMonarch's summary box figure. Its own body text puts a standard solid epoxy at $4-$6 per sq ft for light-use residential garages, so treat $5-$8 as the installed quote and confirm the system spec. | $5–$8 | per sq ft (CAD) | Monarch Epoxy Coatings |
| Epoxy garage floor – full-flake/chip system, installedMonarch's summary box figure; its body text gives $5-$10 for the same flake or chip system. Flake adds slip resistance over a solid colour. | $6–$10 | per sq ft (CAD) | Monarch Epoxy Coatings |
| Metallic epoxy floor, installedDecorative metallic system. Monarch prices it above both solid epoxy and flake, and below commercial-grade systems at $10-$15. | $8–$12 | per sq ft (CAD) | Monarch Epoxy Coatings |
| Polyaspartic one-day flake system, installedMonarch says polyaspartic generally falls in this range and rates it highly for the Toronto climate. A polyurea and polyaspartic hybrid runs $9-$14 and can last over 20 years. | $7–$12 | per sq ft (CAD) | Monarch Epoxy Coatings |
| 1-car garage epoxy (200–250 sq ft), standard to premium systemMonarch's size table for Toronto homes: $1,400-$2,500 in standard epoxy and $2,000-$3,000 in polyaspartic or premium, over 200 to 250 sq ft. Smaller garages sit at the higher end of the per-foot range. | $1,400–$3,000 | total project (CAD) | Monarch Epoxy Coatings |
| 2-car garage epoxy (380–500 sq ft), full-flake standard to polyaspartic premiumMonarch's size table: $2,660-$5,000 in standard epoxy and $3,800-$6,800 in polyaspartic or premium, over 380 to 500 sq ft. A 3-car garage runs $4,200-$9,000+. | $2,660–$6,800 | total project (CAD) | Monarch Epoxy Coatings |
| Basement epoxy floor, installed (Ontario)Ontario, not Toronto specifically. Canadian Concrete Surfaces notes basement moisture requires specialised primer and moisture-mitigation systems that push the cost up. | $3–$7 | per sq ft (CAD) | Canadian Concrete Surfaces |
| Surface prep / diamond grinding add-on, residential jobsCharged on top of the coating rate and driven by slab condition: Monarch says clean smooth slabs need fewer materials and less labour, while oil stains and cracks raise it. Levelling an uneven floor is a further +$3-$6 and removing an old coating $3-$8. | $1–$3 | per sq ft (CAD) | Monarch Epoxy Coatings |
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12 of these 13 rows are drawn. The other 1 is priced in a unit no other row on this page shares, or carry an open-ended figure such as a “starting at” price with no published ceiling. Neither can be placed on a shared axis honestly, so they stay in the table above with their sources rather than being drawn to a number nobody printed.
Two quotes on the same job often differ because they are quoting different work, not different rates. This is how the trade splits it up, drawn from the rows and factors already on this page. It carries no prices on purpose: those belong beside the source that published them.
Gloss is a grit count, and the grit count is the price
Polished concrete is the same slab taken through more passes of progressively finer diamond tooling. Each level below is more machine time on the floor you already own.
Prep and repair first
Before any polishing, the slab is ground flat and its cracks are dealt with. A damaged or oil-saturated floor needs more of this than a sound one, and it is quoted separately.
Grind and seal, matte
The fewest passes. The surface is cut back and sealed rather than polished to a shine. This is the entry point on every published tier list on this page.
Satin, mid-sheen
More passes at a finer grit. A soft sheen rather than a reflection.
High gloss
The most passes, at the finest tooling. The shine is mechanical, from how fine the last cut was, not from a coating laid on top.
A rate per square foot is hard to picture. These are photographs published by ConcreteFinder companies working in this category across the Greater Toronto Area, at the size they deserve rather than as thumbnails. Each one links to that company's record, with its rating, its service area and its phone number.
DuraCoatz
Davisville
Valhalla Contracting
Mimico
Prestige Epoxy & Coatings Ltd.
Willowdale
Toronto Concrete Repair
The Kingsway
Epoxyguys
Lawrence Park
DGI LTD.(Dream Garage International)
Willowdale
Spec, access and job size move polished concrete pricing more than anything else in Toronto. Each factor below is tied to a figure in the table above, so you can read a quote and see where the money goes.
Yes, Ontario changes the math: 13% HST sits on top of every quote, City permits apply to anything touching the right-of-way, and the freeze-thaw season closes the practical pour window. Each point below is what applies locally.
The biggest savings come from job timing, bundling small pours into one mobilization, and doing demolition yourself. Each lever below is tied to a real number in the table above, not to cutting the parts that matter.
Every price on this page was re-opened at its source and matched to the sentence that carries it. Where sources disagree, ConcreteFinder keeps each row on one publisher's own figure and writes the disagreement down here rather than blending them into a range nobody published.
ConcreteFinder tracks 127 polished concrete contractors across the Greater Toronto Area, rated 4.85★ on average. The three below rank highest on our review-weighted score, based on ConcreteFinder's analysis of 127 GTA businesses, July 2026.
186/100 ConcreteFinder Score
282 reviews · 4.9
Willowdale
3 of 4 details on file · Listed for foundation contractor work around Willowdale, 282 Google reviews average 4.9★, also listed under concrete repair & leveling and polished concrete & epoxy floors.
276/100 ConcreteFinder Score
59 reviews · 5.0
Mimico
2 of 4 details on file · A concrete contractor working Mimico, 59 Google reviews average 5.0★, also listed under concrete repair & leveling and polished concrete & epoxy floors.
374/100 ConcreteFinder Score
25 reviews · 5.0
Willowdale
3 of 4 details on file · Pours in Willowdale as a polished concrete contractor, 25 Google reviews average 5.0★, posted working hours.
One thing the address genuinely changes is access, which every quote on this page is sensitive to: a downtown lot a truck cannot chute into means a pump or a wheelbarrow crew, and a rear-laneway job is formed differently from an open suburban frontage. The other is how many companies will bid at all. These are the Greater Toronto Area areas where ConcreteFinder tracks the most polished concrete contractors, with the count on each.
Put your own dimensions through the numbers above. Each calculator shows the working line by line, so you can hold a contractor's quote against it.
Volume for a slab, footing, column or set of steps, in cubic feet, cubic yards and cubic metres at once, with bag counts and a delivered price.
When you can walk on it, drive on it and seal it, with the CSA A23.1 cold-weather rules an Ontario pour runs under.
A quote is hard to compare when half of it is trade vocabulary. These are the terms used in the table above, defined in the words a contractor would use.
Most polished concrete quotes arrive alongside another one. These are the three ConcreteFinder guides closest to this job, each priced from its own named sources.
A 20x20 garage slab runs $5,000 to $8,000 installed; shed pads are $15 to $25 per square foot.
Basic stamped concrete runs $18 to $30 per square foot, up to $41 to $50 for premium multi-pattern work.
A 20x20 garage slab runs $5,000 to $8,000 installed; 25 MPa ready-mix is $245 per cubic metre at the plant.
Most GTA installers land between $3,000 and $5,000 for a 400 sq ft two-car garage with a professional full-flake system; premium polyaspartic jobs run $3,800-$6,800 (Monarch Epoxy, Surface Pro Epoxy, 2026 guides). Budget one-coat installs can come in under $2,700 but usually skip proper diamond grinding. Add 13% HST.
A basic grind-and-seal or cream polish with a matte finish is the entry point at $3-$6 per sq ft in Toronto (Armour Guard). It grinds only the surface paste and skips the high-grit polishing passes, which suits basements well. Stepping up to an 800-grit satin finish raises the price to $6-$10 per sq ft.
Often, yes - on an existing slab in decent shape, basic polishing starts at $3-$6 per sq ft versus $5-$8 for solid-colour epoxy. But a 3,000-grit high-gloss polish at $8-$15 costs more than a flake epoxy system at $6-$10. In garages, epoxy usually wins anyway because road salt and oil stain bare polished concrete.
On residential jobs, prep grinding adds $1 to $3 per square foot to a coating quote, and Monarch says the figure depends on slab condition: clean smooth slabs need fewer materials and less labour, while oil stains and cracks raise it. Levelling an uneven floor is a further $3 to $6 per square foot and removing an old coating $3 to $8. Larger floors earn real economies of scale, because mobilization is a fixed cost spread over more area.
No - coatings and polishing count as interior finishes, so Toronto requires no building permit. Permits and engineered drawings only apply if the structural slab is poured or replaced, as in basement underpinning. Condo owners face a different gate: many Toronto boards require approval and acoustic underlay, which adds $1-$3 per sq ft (Armour Guard).
Metallic epoxy runs $8-$12 per sq ft installed in the GTA, roughly $2-$4 per sq ft over a standard flake system (Monarch Epoxy). Epoxy Dudes prices a metallic two-car garage at $4,000-plus versus $3,000-$4,000 for flake. The premium pays for hand-worked pigment effects, so small showpiece floors carry the highest per-foot rates.
Yes, if the slab can be held above roughly 10°C while curing - heated interiors are no problem, and cold-cure polyaspartic extends the garage season. Winter slabs carry more moisture from snowmelt and salt, which can force a moisture-vapour barrier at $2.00-$4.50 per sq ft (Surface Pro Epoxy). Some installers discount interior work in January-March.
For a 700 sq ft Toronto basement, budget $2,100 to $4,200 for a matte grind-and-seal at $3 to $6 per square foot (Armour Guard), or $5,600 to $10,500 for a full high-gloss polish at $8 to $15. Damaged slabs add $1 to $5 per square foot in repairs, and epoxy is the cheaper alternative at $3 to $7 per square foot (Canadian Concrete Surfaces).
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