Epoxy flooring cost in Kenya · Nairobi rates
From KSh 4,000
a square metre.
A resin floor in Nairobi starts at KSh 4,000 per square metre, supply and lay, VAT exclusive. That is the entry rate for a solid-colour epoxy on a sound slab, and it covers the diamond grind, the moisture-barrier primer, the 100 % solids base coat and the polyaspartic topcoat. Thicker systems and damaged slabs cost more.
One rate, published, with everything that moves it written down underneath. The final figure is settled after somebody has read your slab, because the slab is the thing nobody can price from a photograph. But you should not have to ring us to find out the order of magnitude.
What the rate covers
Survey & moisture test
Three humidity probes at 40 % of the slab depth, left in for 72 hours. Free, and the reading is yours either way.
Diamond grinding
The slab opened to a mechanical key, shrouded to a vacuum at the point of cut. Resin does not stick to concrete; it sticks into it.
Crack chasing & repair
Static cracks opened out, filled and levelled where the slab is sound enough for it.
Moisture-barrier primer
Two hundred microns, and the only layer holding the other two on.
100 % solids base coat
The layer thick enough to be called a floor, poured in one continuous day.
Polyaspartic topcoat
The quarter millimetre that everything touching the floor actually touches.
Labour, plant and making good
Our own crew and our own machines. Nothing hired in, and the room left clean.
What is not in it
- VAT, which is added at the prevailing rate.
- Structural reconstruction of a failed slab, quoted as its own line.
- Anything you have asked us to work around out of hours, which is a programme cost rather than a floor cost.
What moves it up
The system
A solid-colour epoxy is about 2 mm. Urethane cement is trowelled at roughly four times that, and quartz and mortar screeds carry more material again. Thickness is bought by the kilogram, so the system you need is the single biggest line on the quote.
The slab
Spalling, ponding hollows, broken joint arrises, live cracks, the trench left by a removed machine base, or no damp-proof membrane under the concrete. Each is rebuilt before anything new goes on, and each is quoted as its own line rather than folded into the rate.
The room
Coved edges at the walls, falls to a drain, anti-slip grit broadcast into the topcoat, and every metre the rake cannot reach that has to be cut in by hand. An open bay is cheaper per square metre than the same area cut into small rooms.
The size
A 40 m² garage and a 400 m² warehouse take the same grinder, the same extraction and the same mixer off the same truck. The small floor carries more of that per square metre, which is why the rate falls as the area rises.
Straight to your number
- Book a free site visit. Three probes in the slab, 72 hours, and the reading is yours either way.
- Send the details. Six questions about the slab and the space, with the scope building beside you as you answer.
Four things, and they are the same four on every quote we write.
Where each system sits
No shilling figure against each one. We have never quoted a system without first reading the slab it is going on, and a web page is a poor place to start. What is true, and useful, is the banding, and it follows the build thickness, which is what resin is bought by.
| Band | Build | Systems | Why |
|---|---|---|---|
| At the entry rate | ≈2 mm | Solid-colour epoxy, Flake floors | The same build: ground slab, primer, one 100 % solids base coat, one polyaspartic topcoat. Flake adds chips broadcast into the wet base and a slightly heavier topcoat to bury them, which is material rather than another layer. |
| Above it | 2–3 mm | Metallic & decorative pours, Quartz broadcast | A metallic is the same thickness worked by hand: pigment dispersed, poured, pulled, cut and blown open inside a twenty-minute window, which is labour rather than material. Quartz is the opposite: the grip goes all the way through, so the floor carries more aggregate and builds to about 3 mm. |
| Well above it | 4–9 mm | Heavy industrial mortar, Urethane cement | A mortar bed at 4–6 mm laid in bays, or urethane cement trowelled at 6–9 mm for rooms washed down at 120 °C. Three to four times the material of an entry-rate floor, and a different trade to lay it. |
| Priced case by case | Varies | Repairs & recoats | There is no rate for this, because the work is whatever the old floor left behind. A recoat over a sound base is the cheapest thing on this page; grinding out a failed DIY coating and rebuilding the slab underneath it is not. |
Which band your room falls in is most of your quote. The slab is the rest.
Why some quotes come in lower
Quotes in Kenya for what is sold as epoxy flooring run from a few hundred shillings a square metre to several thousand. Most of that gap is in what is actually laid, and it usually comes down to one of three things. Each one can be checked on the quote itself.
| On a lower quote | What it does to the floor | In the entry rate |
|---|---|---|
| Solvent-thinned epoxy | Sold at 50 to 70 per cent solids, so a third to a half of what you pay for leaves the floor as vapour. The film shrinks as it goes, and it takes the gloss and a good part of the thickness with it. | 100% solids epoxy |
| Water-based garage kits | The tin that covers a double garage for the price of a tank of fuel. It is roughly 40 per cent solids and lays down thinner than a sheet of paper, which is why it peels off in strips with the first hot tyre. | 100% solids epoxy |
| Acid etching | An hour with a watering can instead of a day behind a grinder. It roughens the cement paste and leaves the profile far shallower than resin needs, plus a residue that has to be neutralised and never fully is. | Diamond grinding |
Ask any quote which of these it uses. A rate that does not name the preparation, the solids content and the topcoat is not a rate for the same floor.
Two ways to turn this into your number. Book a free site visit