Garage floor coating franchise costs and real Item 19 medians from the 2026 FDDs of Garage Living, GarageExperts, Granite Garage Floors and Hello Garage.
Quick answer A garage floor coating franchise runs $95,450 to $246,400 for a van-based model and $246,450 to $323,900 for Garage Living's showroom model. Disclosed 2025 medians range from $488,974 at Granite Garage Floors to $1,470,778 at Garage Living, on samples that cover very different slices of each system.
Garage Living’s 2026 FDD reports a median of $1,470,778 in 2025 gross sales. Surface Specialists, in the same batch of filings, reports $132,416. That is an 11x gap between two businesses a buyer can find in the same search results, and it is not a gap in operator quality.
That $1,470,778 comes from 30 franchise business operations covering 37 of Garage Living’s 41 US territories. Four operations the franchisor labels non-conforming are excluded, and so is every Canadian franchisee. Surface Specialists gets to $132,416 from all 44 franchisees that ran the full year, including the one that billed $3,725. Its only exclusion is three outlets that closed partway through 2025. The worst surviving result in the system is printed in the document.
Completeness of disclosure and size of the disclosed number run in opposite directions across this whole category, which makes ranking by median actively misleading. Sort by what the sample covers instead.
Garage Living designs, supplies and installs cabinetry, slatwall, overhead racks, car lifts, garage doors and floor coatings, and it does that from a showroom. Item 7 budgets $30,000 to $35,000 in leasehold improvements, three months of rent at $9,000 to $15,000, and $30,000 to $50,000 in fixtures and displays. The primary-market total runs $246,450 to $323,900. A secondary-market franchise starts at $122,250 and swaps the percentage royalty for a $2,000 monthly flat fee.
GarageExperts, Granite Garage Floors and MACH ONE sell a coated floor out of a wrapped truck. No showroom, no lease of consequence, a third to half the capital, and a cost structure much closer to the outdoor living brands than to a retail franchise. Surface Specialists is a different trade again: bathtub, tile and countertop refinishing for homes, hotels and multifamily buildings, at $43,200 to $56,000. It surfaces in coating searches and it belongs in the price comparison, but nobody is coating a garage floor with it.
| Brand | Model | Item 7 total | Fee | Royalty + brand fund | 2025 median | Item 19 sample |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Garage Living | Showroom, full renovation | $246,450 to $323,900 | $60,000 | 6.5% + 2% + 3-6% local | $1,470,778 | 30 operations, 37 of 41 US territories |
| GarageExperts | Van, coating + storage | $136,300 to $246,400 | $54,900 | 6% + 1.5% + 6% local | $624,466 | 46 of 58 single-territory owners |
| Granite Garage Floors | Van, coating only | $149,500 to $222,200 | $50,000 | 6.5% + 2% | $488,974 | 24 of 26 franchises |
| Hello Garage | Van, coating + organization | $165,340 to $205,250 | $59,500 | 5% + 2% | not stated | 25 businesses incl. 2 corporate |
| Surface Specialists | Van, bath and kitchen refinishing | $43,200 to $56,000 | $36,000 | 5% + 1% | $132,416 | all 44 franchisees |
Capital is bunched between $136,000 and $250,000 for four of these. Revenue is not bunched at all. Most of that spread is the model, and the rest is who got counted.
Granite’s Item 19 lists all 24 reporting franchises individually, ranked, with the territory count next to each. The top franchise did $3,319,271 across five territories. Number 24 did $23,755. Average gross sales came in at $729,404 and only 10 of the 24 reached it, which is exactly why the $488,974 median is the number to use.
The tenure breakdown is the part worth photographing. Franchises open more than eight years post a median of $1,302,908. Open five to eight years, $401,787. Open one to five years, $374,611. Almost no movement between the two younger cohorts, then a jump. Look at the territory counts in the oldest group and the reason shows up: its four biggest earners hold 5, 5, 7 and 5 territories. The two operators in that same cohort running a single territory did $1,069,674 and $983,219.
Granite also runs a Franchise Option Program that refunds the $50,000 initial fee in exchange for a royalty of 10.5% instead of 6.5% for the full ten-year term. On $500,000 of annual sales that trade costs $20,000 a year to save $50,000 once. Do that arithmetic before the discovery day, not after. Similar territory-count math applies across the category, and our guide to franchise territory analysis walks through the household-density inputs.
The GarageExperts sample is defined by owner type, not by tenure. It covers 46 of the 58 owners who ran a single territory for all of 2025, which leaves out every multi-territory owner in a 110-unit system. Median gross sales were $624,466, the high was $1,538,069, the low $160,409, and average gross profit after labor and cost of goods sold was $330,195.
That last figure is the most useful line item any brand in this group discloses, because it is the only published look at margin before overhead. Set it against the cost side: royalty 6%, national advertising 1.5%, and a local advertising minimum of $50,000 in the first year, dropping afterward to no less than 6% of gross sales per quarter. A buyer budgeting $136,300 to $246,400 for the franchise needs that $50,000 sitting somewhere separate. The Item 15 language adds one more staffing cost most candidates miss: the operations manual treats hiring a full-time salesperson at six to nine months as a best practice.
Comparing this against adjacent trades is worth an hour. Our roundup of van-based models covers businesses with nearly identical capital profiles, and garage doors are a separate trade that buyers routinely confuse with this one. Every disclosing brand in the category is filterable on our home services list.
Hello Garage discloses something the others do not: average dollars per install, broken out by year in business. It opens at $4,352, then goes $4,996, $5,028, $5,181 and $4,795. The ticket barely moves across five years. Job count is what moves, with the median climbing from 74 installs to 132, 141, 168 and 201.
Granite’s prior-year FDD backs the same ticket from a different system. Its 20 reporting franchises turned 3,155 jobs into $14,708,104 of revenue in 2024, or about $4,660 per job. Two unrelated franchisors, two independent samples, one price per garage.
Run the ceiling from there. One crew doing one garage a day, five days a week, 48 weeks a year, produces roughly 240 jobs and something near $1.1 million. That is not a coincidence. It is where GarageExperts’ best single-territory owner landed, at $1,538,069, where Granite’s two mature single-territory franchises landed, at $983,219 and $1,069,674, and where Hello Garage’s fifth-year median stalls, at $977,263. Nobody in this category is capped by demand for coated garage floors. They are capped by how many crews they can hire, train and keep. The one Granite franchise above $2 million holds five territories.
A 24-franchise sample sounds thin until you notice Granite only has 26 franchises. Coverage is 92%. Compare that to Hello Garage, which reports on 25 outlets while excluding eight franchised businesses operating in 30 territories, none of which were open less than 12 months, and which folds two corporate-owned locations into the same table. The corporate pair averaged $756,894 in year one against a blended year-one average of $372,569. Sample size is not the test. Coverage and composition are.
Three more checks before a deposit. First, confirm what a unit is: Garage Living’s median describes a franchise business operation, and 30 of them run 37 territories, so the per-territory figure is lower than the headline. Second, read Item 20 for direction of travel. Garage Living’s franchised outlets went 50 to 49 to 47 over 2024 and 2025. Granite added 30 territories in 2023, 11 in 2024 and 2 in 2025. Surface Specialists went 48 to 47 to 44. GarageExperts lost two outlets in 2023, held flat in 2024, then added six in 2025. Third, notice who says nothing at all. MACH ONE, the veterans-only epoxy and concrete polishing brand from G-FORCE Franchise Group, grew from 3 franchised outlets to 21 in three years and publishes no financial performance representation, which leaves validation calls as your only source.
Price two scenarios before you talk to a development rep: one crew at roughly 240 jobs, and two crews at 480, both at a $4,700 ticket, with royalty and the local advertising minimum subtracted. Our franchise investment calculator handles the fee stack, and the under-$100K home services list covers what is available if that math says the capital is too heavy. The brand that survives both scenarios is the one worth a discovery day.
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Between $95,450 and $246,400 for the van-based brands. MACH ONE (G-FORCE Franchise Group) discloses $95,450 to $235,500, GarageExperts $136,300 to $246,400 for a standard territory, Granite Garage Floors $149,500 to $222,200, and Hello Garage $165,340 to $205,250. Garage Living sits well above that at $246,450 to $323,900 for a primary market, because the model includes a retail showroom.
The FDDs disclose revenue, not profit, with one useful exception. GarageExperts reports average gross profit after labor and cost of goods sold of $330,195 against average gross sales of $686,909 for its 2025 single-territory owners, a gross margin around 48%. Garage Living discloses 41.29% cost of goods sold and 24.23% labor, leaving a 34.48% gross margin before rent, insurance, vehicles, royalties and marketing. Neither figure is net income.
No brand in this group requires it, but every one of them requires you to run the business yourself. Garage Living asks for full time and best efforts. Granite Garage Floors requires an Operating Principal supervising at all times. Surface Specialists requires you to personally manage and operate unless the franchisor approves a designated manager. GarageExperts lets you install a general manager who is not an owner, which is the loosest requirement of the four.
They compete for different buyers. Garage Living sells whole-garage renovation from a showroom: cabinetry, car lifts, garage doors and coatings, at $246,450 to $323,900 and a $60,000 fee, with a 2025 median of $1,470,778. GarageExperts sells coating and storage from a van at $136,300 to $246,400 and a $54,900 fee, with a median of $624,466 across 46 single-territory owners. Garage Living carries a lease and higher fixed cost. GarageExperts carries a $50,000 first-year advertising minimum.
Slower than the marketing suggests, and the disclosure shows it. Hello Garage's Item 19 puts median installation revenue at $316,858 in year one, $721,553 in year two, then $758,999 and $762,451 in years three and four. Granite Garage Floors franchises open one to five years post a median of $374,611. The step change happens when an owner adds territory and crews, not when a single territory matures.
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