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Polyaspartic is not epoxy plus a round number. The kit is more expensive per square foot. Coat hours usually drop because a 1-day flake system is fewer coats and a faster recoat. The grind does not change. If you diamond-profile a 400 sq ft two-car, those hours are still on the ticket.
Homeowners pay for same-day return-to-service and hot-tire resistance. Shops lose money when they price that premium as “epoxy plus $2/sq ft” and forget flake bags, moisture barrier, or a 40-mile drive. Travel is loaded wage times hours on the road, plus vehicle miles — the same way an epoxy bid should have counted it.
Open the calculator, switch the system to 1-day polyaspartic flake, and compare it to full-broadcast epoxy on the same slab. The kit line goes up; the coat-hour line goes down; walk-away is the number to hold when someone asks you to “just do it for epoxy money.”
Polyaspartic kits cost more per square foot than epoxy, but coat hours drop because a 1-day system usually uses fewer coats and a faster recoat. The grind does not get cheaper. Price kit, flake, prep, travel, and margin separately rather than adding a flat premium to an epoxy number.
No. Same-day return-to-service is the product the homeowner is buying. The shop still has to grind, still has to broadcast flake, and still has to drive there. Skipping any of those and calling it polyaspartic is how a premium ticket still loses money.