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A planning call with someone who runs a coating company: your market, budget, pricing and training plan.
How the call works
Admissions
Enroll: how to start
There's no application and no experience requirement. Join the founding list for The Epoxy Playbook, our recorded installation training, and the hands-on class waitlist for your state. Here's who can enroll, what each program needs from you, and what to bring to class.
Who can enroll
Anyone building a coating business
Epoxy Business School is for people who want to install coatings properly and run a business that pays. You can enroll if you are:
- Starting from zero, with no coating or contracting experience. Your learning path.
- An installer going out on your own after working for someone else. Your learning path.
- A contractor adding coatings to painting, concrete or handyman work. Your learning path.
- In your first year of running a coating business. Your learning path.
Not sure it's for you? The startup cost calculator and the guide to starting an epoxy flooring business are free and make a good first test.
Requirements at a glance
- Experience
- None. The recordings start from the bare slab, and the class starts with reading it.
- Age
- Owner: minimum age for hands-on classes, and whether under-18s can attend with a parent or guardian Our forms and text messages are for adults 18 and over (privacy policy).
- A US mobile number
- We follow up by text. Email is optional.
- For a hands-on class
- The Epoxy Playbook first: complete the installation recordings before your two days on the slab.
- Physical work
- Coating work is physical: expect to kneel, lift buckets and boxes, and be on your feet for most of both days.
How to enroll
Enrolling in each program
Each program has its own way in. Use the ones you need.
The Epoxy Playbook
Join the founding list below. The Playbook opens to the founding list first, and we text you when enrollment opens. It's a monthly membership: full installations recorded start to finish, plus the business side.
A hands-on class
Join the waitlist for your state below and complete the Playbook's installation recordings. When a class opens near you, we text you the dates, the location and how to book. Payment plans and financing will be available.
A consultation
Book a 30–45 minute planning call with someone who runs a coating company, whenever you're ready to make decisions about your start.
Free tools and guides
Nothing to enroll in. The calculators, templates and guides are open to everyone; the startup cost calculator asks for a mobile number to text you your total.
Sign up
Two lists, one phone number
Join one or both. We'll text you when the Playbook opens, and when a class opens in your state.
Hands-on class
What to bring to a hands-on class
Coating work means concrete dust on day one and two-part chemicals on day two. Plan for both.
Protective equipment
- A half-face respirator with organic-vapor cartridges and particulate filters, fitted to your face. They cost about $23–52 each.
- Safety glasses or goggles.
- Chemical-resistant gloves, several pairs of nitrile.
- Hearing protection for grinding.
- Knee pads.
What to wear
- Long sleeves and long pants you don't mind ruining. Cured epoxy doesn't wash out.
- Work boots. Spiked shoes are used to walk on wet coatings.
Owner: which equipment the partner trainer provides (respirators, spiked shoes, gloves) and which students bring, and whether lunch is included
Read the data sheets. Each coating's safety data sheet lists the protective equipment it calls for in Section 8. Many polyurethane and polyaspartic top coats are two-part products whose hardener contains isocyanates, which can cause occupational asthma and irritate the eyes, nose, throat and skin.
Grinding dust is regulated. OSHA's construction silica standard (29 CFR 1926.1153) limits respirable crystalline silica to 50 micrograms per cubic meter of air over an 8-hour day and sets dust controls for walk-behind floor grinders. That's why classes grind with a HEPA dust extractor.
Not sure yet?
Talk it through, or start free
How the school works
The online course, the hands-on classes, the consultation and the free tools, and who delivers each.
How it works
How tuition works
Payment plans, financing, what class tuition includes, and refunds.
Tuition and financing
Do I need experience to start?
No. The startup cost calculator and the start-a-business guide assume none. You watch every step of the installation on video in The Epoxy Playbook first, so you arrive at the hands-on class knowing what comes next and spend class time on the slab.
Who can enroll?
Anyone planning to start, or already running, an epoxy or concrete-coating business, including installers going out on their own and contractors adding coatings. No experience is needed. You’ll need a US mobile number to get our texts.
Do I need the Playbook before a hands-on class?
Yes, it’s required. You learn every step from the recordings first, so your two days on the slab go to doing the work rather than watching demonstrations.
How do I get a seat in a hands-on class?
Join the class waitlist for your state and complete the installation recordings in The Epoxy Playbook. When a class opens near you, we text you the dates, the location and how to book.
What should I bring to a hands-on class?
Work clothes and boots you don’t mind ruining. The enrollment page has a checklist of the protective equipment coating work calls for.
When will Epoxy Business School classes start?
Classes open state by state. None is scheduled yet. Leave your state and number on the class waitlist and we'll text you when one opens near you.
When does the online course open?
Enrollment opens to the founding list first. Leave your number on the course page and we'll text you when it opens.
Talk it through with an owner
A one-on-one call with someone who runs a coating company, to plan your start and pick the right class.