The short answer
A double garage starts from approximately $2,450. Whether your floor lands near that or well above it comes down to five variables, and any quote that ignores them is guessing.
We give you a fixed written price after looking at the slab. Not before — because until someone has stood on your concrete, nobody can tell you what it needs.
1. Floor size
The obvious one, and the least interesting. A bigger floor costs more, but not proportionally: the set-up, the preparation equipment and the travel are much the same whether the slab is 32m² or 42m². This is why very small floors can feel expensive per square metre and large ones feel like better value.
2. The condition it is in now
This is the variable that moves a price most, and the one people are least able to judge from the doorway. A slab that has been sealed, painted or coated before has to have that dealt with first. So does one that is dusty, contaminated with oil, or carrying a curing compound from the day it was poured.
Two garages that look identical can be very different jobs once you know what has been on the floor.
3. How much preparation it needs
Preparation is not a line item you can trim. It is the part of the job that decides whether the floor is still stuck down in ten years, which is why we treat it as the job rather than as preparation for it.
Cracks are repaired where appropriate. Moisture moving through a slab is a different problem again, and one worth knowing about before you commit rather than after.
4. The finish you choose
A flake floor and a solid colour are different amounts of work. So is a floor that has to match something already in the space. We bring the options to the on-site quote so you can see them in your own light — screens are not a reliable guide to a floor.
5. Where you are
Taree, Forster, Tuncurry, Harrington, Blueys Beach and Pacific Palms are our core areas and are priced as such. Travel-heavy work, including Newcastle and the Hunter, has to be commercially viable and generally starts around $2,600.
What a fair quote looks like
It is written down. It follows someone actually looking at your slab. It says what preparation is included rather than leaving it vague. And it does not change on the day.
If a quote arrives without anyone seeing the floor, what you have is an estimate with a price attached — and the gap between the two usually appears once work starts.
