Polyaspartic is a different family of resin to epoxy, and it solves two problems epoxy has.
The first is cold. Epoxy wants around ten degrees in the slab and will stall or cure badly below that, while polyaspartic keeps going well under it, which is what makes winter work genuinely possible here instead of theoretical. The second is sunlight. Clear epoxy ambers wherever daylight reaches it, which is the resin doing exactly what that resin does rather than a defect, but it looks like a defect on a floor beside a window or inside an open garage door. Polyaspartic is UV stable and stays clear.
It also goes off far faster, which shortens the job and gets you back into the room sooner.
It goes on as the clear wear layer over almost every flake floor we install, whatever the base coat underneath is. As a full build it makes sense on any floor that gets daylight, so open garages, sunrooms, enclosed porches and shops with roll-up doors. It is also what we reach for on winter work, where an epoxy build would depend on weather nobody can promise, and on jobs where downtime is the expensive part and a shop cannot be closed for a week.
More per square foot. Across Ontario polyaspartic runs roughly $6 to $12 installed against roughly $5 to $9 for epoxy, and what you are buying with the difference is speed, cold tolerance and UV stability.
That is not always worth paying for. On a heated basement that never sees daylight, epoxy does the same job for less money. On a garage with the door open half the year, the polyaspartic is the one still looking right in five years.
Polyaspartic gives a much shorter working window. It is already curing while it is being applied, which means it wants people who have laid a lot of it and a clear plan for the room before anyone opens a tin. That is a good reason to be careful who lays it. It is not a reason to avoid it.
Call +1 226-457-4250 and tell us what the floor is and when you need it back. We will tell you honestly whether the faster resin earns its money on your job.
Farm shops, packing rooms, plants and patios, alongside the garage and basement work.
A flake floor is three layers doing three different jobs. A pigmented resin base goes down first, coloured vinyl chip is thrown into it while it is still wet, and once that has hardened a clear wear coat is rolled over the whole thing.
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A garage floor around here takes a beating that has very little to do with how carefully you park.
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A basement is the easiest room in the house to coat and the easiest one to get wrong, and in Chatham-Kent it is moisture that decides which of the two you end up with.
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Not every job is a garage. A good deal of what we coat is simply concrete that needs to stop being bare: a shop floor, a mechanical room, a storage building, a landing, a pad beside the lane.
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A working floor is specified against three things: what rolls across it, how it gets cleaned, and when the building can afford to be shut. Everything else follows from those answers, which is why a retail unit, a warehouse, an equipment shop and a packing room all end up with different builds even though they start from the same materials.
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An outdoor slab is not an indoor slab that happens to be outside. It has to handle daylight, standing water and a freeze-thaw cycle that runs all winter here, and it has a far shorter installation season. Use an indoor build outdoors and it will fail in the first spring.
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Peeling. Bubbling. Patches lifting where the tyres sit. A clear coat gone yellow by the window, or a floor that has simply turned dull and chalky.
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Metallic is the decorative end of what we do. Metallic pigment is dispersed through clear resin and then moved while it is still wet, so the finished floor ends up with depth and movement running through it and reads closer to polished stone than to a coating.
View Metallic Epoxy FlooringWe grind a small patch, take a moisture reading off the slab and leave a written spec behind. The visit is free.
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