Beautiful Garage Floors In One Day
Used to take three to five days to install an epoxy three-coat flooring system in your garage. Typically, the floor was prepared and primed on the first day, a body coat installed on the second day, and a clear coat on the third day. Depending on the ambient temperature, the coating then took anywhere from one to three days to cure before you could drive on the floor. Now with AcryliGuard, a four-coat flooring system can be installed in one day and you can drive on it within an hour.
AcrilyGuard Beautiful Garage Floors In One Day
The AcryliGuard material is a liquid plexiglass that is 100% solid and doesn’t contain any solvents. When the material is activated, the chemical structure of the material simply changes from a liquid to a solid within about 30 minutes and doesn’t require any time to dry or cure. Like any coating system, the preparation
of the concrete surface is the main key to success! Shot blasting or diamond grinding is the best method to prepare concrete because it removes contaminants, opens the pores of the concrete, and increases the surface area 200% to 300%, allowing the coating materials to penetrate and anchor.
Unlike epoxies and urethanes, the AcryliGuard will never turn yellow or become brittle, which makes a coating more susceptible to chipping and cracking. Another significant benefit is that it doesn’t become slippery when wet. This is why grocery stores such as Fred Meyer use this product in their produce department. Epoxy and urethane systems require the addition of aluminum oxide for non-slip, which is effective, but makes a floor more difficult to clean.
Although this technology has been around for more than 30 years, Specialty Coatings was the first company to use AcryliGuard in the residential market. Specialty Coatings has installed more than one million square feet of the AcryliGuard system on a wide variety of applications including the Hood River Bridge, restaurant kitchens, and commercial parking garages. Specialty Coatings is also a Master Contractor for epoxy, cementious urethanes, and concrete polishing designed for commercial and industrial applications. via Portlandhome magazine.
