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UV Stable Urethanes and Polyaspartic Coatings

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When people think of Epoxy.com they immediately know that we sell epoxy. However, did you know that Epoxy.com has an extensive line of high end polyurethanes, and Polyaspartic coatings? These Polyurethanes and Polyaspartic coatings are Ultraviolet light stable, resisting oxidation and fading even in direct sunlight. These materials are 2-component and are very high solids.

Hybrid Coating and Flooring Systems

My family car is an SUV Hybrid gas-electric SUV. It gives lots of room with great power, very high fuel economy, long driving range and low emissions. In spite of all the hype over other cheaper technologies, the gas-electric Hybrid technologies remains the biggest revolution to automotives because it is the only technology that offers it all.

The biggest revolutions in the concrete repair and coating industry are coming from hybrid coating systems. Epoxy, for example, bonds better than virtually every other coating known to man. Yet even the most UV resistant epoxies will oxidize and change color under direct outdoor sunlight. Aliphatic Polyurethanes and Polyaspartic Coatings are virtually unaffected by even the most intense brutal sunlight.

Hybrid coating systems have it all. Prime with Epoxy Primer and you get the tenacious bond of Epoxy. Install our Polyaspartic or Polyurethane coating on top of that and the epoxy actually bonds to the coating going over it. Now you have the best of both products, a coating that can last for decades, without yellowing or chaulking.

Water Based 2-Component Aliphatic Polyurethane Coatings

Product # 441 Urethane Coating and Sealing Resin is a 2-component water-based aliphatic (non-yellowing) polyurethane. It is free of the health and environmental problems normally found in solvent-based urethanes, while maintaining excellent performance properties. Product # 441 Urethane Coating and Sealing Resin provides a matte finish. Product # 441 Urethane Coating and Sealing Resin has good chemical, stain, and mar resistance. In addition, it is easy to clean and has excellent color retention under heavy foot traffic. It is a high performance coating for use in a variety of seamless floor and wall coating systems. Product # 441 Urethane Coating and Sealing Resin eliminates the strong solvent odor normally associated with many high performance materials. It is ideal for topcoats and finishes that require high abrasion resistance. Typical application areas are clean rooms, hospitals, pharmaceutical facilities, stained concrete, wood floors, and as a seal coat for most Epoxy.com floor and wall coating systems.

Product #442 is similar to product #441 but with a gloss finish.

Solvent Based 2-Component Aliphatic Polyurethane Coatings

Product #402 – 2 Component Chemical Resistant Coating

Product #402 – 2 Component Chemical Resistant Coating is a two component chemical resistant polyurethane coating with gloss finish offers excellent abrasion resistance, chemical and stain resistance, and color retention. Product #402 – 2 Component Chemical Resistant Coating can be used equally well on vertical or horizontal surfaces. It is ideal for concrete floors and walls in warehouses, storage facilities, aircraft hangers, animal housing, and vehicle maintenance facilities. This Product is not for use in California Use Product #406 – Two Component Low VOC Chemical Resistant Urethane Coating when a California Compliant low VOC product is required, or desired.

Product #406 2-Component Polyurethane Coating

Product #406 is a two component, chemical resistant, polyurethane coating. Product #406 is a low VOC compliant urethane that meets all federal and state environmental air quality standards. The high gloss finish offers excellent abrasion resistance, chemical and stain resistance, and superior color retention. Product #406 Chemical Resistant Urethane can be used equally well on vertical or horizontal surfaces. It is ideal for concrete floors and walls in warehouses, storage facilities, aircraft hangars, animal housing, and vehicle maintenance facilities. Available in both clear and pigmented formulations, Product#406 Duel Component Chemical Resistant Urethane can be used as a finish coating option for most Flooring Systems. In smaller quantities this products is only available in clear. There is a 30 gallon minimum for pigmented.

Polyaspartic Coating

Product #488 UV Stable Aliphatic Polyaspartic Coating is a two component, ultra high solids, aliphatic polyurethane designed to provide high gloss, UV stable (non-yellowing) and chemical resistant protection. Product #488 Aliphatic Polyaspartic Coating is a superior, new generation product exhibiting fast cure time and excellent stain resistance. Product #488 Aliphatic Polyaspartic Coating has very low odor and can be applied indoors in occupied areas. Product #488 Aliphatic Polyaspartic Coating is generally used as a clear or pigmented high gloss finish Epoxy.com decorative and industrial flooring systems such as Epoxy.com Chip Flooring (garage floor finish).

More Information on Polyurethane and Polyaspartic Coatings

For more information call 352-533-2167 or email norm@epoxy.com.

Improved Epoxy Gel Adhesives Added to Epoxy.com

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What are Epoxy Gel Adhesives

Epoxy Gel Adhesives are thickened 100% solid 2-Component Epoxy Resin and Epoxy Hardener systems. Epoxy Gel Adhesives come in various viscosities from whip cream consistency to clay consistency. Some Epoxy Gel Adhesives have a longer working time, and slow set. Some Epoxy Gel Adhesives have a short working time and fast set.

Epoxy Gel Adhesives can have a “high modulus of elasticity” (rigid), or a “low modulus of elasticity” (flexible to semi-flexible). All the Epoxy Gel Adhesives that we sell are very strong. Our Epoxy Gel Adhesives when applied to most common construction structural material that are properly prepared have a bond strength to the substrate greater than the tensile strength of the material you are bonding to. In other words if you go to pull it off from the substrate that you are bonded to, the substrate will fail before the bond of the Epoxy Gel Adhesive will fail.

Uses for Epoxy Gel Adhesives

Epoxy Gel Adhesives are one of the most versatile tools in the construction industry. Epoxy Gel Adhesives are useful for bonding concrete to concrete, wood to concrete, wood to wood, and for that matter most typical construction structural materials to other construction structural materials. Epoxy Gel Adhesives are also useful in patching and repairing inperfections in concrete, wood and steel. Epoxy Gel Adhesives have also successfully been used to repair wood damaged by termites, wet rot, or dry rot. Epoxy Gel Adhesives are used in setting dowel bars, anchor bolts, and ports for epoxy injection.

Newest Epoxy Gel Adhesives Added to Epoxy.com Product line.

Product #2005 Low Modulus Fast Setting Epoxy Gel is a two component 100% solids designed for shallow repair on either vertical or horizontal surfaces. This product is easy to mix and use and has the consistency of Vaseline petroleum jelly. Additionally, the product, because it is a 100% solids product, can be applied thicker on horizontal surfaces when required.

Product #2006 – Epoxy High-Mod Gel Adhesive and Bonding Resin is a 100% solids high-mod epoxy gel adhesive used for vertical and overhead bonding applications and structural repairs. Epoxy High-Mod Gel Adhesive and Bonding Resin – Product #2006 is also used as a grout for anchor bolts, dowels and rebar. Epoxy High-Mod Gel Adhesive and Bonding Resin – Product #2006 Meets ASTM C881 Requirements for Type I, Type II, Grade 3, Class B, C, D, E.

Product #2007 Epoxy Fresh Concrete to Hardened Concrete Adhesive is a two component, 100% solids epoxy resin system designed to bond new concrete to old and other materials to concrete. It has a convenient 2:1 mix ratio, by ASTM C-881-90, Types I, II, IV and V, Grade 2, Class “B” and “C” volume with a viscosity similar to heavyweight oil. Epoxy Fresh Concrete to Hardened Concrete Adhesive #2007 (adhesive) exceeds the requirements of ASTM C-881 Type II, Grade 2, Class “B” “C” “D” and E.

Product #2011 Low Modulus Fast Set Epoxy Gel is a two component 100% solids polymer system designed for applications where a resilient joint material is needed. The two component material (standard) is supplied with a gray component and a clear component. Product #2011 was developed for plural component pump equipment, and is available in cartridge units.

Product #2704 Epoxy Gel Super Fast Cure is a fast setting, 100% solids epoxy crack gel and filler used to line, patch, or repair floor and wall surfaces. Epoxy Gel Super Fast Cure Product #2704 is the ideal material for repair of surfaces damaged from environmental or chemical attack. Epoxy Gel Super Fast Cure Product #2704 can also be used as a base material beneath coating, slurry, and mortar systems to repair before coating.

Product #2707 Splash Zone Epoxy and Underwater Epoxy Paste is a moisture-insensitive, two-component, 100% solids epoxy-resin system. Splash Zone Epoxy and Underwater Epoxy Paste Product #2707 is mixed at a 2:1 ratio, by volume, this product produces a paste-like material that is ideal for protection or restoration of concrete, steel and timber piles and other structural elements in marine environments.

Limitations

Epoxy.com does not recommend using any epoxy gel adhesive to bond anything to a ceiling without reliable mechanical methods of attachment as well.

More Information on Epoxy Gel Adhesives

Contact Epoxy.com Technical Support by phone 352-533-2167 or email info@epoxy.com for more information.

 

Epoxy Chip Floors

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Heavy traffic on floors often make the use of decorative flooring products impossible. To make this possible we created System #315 Seamless Epoxy Multi-Colored Flake Chip Floor Resurfacing System. Our #315 Chip System creates a beautiful, durable, and affordable floor that is easy to apply by both professionals and do-it-yourself enthusiasts.

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A Vermont Interstate Rest Area after over 15 years

What is new and unique?

At last there is a high quality seamless floor finish which can be provided in every desirable color combination. This system is easy to use, by any skilled do-it-yourselfer or coating professional. For potential customers, both commercial applicators and the do-it-yourselfer, the final result is most certainly beautiful, affordable, and its durability insures the product to be long lasting, waterproof, easy to clean, and maintenance free.

System #315 Seamless Epoxy Multi-Colored Chip Flooring is available in virtually limitless color combinations. If your job is big enough our chips can be pigmented to match all the colors of many major paint companies. We can color match our base coat colors as well. Unless the pigments for your custom colored 315 Basecoat are unusually expensive we can color match for a modest small batch charge, or at no charge for larger orders.  Even our standard color pallet offers you over 45 chip colors that can be blended in any combination and percentage as you want.

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Water Plant after more than 15 years

By matching the base coat color in the chip, you make the system much less prone to error.  If you should happen to miss a small spot on the floor the base color shows through, looking like it is just more of that chip in that area.

System #315 chips are also available in 7 sizes ranging from a 1 inch chip down to 1/32 inch chip.  Smaller chips give the look a lot like epoxy quartz flooring. The various colors and sizes allow you to give your floor any number of looks like stone, terrazzo, colored quartz, or vibrant linoleum.

Our clear glaze coat does not yellow quickly like other epoxies.  We have some jobs that have been around for 30 years or more where no yellowing can be found, not even under the urinals in high school bathrooms. This kind of durability is perhaps the most important quality of the #315 Chip Flooring System.  Anyone can provide you with a flooring system that is attractive today.  The #315 Chip Flooring System is the flooring system you need if you want it to stay like that for years to come.

Epoxy.com Resin Products and Systems

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Today’s Resin

The Right Resin System for the Right Job

We want you to have the “Right Resin Product for the Right Job”, so we are always looking to improve our systems with new epoxy technology and new epoxy resin formulations. Today we are featuring a Methyl Methacrylate MMA not an epoxy.  We are not just about epoxy but we want you to have the right resin system for your job.

 

MMA Concrete Crack Healer and Sealer

684LV – MMA CONCRETE CRACK HEALER and SEALER replaces Epoxy.com Product #685.  MMA CONCRETE CRACK SEALER Product #684LV is a 100% reactive ultra-low viscosity methyl methacrylate resin used as a penetrating crack sealer or to fortify extremely porous concrete substrates. MMA CONCRETE CRACK SEALER Product #684LV is typically used on bridge decks, parking structures, and floors or as a general penetrating sealer to prevent moisture intrusion.

One of the major advantages of MMA CONCRETE CRACK SEALER Product #684LV is its very low viscosity.  It is about the viscosity (thickness) of diesel fuel, so it soaks into the concrete and down into small cracks quickly.  It hardens in about an hour.  When it hardens it hardens with a bond strength to clean concrete that is greater than the tensile strength of that concrete.  In other words you have just chemically welded the two sides of the crack together, so that it is as if the crack had never happened.

The very fast setting time allows you to install you flooring or sealer system the same day that you repair your crack. At Epoxy.com we are all about systems.  Combining the right resin product to create the right system for your job.