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Epoxy Top Coat

Sealers For Urethane Top Coat For Epoxy Floor, Polyurethane Top Coat Over Epoxy

TOP COAT OVER EPOXY

Are you in need of a top coat for your epoxy?

If you’re looking for a durable, long-lasting epoxy floor coating, you may want to consider a urethane top coat. Urethane top coats are designed to improve the chemical and abrasion resistance of epoxy, helping reduce maintenance in high-traffic areas.

Rexshield Epoxy Top Coat

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RexShield Epoxy Top Coat

Concrete Sealer, Epoxy Sealer, Tile Sealer, Paver Sealer

Benefits of the RexShield Epoxy Top Coat

The RexShield family of products offers a number of products that can be applied over Epoxy to create a glossy, satin or matte finish. Unlike urethane products, RexShield is an inorganic material that will offer many benefits for your epoxy floors.
Urethane top coats are typically applied over an epoxy base coat with a roller or sprayer. If you’re using a roller, you’ll want to make sure that the urethane top coat is designed for roller application. While urethanes offer an improvement over epoxy alone, a common complaint is that they can create an “orange peel” effect on top of the smoother epoxy floors. In addition, urethanes are only moderately hard, abrasion and scratch resistant.

Top Coat Over Epoxy

Are you in need of a top coat for your epoxy? While epoxy is a durable surfacing material it can quickly lose its luster and become scratched and dull. There are a number of products on the market today that are used as a top coat to protect epoxy but the various drawbacks inherent to these conventional solutions have left contractors and building owners seeking for a more reliable choice.

Traditional Approach to Epoxy Top Coats - Urethane

Urethanes have been the predominant choice up until recently to protect the finish of epoxy floors. While urethanes do a good job of this some of the complaints that contractors and owners have are the following:

  • The once smooth and shiny epoxy gets an orange peel texture from the urethane
  • It is not as hard and scratch resistant as was hoped for
  • It leaves an uneven film which changes the color of the epoxy
  • It can be prone to staining and marring from “hot tire pick up”
  • It is topical and does not penetrate into the epoxy providing a relatively week bond and reduced overall hardness
Quick Dry Times An alternate solution that contractors across the US are switching to is the RexShield line of nano-ceramic epoxy top coats. These ultra-hard coatings create a smoother finish over epoxy while offering substantial improvements in abrasion, scratching and chemical resistance. Similar in chemical structure to glass,

Benefits of RexShield Epoxy Top Coat

1. Increased Hardness

With a chemical structure similar to glass RexShield products are designed to repel scratching and abrasion and are much harder than urethanes

2. Smoother Finish

RexShield does not develop an orange peel finish, and can either mirror or enhance the finish of the epoxy depending on the desired finish look.

3. Chemically Resistant

RexShield products are completely chemically inert. Even corrosives like acetone, hydraulic fluid, MEK and other caustic substances have little to no effect.

4. Quick Dry Times

RexShield products can be walked on within 2-4 hours of application. This speeds of projects and helps keep budgets in line.

Sealers For Urethane Top Coat For Epoxy Floor, Polyurethane Top Coat Over Epoxy

Urethane top coats are typically applied over an epoxy base coat with a roller or sprayer. If you’re using a roller, you’ll want to make sure that the urethane top coat is designed for roller application. While urethanes offer an improvement over epoxy alone, a common complaint is that they can create an “orange peel” effect on top of the smoother epoxy floors. In addition, urethanes are only moderately hard, abrasion and scratch resistant.
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RexShield bonds like no other and provides the ultimate linking technology

RexShield bonds via a covalent bond, which is the ultimate linking technology between a sealer and its substrate. It is easy to apply, can be walked on within 4 hours and will protect your epoxy for years to come.

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