Advantages of Polyaspartic Coatings
Quick Cure
Experience rapid installation with polyaspartic coatings, allowing you to resume normal activities within hours.
Exceptional Durability
Withstand the test of time; polyaspartic coatings are resistant to UV fading, chemicals, and wear.
Aesthetic Flexibility
Choose from a wide array of colors and finishes that suit your personal style and enhance your space.
Eco-Conscious Options
Opt for low-VOC alternatives that are safer for both you and the environment.
While most flooring contractors still don’t know about polyaspartic – We have been installing it since 2012
Polyaspartic is a revolution in the coating industry. While it is not the best solution for every application, it’s a game changer for many.
Why is Polyaspartic a winner?
Polyaspartic brings amazing benefits to a resin floor because
- It cures faster – epoxy and most other resins take 8-24hrs to harden, to be ready for another coat. Polyaspartic takes 45-90 minutes. This can save days on a project.
- Polyaspartic has a faster return to use – Epoxy normally needs 2 days for light use, and 5-7 days for heavy use and chemical resistance. Polyaspartic is ready for light use in 4hrs and can handle vehicle traffic in 24hrs.
- Wear resistance – typically 3-5 times greater wear resistance than epoxy.
- UV Stable – A lot of resins will quickly discolour or turn yellow with sunlight or other UV exposure.
- Chemical resistance – Polyaspartic generally far exceeds the chemical resistance compared to other resins.
- Heat Resistance – epoxy is typically resistant to 50-60 Deg C, Polyaspartic to 145 Deg C.
When are other solutions preferred?
Sometimes other resins are a better choice.
- Heavy Impact – Polyaspartic resins can’t be applied as a thick coating. Because of their properties they have exceptional abrasion resistance, but don’t stand up well to heavy impact.
- Damp substrates – Polyaspartic chemistry works with chemical and moisture curing. If the coating is subject to moisture it will set very quickly and not form an acceptable bond to the substrate.
- Weak substrates – a combination of it’s fast cure and the lack of time to penetrate weak substrates, an epoxy primer is a better option for soft concrete floors.
When presented with these limitations, Polyaspartic can still be used as a top coat to give it’s high performance, with another type of resin mitigating the other issues.
How does the cost of Polyaspartic compare?
There are 2 main factors that influence the cost of a resin coating.
- The cost of installing
- The cost of the resin
The cost of polyaspartic resin is roughly twice the cost of epoxy, But we can bring those prices closer together because they both require the same surface preparation and we can install the polyaspartic in less site visits.
With an epoxy install, it’s typically 1 coat per day. So this entails travel to and from site each day, setting up and cleaning up each day.
With Polyaspartic, we just take an hour break, then back into the next coat.
What are the options with polyaspartic?
Polyaspartic is available as a clear or coloured resin (some manufacturers only do clear).
This allows us to provide a few options with the appearance of our finished floors.
- Sparta-Guard – is a plain coloured (one colour) glossy coating. Where required we can texture the surface with slip reduction grit or coarse sand, if you need to do wet areas.
- Sparta-Flake – has a coloured base coat, then a broadcast of coloured vinyl or acrylic flakes, for a speckled finish (we have a couple of ranges of colour blends available), this is then finished with a heavy coat of clear (or 2 coats if non slip is required)
- Sparta-Quartz – similar to Sparta-Flake, but used fine coloured sand as a decorative element.
Watch this run down of how we install Sparta-Flake
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