Understand Epoxy Coating Types and Properties

Hey, this is Chris Idaho Painter. Thanks for watching this free lesson on how to epoxy a garage floor. If you want to see more of my comprehensive course, it's at paintlifeupply.com. It goes over estimating, it goes over marketing, it goes over all the steps to complete a professional garage epoxy floor. So, hopefully enjoy this lesson. Thank you for watching. Today, I got Tony Schwarz with me from Rustoleum and we're going to be talking about epoxy and epoxy floors. And I kind of use that, you know, term. Um, in general, I've been doing epoxy floors for over, I don't know, somewhere like 25 years. But technology has changed. There's a lot of new terminology out there. And we're going to kind of like try to break this down and share with our audience. So, it's not so confusing like it was when I was trying to research and try to figure out cuz when I was doing epoxy floors, there was no such thing as like one day floors. Now, we got floors you can actually do in one day in and out. One of the terms that we're all familiar with is epoxy. And what can you tell me what an epoxy is, Tony? Yeah, absolutely. Well, an epoxy is the resin utilized for historically most flooring applications. Recently, there's been a lot of new technologies that have come on the market over the last 20 years, but epoxy is still far and wide the number one utilized resin on the market. We have what we call like one day floors and I started doing some research and there was two terms that I um started seeing and reading about and kind of watching videos on and one of them is polyurea and another one is polyaspartic. Can you tell me what a polyurea is? Definitely. So similar to the epoxy that is the resin the polyora and so where epoxy historically has been used to build thickness for a coating for its excellent adhesion to its early moisture tolerance polyurea is going to give us a lot of uh flexibility to our system uh meaning those micro cracks aren't necessarily going to show through as much. It also has a little bit deeper of a bond to a concrete surface uh providing uh excellent wear and tear for the long term. So, a polyurea bonds better than an epoxy. Yes and no. Uh it's kind of a little bit of misleading. Uh well, I shouldn't say misleading, but uh there there's all debate. It's tough to actually accurately tell if it is or not bonding better simply because the pull-off test that's utilized to determine adhesion, whether that's an epoxy or a polyora technology, if the surface…