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https://agioimaging.com/floorpix/ These guys are based out of Michigan, and they do the preprinted sheets. Not a cheap process, the material is expensive, and they spec 48 mils of clear epoxy, but they can do some pretty cool stuff. I found the larger pore size ones worked better, but they...

Scott from Liquid Granite does some amazing work http://www.liquidgranitecoatings.ca/ Painters Enterprise does a lot of floors in Edmonton as well http://www.paintersenterprise.com/ I don't have any personal knowledge of their work, but you could contact one of the local dealers and ask about...

That ***** to have happen, but I would have to agree with the people who are saying that it is a slab issue. It is pretty much impossible for a manufacturer to cover every base when outgassing from a substrate is involved. We moved into a new building last January and we coated all of our...

Is that a specific brand? I know of Liquid Granite Coatings out of the Edmonton area but I imagine it is a generic enough name that there are lots of variations? I am not aware that those guys doing anything but full installations. If that is the company you are talking about, they do some...

Odd because up here in Edmonton basements are the warmest part of the house in the winter, hahaha. My parents house is entirely heated by underfloor heating (for a house built in the late 80's it was pretty cutting edge). The upstairs bathroom had a tile floor that was always cold in the...

Check out this article from PaintSquare from a week or so ago, http://www.paintsquare.com/news/?fuseaction=view&id=8338&nl_versionid=2328 Example of an issue where a clearcoat that should have adhered to epoxy had problems. Clearcoats can be UV stable and may contain UV-inhibitors, but being...

I have used the same mixing bucket before but personally I like to use multiple fresh ones just for peace of mind. With some coatings the already mixed material can act as a catalyst and shorten the potlife of the newly mixed material. I also use the graduated mixing containers, so when doing...

There's a few methods to getting a clean line, but all of them tend to be kind of tricky. I know one guy who tapes lines, rolls on a decent coat and then has another person pull the tape pretty much right after and he says that works for him. He also mixes the product (in this case a...

HP SpartaCote is a pretty big boy in the polyaspartic business, usually have a pretty impressive (if not just expensive) booth at World of Concrete. Their claim to fame was having a patent on overindexing polyaspartics above a 1.5 ratio, which they call 'dual cure' as its a mix of moisture cure...

Polyaspartics can cure just fine without the presence of water. However, water does catalyze the cure speed. One component 'polyureas' are entirely moisture cure, but are a different animal. Polyaspartics, like any other coating, can be formulated to application requirements. For roller...

I've seen the mixing stick method end up with problems before. One of the biggest causes for error with this method is the container being mixed in. A standard 5 gallon pail does not have straight sides, and usualy not a completely flat bottom. For an example, using a mixing stick marked at 6...