CoverShield U140 semi Gloss

[124ci]

I am getting to the end of my 28x36 garage build. Hanging lights this weekend hopefully, then on to the floors. I am thinking of using the U140 by CoverShield product, as I like the original concrete look, and I did not want to spend a lot of money on my floor. I want it a little glossy vs matte, and easy to sweep and mop, not to mention oil and fluid resistance. This looks like it provides my needs. Has anyone used this product? https://www.covertecproducts.com/pr...y-oil-and-stain-resistant-semi-gloss-coating/

Thanks

 

[Shea]

This type of product will work fairly well if you have smooth troweled or a power troweled surface. It's very similar to TS210 by Concrete Sealers USA.

https://allgaragefloors.com/ts210-concrete-sealer-review/

It's not quite as tough as some other options that are thicker and require concrete prep, but you still get a good value for your dollar, particularly when you include how easy it is to apply. It's also one of the few options that you can get with a matte finish.

 

[124ci]

I ordered 2 .5 gallons for my 1000 sq ft garage. I liked that you could also buy it in quarts. Shea, that is a good review you gave of ts210 in my opinion. Hopefully I will get started on it next week. I called CoverShield to see if I needed a primer for my power troweled floor, as I was under the impression that when you pour a shot glass of water onto the floor, it needed to absorb into the floor in a couple minutes. Mine took about 12 minutes for it all to absorb. Charles at CoverShield made me aware that the concrete surface only need to get dark within a few minutes. Mine took about 2-3 minutes for the surface to get dark{absorb water}, so therefor I did not need a primer.

 

[Shea]

Great! You will have to let us know how it turns out and how you like it. Try to take pics before and after if you can. It really helps other people who are searching for floor coating ideas - especially those with a matte finish.

 

[124ci]

Will do. The instructions say the surface needs to be 50 degrees. If the surface is at that temperature, I should be able to get to it at the first of the week. After about a week or so after the application, I will be using a forklift installing a 4 post lift. It is suppose to hold up to forklift traffic. I know it is not exactly traffic, but its the best I can do. I will take a few pics of the process.

 

[Steve in UT]

I am also interested in and curious about U140. Please let us know how it goes.

 

[124ci]

I was able to finish the second coat today, as I put the first coat on yesterday. The process was pretty straight forward, but as with anything, you always learn the first time. I mixed it per instructions and then set my stop watch to keep up with time. I had help with someone spraying and I started out using a microfiber flat mop. I did not pre wet the mop head enough and that made me think that is was not working very well, so I switched to the 1/4inch nap roller. 9 inch was the widest I could find. That was working great up till about 70 minutes into the process and near the end also. I noticed it was not spreading the same as before, or spraying the same. I also was shaking the mixture every 10 minutes per instructions. It still all worked out fine, just did not spread the same as in the beginning. After I was through with the first coat, I emailed covershield with some questions about the change. They responded to me on Sunday about an hour after my email was sent. Charles said that the chemical was probably getting thicker due to the pot life. The instructions say 90 minutes pot life, and I read somewhere 2 hours I thought. For me, it was 70 minutes. For the 2nd and last coat today, about 17 hours after the first, I decided to try that 17 inch microfiber flat mop again. This time I pre wet the mop pretty good. What a difference. Did the floor in 40 minutes with 2 people. I would not use the 9 inch roller again. It came out pretty much the way I expected. Kinda hard to do it wrong. I got about 1000 sq ft out of a gallon. Instructions say 800 sq ft per gallon. Instructions also say that I can burnish the floor within a time frame if I want more shine. In my opinion, it does not look like semi gloss at this stage, but it might be I guess. I do not know what matte looks like in order to compare. I am not going to burnish it because I am satisfied so far. I just want the oil stain protection. It still feels lightly tacky, as after 17 hours the first coat did also. After about three days I will post my opinion on the floor coating. I have slow internet, so I will post a few pics at different times.

 

[124ci]

Thought I would give an update to the lightly "tacky" feel. It no longer feels that way, as it is just normal. Not slippery at all, but when I used the push broom on it, wow, it was like pushing it across glass. No resistance like before, also no concrete dusting. Hopefully mopping will be the same way. The temps here were 40 at night and 70 in the day, the surface off the concrete was at 56-58 when I did it. I guess that is why the tacky feel, slower cure time, as the coldest they recommend is 50 degrees surface temp. As I learn more I will keep posting, hopefully this helps someone that does not want to spend a lot on there floor, as it so far I am happy with the results.

 

[ducatithunder]

Any pictures of the finished dry look? Curious how much gloss is left once dry. Did you have any shrinkage cracks on your floor? Did this fill into them well or did you patch/fill prior to coating. TIA.

 

[124ci]

The previous pic that say 2nd coat is the finished dry look. The wet coat was taken about 40 min after applied. I only had a couple chips that bothered me, and I patched them first. I also had a couple of small oil stains that I could not remove for the effort I was willing to do. It did not bother me. The tire tracks under my truck are simply dust from the tires, comes right off. In my opinion, this coating will not make a bad floor look good, might even show up imperfections more. I am liking it so far. Nowhere near to glossy. I wiped the water up after a couple hours in the pic. You can see where I did the small patch work between the bikes.

 

[ducatithunder]

Thanks for the clarification. Def looks glossier in the wet pic vs almost no gloss in the other pics. Appears to be more matte then gloss. Are you happy with the gloss or do you wish it might have had a little more shine?

 

[124ci]

In the beginning, before I decided what I wanted, I wanted more shine. Now, I think less shine is better. My floor has imperfections, not the best concrete finish. A shine only highlights those areas imo. The instructions say you can burnish to a higher shine. I did get some water on it today. Slippery when wet.

 

[tstealth32]

I think this is the way i'm going...u140 semi gloss. 30 days since pour will be next week.

 

[Steve in UT]

Looks like I took the bait. Just ordered 8 gal. Of U140

 

[124ci]

I've been out of town for a few days. I don't have anymore to add at this time. I am still satisfied at this point. Will be installing lift soon, so will be seeing how well the floor holds up to working on it.

 

[avrobob]

Trying to decide between this and TS210 for a new shop getting built this month.

 

[124ci]

I went thru the same thought. I chose u140 because of the semi gloss and the burnishing option.

 

[124ci]

Steve, did you get the semi gloss or matte?

 

[Steve in UT]

I went semi gloss. I am also going to put a coat of densifier. Along with a little tougher concrete, I thought there might be a chance it would be a bit glossier since it won't absorb quite as much u140. It's an experiment I suppose.

 

[tstealth32]

Mine comes on the 3rd. I also bought the densifier and semi gloss.

 

[124ci]

Keep us updated on how the coating does for ya'll, especially if the densifier makes the semi gloss more glossy. I thought about doing that also, cause it cant be done later. I was told that if my concrete was not dusting, it was overkill, but I did not ask covertech. Maybe I should have asked them. Oh well, I got around to installing the lift using the forklift. It did alot of turning around in small areas, marked up my floor pretty good. I swept the marks quickly to see if it came up. It did not. I was a little irritated at first, but it is a garage floor. The instructions said it will hold up to forklift traffic, I believe. The forklift sat in one spot for 4 days, and it leaks brake fluid or hydraulic, not sure which. Anyway, when I moved the forklift I saw the wet spot. Wiped right up and I cant find where it was, so I would say it works pretty good. After a few days of lift install, little each day, I cleaned one 10x10 square with water, no chemicals. I think I read somewhere not to use chemicals for cleaning, not sure. The forklift tracks are not gone, but close to being gone. It does not bother me like it did. I only cleaned that one area at this time. I took a pic of my concrete apron to show how much tire marks the forklift did to it.

 

[Steve in UT]

I assume the apron wasn't treated? It looks almost like the tires burnished the finish in the garage.

 

[124ci]

The apron is brush finished, and no it was not treated. I am going to put a sealer on that when the other half of the apron finishes curing. The concrete guy tore half the apron out and replaced it about 3 weeks ago, due to a rather large crack. Those forklift marks cleaned right up with a pressure washer on the apron. You can barely see the marks on the square that I cleaned in the garage now.

 

[Jking24]

I was able to finish the second coat today, as I put the first coat on yesterday. The process was pretty straight forward, but as with anything, you always learn the first time. I mixed it per instructions and then set my stop watch to keep up with time. I had help with someone spraying and I started out using a microfiber flat mop. I did not pre wet the mop head enough and that made me think that is was not working very well, so I switched to the 1/4inch nap roller. 9 inch was the widest I could find. That was working great up till about 70 minutes into the process and near the end also. I noticed it was not spreading the same as before, or spraying the same. I also was shaking the mixture every 10 minutes per instructions. It still all worked out fine, just did not spread the same as in the beginning. After I was through with the first coat, I emailed covershield with some questions about the change. They responded to me on Sunday about an hour after my email was sent. Charles said that the chemical was probably getting thicker due to the pot life. The instructions say 90 minutes pot life, and I read somewhere 2 hours I thought. For me, it was 70 minutes. For the 2nd and last coat today, about 17 hours after the first, I decided to try that 17 inch microfiber flat mop again. This time I pre wet the mop pretty good. What a difference. Did the floor in 40 minutes with 2 people. I would not use the 9 inch roller again. It came out pretty much the way I expected. Kinda hard to do it wrong. I got about 1000 sq ft out of a gallon. Instructions say 800 sq ft per gallon. Instructions also say that I can burnish the floor within a time frame if I want more shine. In my opinion, it does not look like semi gloss at this stage, but it might be I guess. I do not know what matte looks like in order to compare. I am not going to burnish it because I am satisfied so far. I just want the oil stain protection. It still feels lightly tacky, as after 17 hours the first coat did also. After about three days I will post my opinion on the floor coating. I have slow internet, so I will post a few pics at different times.

Trying to figure the quantity i need just to be clear you were able to cover 1000sqft with 2 coats using a total if 1 gallon. 1/2 gallon per coat

 

[124ci]

No. I got 1000 sq ft out of 1 gallon.

 

[Jking24]

Ok thanks

 

[Steve in UT]

I hope we are ok hijacking your post 124ci and using it as the community u140 forum? If so, I will give a little update. If not I will move it.

I have been power washing one inch strips at a time to try to get rid of the overspray left from the painters. 3,000 sqft takes a long time to cover at a slow paced 1" strip. There are a few places I'm still not completely happy with. I will probably rent a buffer and go over it with a black pad. The worst thing is, UPS destroyed one of my 4 gallon kits. All that made it to me was a beat up 1/2 gal of catalyst. In any case I will hopefully finish what I can with my single 4 gal kit next week.

Wet power washed floor.

 

[124ci]

great! Look forward to seeing the progress.

 

[Steve in UT]

I spent Friday and Saturday with a floor buffer I rented from Home Depot. I gotta say, I am very impressed with the results. My floor was power troweled and fairly smooth. But using the black scotch bright type pads gave me a near polished finish. We used them with water, did a section at a time(about 10'X10')and had to rinse the slurry off and out before it dried. Seemed to be kinda hard to remove if it dried. We got about 900 sqft per pad, so 3 pads did the job for us. The only problem I have at this point is my concrete is kinda ugly. It is very dark with black blotches. Oh, and I started to use some concrete cleaner stuff I picked up at HD, that was a huge mistake. Besides having heck getting it rinsed off, it gave me a couple even darker black patches. Well, tomorrow I will start the coating process.

 

[124ci]

Looking forward to see how it turns out!

 

[Shea]

This has turned out to be an informative thread for this type of coating. Thanks 124ci! It's not always easy to decide on a product when you don't know what the end results will look like.

I just wanted to provide some photos of projects done with TS210 which was mentioned earlier. It's available in a matte finish only.

 

[tstealth32]

Densifier, primer, and 3 coats of u140. I let oil sit on top for 3 days....wiped right up.

 

[124ci]

How many sq ft per gallon did you get tstealh? Are you satisfied with the results?

 

[tstealth32]

Garage is 1200sf.

CD80- 1 gallon of concentrate got me 2400sf.
U140- first primer coat. 1.2 gal = 1200sf
U140- 1st coat. 1.2 gal = 1200sf
2nd coat. .8 gal= 1200sf
3rd coat. .8 gal = 1200sf

Total u140 used = 4 gallons.

After the 1st coat, this 2nd and 3rd go on really smooth and doesn't seep into the concrete, so that 1st coat does a great job.

So far I'm am very impressed, and it's not slippery.

 

[124ci]

Great. Mine is not slippery when dry either. does yours look semi gloss or matte?

 

[tstealth32]

I'd say semi gloss is pushing it, I'm going to rent a buffer from HD and try and bring out the gloss.

Here is what it looked like after the 2nd coat, but then the high gloss dried to mat to semi gloss.

 

[124ci]

That looks really good. Keep us posted on the buffer progress.

 

[Jking24]

Spoke to covertec today and they told me that you can also get u140 colored. Im waiting on some sample pics

 

[124ci]

Wow. I had not heard of that. I knew that you could stain the floor first. Let us know what you find out. Maybe you could post some of the pics.

 

[Steve in UT]

Tstealth, tell me about applying your densifier. I used a different brand of colloidal silica and been having a nightmare dealing with the residue.
Shea, from the looks of your pics and everyone else's, I'm not so sure both products aren't the same thing.