Rexthane I urethane

[davaldez21]

So I'm getting ready to do my epoxy this weekend. I finally found some local urethane I could use, aliphatic moisture cured single component urethane by sherwin Williams.
I'm having to drive 2 hrs to get it.
Anyways I had originally bought rustoleum professional solvent epoxy based due to good reviews online.

The rep at SW advised me it was better to use their product armor seal 1000 hs epoxy to make sure it's compatible. I understand armor seal should be at least equal to better. I just wasn't sure if it was worth the hassle of returning the other product back to Amazon

 

[bdamico]

I've seen this before. This might help

 

[davaldez21]

Would you mind elaborating on this I can't seem to play that clip

 

[Shea]

The SW combo is better than the Rust-Oleum product. It's worth the effort. Returning things to Amazon isn't that difficult.

 

[Armorpoxy]

Agree. We have lots of business replacing coatings from home centers or similar. Also always best to use products from the same mfgr otherwise if you have a failure there is no recourse.

SW and other professional products are much better. The best products in our opinion are 100% solids epoxies with urethane topcoats, they work great and give very long life. For the best job prime with matching epoxy primer. The reason for this is that priming sealed the floor so that the expensive sits up high and won't sink in, doubling of tripling the actual floor thickness.

If you think about it virtually any good coating on any surface is primed. We carry matching primers for all of our ARMORCLAD garage floor coatings and Armorpoxy coatings.

We own an installation company that applies our coatings in the NYC metro area and after about 8,000 installs we can comment on experience from the field.

 

[carhunter]

Did a bunch of online research before selecting ArmorSeal epoxy, as it seemed to be the choice that a lot of professional companies used.

Our SW rep convinced me to top the HS 1000 with Rexthane. I was leery because it wasn't a 2 part epoxy like the ArmorSeal - I didn't think a moistur cured product would could be as hard as an epoxy...but I did it and wow, what a gloss. The finish is HARD too.

Its a beautiful finish and so far has been very durable. I didn't expect it to look that good and wish I had cleaned up more of the defects in the slab before coating.

Bit of advice - stir the HS1000 well. The solids can really settle out and if you don't stir evenly it will show color differences in the final finish.

Also, the Rexthane smooths out as it dries. I used thin, but wet coats with a roller and it covered well. You must topcoat the entire area at once. With the basecoat, I was able to use seams in the floor as stopping points since I couldn't do the entire floor at once. However if you look closely you can see where I tried to blend the Rexthane from one area to the next. It doesn't blend into itself very well.

Only complaints so far...

1 - it is a PITA to keep clean...which isn't the fault of the protect, but its so darn pretty that you'll look at it and see dust tracks, water spots, etc on the finish and you'll want to clean it all the time.

2 - Sharp edges will gouge the topcoat (like dragging a shelf across the floor) Dolly wheels, carts, etc don't seem to cause any wear.