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FCUSA 100% Polyaspartic Coatings Systems
A garage is a haven for many people. With FCUSA 100% polyaspartic coating systems, you can choose the look that fits you and your décor. By varying the combination of color flakes and chip size, our applicators can achieve just about any appearance for your garage floor coating. One great way to do that is with our beautiful, durable garage floor coatings expertly installed by Your Garage Cave’s qualified floor technicians. FCUSA 100% polyaspartic coating systems lead the seamless resinous concrete floor coatings industry by outperforming and outlasting other polyurea, polyaspartic and epoxy floors across the nation.
Garage Floor Coatings
Long-lasting, beautiful garage floor coatings: Polyaspartic 100% UV Stable.
Patios & Exterior Concrete
Transform your outdoor spaces with our long-lasting and beautiful concrete coatings. Polyaspartic 100% UV Stable.
Interior Floor Coatings
Give your interior floors a fresh look with our durable and beautiful coatings. Polyaspartic 100% UV Stable.
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Polyaspartic floor coatings offer many benefits for your garage floor and home.
Epoxy is no longer the leading choice for garage floor coating systems; polyaspartic coatings are more durable, attractive, and are extremely affordable. Learn more about why polyaspartic is superior to epoxy floor coatings below!
Polyaspartic Floor Coating vs. Epoxy
How does FCUSA 100% Polyaspartics systems stack up against the competition?
FCUSA Polyaspartics offers 2x more floor value than epoxies and polyurea flooring with a true one-day return to service floor.
Stacking the floor value from bottom to top, we learn the following:
Factory Pigmented Basecoat
First, after proper surface preparation and crack repair we apply 4 to 7 mils of the non-yellowing all-polyaspartic self-prime color coat that wets, wicks, and bonds to the concrete, and while still wet accepts the 4 to 5 mils color flakes being broadcast into it.
Adhesive Strength
Our bond strength is greater than the cohesive strength of the concrete itself. Adhesion strength >500 psi ASTM-d-4514.
Color Flakes and Yellowing
Since the layer of color flakes do not totally block UV rays, the primer color layer can yellow and discolor. This is a critical material selection because it’s generic resin composition determines if the total system will remain resistant to yellowing and discoloration from UV rays. Epoxies or polyurea primers are aromatic resins in chemical composition and will cause yellowing and discoloration when UV rays penetrate through the layer of color flakes. A 100% all polyaspartic self-prime product like FLEXMAR® NextGen® Polyaspartics is aliphatic in chemical composition and will not yellow or discolor underneath the color flakes.
Top Clear Coat
At the top of the floor system is a clear coat layer. FLEXMAR® NextGen® Polyaspartics offers 7 – 12 mils thickness. This clear coat gives a wear layer that is 4 X greater than the wear and direct impact resistance of epoxies. FLEXMAR® NextGen® Polyaspartics Flooring stacks up against the competition by providing superior adhesion, nonyellowing, and 4x greater wear resistance. In addition, due to the quick recoat and return to service, the value remains on the floor.
MATERIAL – LABOR = FLOOR VALUE
The value is left on your floor with FLEXMAR® NextGen® Polyaspartics
Why Is FCUSA 100% Polyaspartics systems Different from Other Coatings?
- FCUSA Polyaspartics branded label is a Commercial/Industrial Quality system for residential garage floors
- Primer coat does not allow yellowing or discoloration underneath the flakes or chips from UV sunlight
- 6 hours from start of installation to finish then immediate return of belongings
- High direct impact and wear resistance 4x greater than epoxy
- 40% of cost is material that remains on the floor. Only 20% of the epoxy or polyurea system’s value remains on the floor
- Adhesion to concrete greater than cohesive strength of concrete itself: Greater than 500 psi
- FCUSA labeled containers with 100% All Polyaspartic commercial/industrial coatings with technical and safety data sheets available
- Resistant to hot tire pickup
- Does not support the growth of bacteria or fungus
KNOW THE PRODUCTS YOU ARE COMPARING
Tips from Carl the Chemist!
The answers center around performance properties, longevity of the coating, aesthetics, return to service and cost. Each impacts the owners in what they pay initially, how long it will last and what the aesthetics look like after 1 to 2 years and even 10 to 20!
So every home owner should ask themselves … what is most important? the lowest price or the highest quality coating system? Not always is the highest price the best quality system! We are proud of provide you with answers to all the questions you need to make an educated decision where your hard earned dollars are best spent!
Price competition is driving the initial installation cost downward. The only way to lower the price of a completed floor coating is to reduce the material cost and or lower the thickness of the coating. If lowest price is the owner’s objective, they have a choice between an epoxy/polyaspartic or polyurea/polyaspartic system. Remember the possible reasons behind lowest price are lower product cost of epoxy and polyurea because they are aromatic in chemical makeup and yellow and discolor which is why many are excluding yellowing and discoloration from their warranties. The epoxy and polyurea are the resinous part of the coating and they can be further modified with cheap plasticizers and other reactive resins.
The other is the colorant and pigment part of the coating representing cheap low-quality fillers that only increase the solids content. These consist of either talc (baby powder), calcium carbonate or barium sulfate and they detract from quality performance. To gain a competitive edge by having the lowest price, an epoxy or polyurea formulator can easily do the above and disregard quality. Remember the saying “You get what you pay for”. Another way to lower the selling price to the owner is to apply a thinner polyaspartic clear coat by 40 to 50% less.
Your Garage Cave can provide a free estimate or quick quote,
Many variables go into pricing: Location (distance from the shop), City, Size, Condition of concrete (new or old), any old epoxy coatings removal, cracks to repair etc. Your money is going towards a valuable product with less labor vs cheaper products and more labor hours.
A Flexmar NextGen all 100% polyaspartic coating system offers the greatest Floor Value for the owner. This Floor Value is the coating material cost that remains on the floor after the applicator leaves the premises. With the others there is a greater application cost and not the material left on the floor. For the assurance of a residential application to last for well over 20 years the owner can take comfort that a like-new appearance will remain over this length of time. This comes at just a small higher up-front cost but over the years the owner will not have to confront any yellowing and discoloration issues. An additional benefit to the homeowner is they are getting a commercial quality coating system for their residential garage floor.
Your Garage Cave leaves the value on the floor with 100% polyaspartic on the base and the top leaving our floors with 30% Thicker than our competitors.
Flexmar Polyaspartic flooring performance is the highest in the industry, eliminating the need for expensive maintenance regiments.
No waxing, polishing, buffing or resealing necessary! Clean with water and mild detergents for a long-lasting beautiful floor.
NONE! Clear polyaspartic topcoats do not block or filter UV rays of sunlight. They will pass through and attack the epoxy and polyurea resin binders of the coatings. This is proven in a 500 hr study conducted by epoxy and polyurea pigmented primer coatings do yellow from UV rays of sunlight. They yellow, fade and oxidize leading to micro cracking and weakening their adhesion to concrete.
Absolutely for your Garage Floor coating, patios, driveways, walkways and more.
A Flexmar floor you can walk on in a few hours; garage door stays 6-12 inches overnight. You are ready to move in the next morning!
The biggest misconception is that a Polyaspartic (Aliphatic) over a Polyurea/Epoxy (Aromatic) is going to make that basecoat UV stable. 2. Epoxy and Polyurea have strong fumes which lingers. 3. Epoxy coatings take longer to harden. 4. Epoxy and Polyurea are temporary solutions. Yellowing and discoloration requires replacing the floor and costly maintenance.
Hire Garage Cave because they only use FLEXMAR® floors for a true 100% polyaspartic. There are no hidden anything, no water barrier fees or extra costs, no recoat or resealing fees. No extra fees to store your belongings for several days because a true polyaspartic floor on base and top you can walk on in a few hours.
Your Garage Cave provides Value, Service and Quality to your home!
Yes. Flexmar has the highest-level solid content of a true Polyaspartic 93% which makes it thicker. There are hybrid polyaspartics what have been able to copy old school technology 2-1 ratio and a less than desirable number of solids.
This is important when learning the difference in the Abrasion and Wear Resistance and how long your floor will last. Overall, polyaspartics on the base and top coat are the ideal choice for anyone looking to add Value to your home.
YES, A true 100% Flexmar Polyaspartics in high humidity can be walked on in an hour. Areas like Arizona 2-3 hours. See the chart for epoxy times or other Hybrid Polyaspartics.
Absolutely NOT! Flexmar Next Gen Polyapsartics are 100% Aliphatic, UV stable and does not require additives to achieve a temporary fix. Polyurea and Epoxy are Aromatic and if used on the basecoat even with a polyaspartic over will turn Yellow. The chemist provided a video to back up our comparisons.
No Never, get it done right the first time with YGC and do not risk having to REDO your floors and that added expense.
A finished FLEXMAR color flake floor is bright, glossy, and has just a slight texture to it. And the floor will retain its appearance—without yellowing or fading due to age or exposure to fluorescent lighting or sunlight—for years to come, with no buffing, polishing, waxing, or re-sealing.
Clients call Your Garage Cave and have us REDO Garage Floors every day from failures of epoxy and polyurea.
Easy broom sweep, mop, or blow out, are the best care options. Unlike epoxy, a polyasparic floor will withstand power washing with no peeling. Dawn dish soap and water down simple green are the best supplies to clean a polyaspartic floor. Nothing harsh needed.
Our Top Rated Flexmar polyaspartic concrete coatings are virtually maintenance free. Our coatings do not allow liquids to penetrate, for example: oils, kerosene and gasoline. Paper towel clean up.
Polyaspartic technology is the newest of the three. A patent was issued to Bayer Material Science now Covestro in the early 1990’s. It was originally introduced into the transportation market to increase solids content in polyurethane coatings. Later it was introduced into the corrosion protection market on metal substrates to speed up the cure time.
Then, Jack Bracco with a small innovative start-up company, Flexmar Coatings, introduced the technology to the concrete floor market at the World of Concrete in year 2006 in Las Vegas. It was the world’s newest technology and was ideal for the flooring market because it could be applied in one day, cure quickly and still return to service that same day. We coined the term “1 Day Floor” installation. We could possibly break the epoxy paradigm. We were named a Most Innovative Product award the following year 2007.
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Absolutely great people and great service!
On time, professional, nice guys. Did a great job! Highly recommend them!
Garage floor surface is Flexmar with the new color Coyote. It looks amazing and will tolerate AZ heat!
Great work and professional service. The attention to detail is second to none. Would highly recommend it to anyone looking for Great work at an affordable price.
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Big thanks to Your Garage Cave for your professional and outstanding service. Floor is beautiful and crew cleaned up any debris. Four hours later I was able to walk on the floor and pulled my car in the next day. Highly recommend them 👏👏Bravo
I listed epoxy floor coating but their product far exceeds any epoxy coating on the market. Dave and Char are the best and we absolutely love our garage and patio floor coverings. Would highly recommend their business.
Great service. Char was very responsive and did a fantastic job on our garage floor. Kept all promises and at a fair price. Professionalism, Punctuality, Quality, Responsiveness, Value
Update: they have now installed garage racks for us, they are amazing! My neighbor and I both decided to contract YourGarageCave to coat our garage floors after interviewing too many contractors to count, boy are we glad we did. Not only are Char and Dave the best of the best…
They showed up on time. They were professional and clean – very happy and would recommend them to anyone. I love my new floor!!!
Char and Dave are an absolute delight to deal with. It’s nice to find people that still take pride in their work. My garage floor and overhead racks came out fantastic. I’m so happy I found the company and I love my new floor. Just a heads up their product…
Excellent service – on time and the quality of their work is outstanding. I was amazed that all their equipment had vacuums – very little dust. I would rate them a 10 Greg in sun city az
I was very pleased working with this company. I met Char (the owner) at the Home Show and she’s very personable and doesn’t talk over your head. The 3 guy crew started at 8:30 and was done by 1:30. They were very professional and cleaned up the area well. Highly…