PROGRESSIVE EPOXY POLYMERS, INC.

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We are the only technology based coating/epoxy/resin company that actively encourages your phone calls, not just during our East Coast work hours but also after/before hours, evening, weekends and even holidays. We're available when you are. We form a personal relationship with our customers and freely share technical information, how to-advice, product information and tips-and-tricks. Speak with a non-salesman technical professional with over 25 years of experience in the resin/coating/epoxy industry (no newbie staffer on the phone lines!). Floors, tables, boats, leaks, rot repair. We handle it all! We are an 'always available,' one-on-one, technical/scientific, coating company (watch our video). We are NOT one of those fluffy/slick mass sales firms the dominate the internet selling cheap third party (made in China???), low end epoxies and coatings with no real knowledge of what they are selling and quotas to sell to as many people as possible. 603-435-7199 (east coast time).

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EPOXY PAINT

Commercial Grade Epoxy Paint  / Coating Products

for Home Owners

                               

 

Epoxy Paint Resin for Use Around the Homes

Epoxy paint resins for DIY home projects - garage - basement - leak repair
 

Your Host and Tour Guide:

Paul Oman, MS, MBA - Progressive Epoxy Polymers, Inc. (floor epoxies, marine epoxies, underwater epoxies, repair epoxies)

Member: NACE (National Assoc. of Corrosion Engineers), SSPC (Soc. of Protective Coatings)

Board member: Friends of the Suncook River - 501(c)(3) non profit ----- Founder: Friday Night Paddlers .

"Professionals helping Professionals since 1994"

PROGRESSIVE EPOXY POLYMERS, INC.

Non-Commercial Concrete Preparation For Epoxy Paints / Coatings Homeowner Application Notes Epoxies are probably the toughest, must durable and chemical resistant floor coating available to the ordinary homeowner or industrial general contractor. As a result, epoxies are often applied over concrete floors in many industrial and commercial locations. Individuals sometimes will epoxy coat their garages, work shops, or basements. When applying an epoxy floor coating to concrete the standard traditional surface preparation is to shot blast the surface. Shot blasting units are machines that look like commercial lawn mowers. They ‘chip' the concrete surface with tiny steel balls, providing a clean, rough, ‘open' surface that usually ensures a successful coating job. Only large contractors can afford to own shot blast units. Most contractors hire subcontractors to perform the shot blast surface preparation. While this works with industrial projects, for individuals and homeowners shot blasting is not practical or economical. Below is a generally acceptable alternative for preparing new or existing concrete for epoxy top coating.   EPOXY PAINTS ON NEW CONCRETE New concrete has a top crust of weak sand and cement that must be removed prior to coating. If possible use a high pressure water blaster and/or a stiff brush/broom with plenty of water to remove this weak ‘crust'.   EPOXY PAINTS ON EXISTING CONCRETE If painted or coated, remove as much of the existing coating as possible by any means you can. Generally, well adhered coatings can remain in place providing a solvent-free epoxy is used to topcoat it. Using a solvent-based (VOC content greater than zero) epoxy could result in the solvents softening or peeling the otherwise well adhered bottom coating. Next, use a degreaser with hot water (and hopefully high pressure water) to remove any signs of grease or oil. Repeat three or four more times, even if it appears clean and degreased after the first or second cleaning. Now wash the surface with a detergent, brush/broom, and plenty of water. Note that if your concrete is outside, such as on a patio or sidewalk, nature has probably prepared the surface for you. Rarely are there oil stains on a sidewalk or patio - just nice, clean, weathered cement. The exception might be under your patio grill. MORE SURFACE PREPARATION FOR EPOXY PAINT At this point it is time to mildly etch the old or new concrete with Muriatic Acid. Muriatic Acid can be found at most hardware stores. Use 1 part acid to 3 parts water and a mop or broom to spread the liquid across the floor. Use plenty of the mixture - the idea is for the acid to ‘fizz' the cement and etch the surface. Use about 1 gallon per 100 square feet. Now rinse off with plenty of water. You do not want any residual acid in or on the concrete.   IS THE SURFACE READY FOR EPOXY PAINT? A quick and easy, albeit somewhat crude test of your surface preparation, is to pour a cup of water upon the surface. If it soaks in, the concrete is probably suitably prepared to coating, if the water just sits there, you may have serious adhesion problems, (i.e. peeling or blisters) with your topcoat. OPTIONAL SEALING At this point you have the option of sealing the concrete with a new class of sealers. Products such as Bio-Vee Seal (which we sell) will soak into the concrete, react with the matrix and form tiny crystals inside the void spaces near the surface. This reduces both permeability and porosity within the concrete. As the upward movement of moisture from the ground through the concrete can often cause problems with the adhesion of surface coating, a Bio-Vee treatment is a good ‘extra step.' Consider it also as a stand alone sealer and stain guard for driveways and sidewalks. Cost is about 20 cents per square foot. APPLYING THE EPOXY Commercial ‘epoxy floors' are generally a multi-layer system. There is a layer of epoxy, a layer of sand or colored quartz, and a top sealing coat of more epoxy. Homeowners generally get by with a single coat of epoxy and an optional scattering of ‘grit' to make the surface less slippery when wet. When using solvent-free epoxies, you do not add the grit to the epoxy, instead you roll down the epoxy, sprinkle the grit on top and then back-roll with the paint roller to ‘even the grit out' and thoroughly coat it with the epoxy. We recommend our standard grade Industrial Floor Epoxy. END RESULT Epoxies tend to quickly lose their shiny appearance and also yellow in direct sunlight. A shiny light blue is likely to quickly become a flat aqua-green. White turns to golden yellow. That is the nature of epoxies.....   We really appreciate you visiting PROGRESSIVE EPOXY POLYMERS, INC. and our web site: EPOXYPRODUCTS.COM.  Take advantage of the CONTACT links on this page to ask questions about our products and/or your projects. You can stay in touch with us via our NEWSLETTER (link on our contact page) which is emailed  every 6-8 weeks. Epoxy Only Web Google Search     #1) Google Everything Epoxy Searches #2) Google Marine Epoxies Searches #3)Google Floor Epoxy Searches    View our Progressive Epoxy Products, Inc. company video Contact Page   This current page is all about: EPOXY PAINT Epoxy Paint Resin for Use Around the Homes Epoxy paint resins for DIY home projects - garage - basement - leak repair WOW!  35% - 40% of all daily online or telephone orders are from existing  customers. That's an amazing 'REPEAT CUSTOMER" number. EPOXY-ONLY WEB SEARCH 603 - 435 - 7199 ANYTIME 24/7 FOR HELP OR ORDERS   USER COMMENTS Date: Fri, 13 Oct From: "W. ,Beth" <org> To: 'paul oman' <> Paul, About my basement leak problem. The leak was where the poured floor met the concrete block walls. I lived in the house for 9 1/2 years and all but about 3-6 months (during a drought time) there was a small area (about 2 foot square) of the basement floor that was wet. When there was a lot of rain or other ground moisture (like melting snow) the water would stream across the floor to the sump pump. I did the outside work of gutters and ground sloping but still I would get water. When I dried out the area using a combination of heat and fans I was able to see exactly where the water was coming from. Upon further investigation I determined there were other spots in the vertical mortar joints where they met the poured floor that were also damp. I used the XXX EPOXY all along that area going up the wall about 2 inches and on the floor about 2 inches. Some of the areas were wet when I applied it. I believe I applied the XXX EPOXY in mid May of 2000. There were some heavy rain times that normally would have caused the basement floor to be wet but the EPOXY held the moisture back. I stayed in the house for about 3 1/2 months after the repair was made with no signs of wetness. Pretty good if you consider that in 9 1/2 years I had only had a short period of dryness and that was when there was almost no outside moisture. I realize that there is still some underlying problem in that basement but short of the costly venture of either jack hammering up the basement floor or digging outside the house this was the perfect solution to my problem. Beth W. Our Floor Epoxy Recommendation - Unless you have very special problems to address, we recommend our Industrial Floor Epoxy over all other brands. It's solvent free, easy to use, and at about 40 cents per square foot, one of the best floor epoxy bargains anywhere. Colors: dark red (new visible yellowing), beige, and light gray! Visit our products page to learn more. Lots more on floors - CLICK HERE Related Links More on all kinds of leaks: CLICK HERE (leak.html) . More on basements: CLICK HERE (seal4u.html) . Still more on basement leaks: CLICK HERE (cellar4u.html) . Internal concrete sealer (Bio Vee Seal ™) CLICK HERE (vee4u.html) . Links to Products * Bio Vee Seal™ * ESP 155™ * Low V™ * pigment * Industrial Floor Epoxy™ * fiberglass cloth * Crack Coat Epoxy™       MARINE CATALOG HOME/DIY/COMMERCIAL CATALOG     Section One TWO PART MARINE EPOXIES- CLEAR EPOXIES basic no blush (tm) Section A EPOXY PAINTS corro coat FC 2100; NSP 120; water gard 300; coal tar ; CM 15; crack coat™ Section Two FILLERS THICKENERS ADDITIVES fumed silica; microsphere/balloons; poly fibers; copper; graphite; Teflon (tm); wood flour; EZ thick; rock flour   Section B FLOOR EPOXIES (regular and non-skid products), SEALERS, ACCESSORIES water bond (water based); solvent free industrial floor epoxy; bio vee seal; water based floor epoxy, floor epoxy with grit; walnut shell; ground white rubber grit Section Three THICKENED EPOXIES - EPOXY PUTTIES, ETC. wet/dry 700; splash zone; quick fix 2300, QR 2400 rubber epoxy Section C THICKENED EPOXIES - EPOXY PUTTIES, ETC. wet/dry 700; splash zone A-788, quick fix 2300; QR 2400 (tm) rubber epoxy Section Four TWO PART EPOXY PAINTS (barrier coats) corro coat FC 2100; water gard 300; CM 15; EZ Spray; epoxy primer; crack coat™ Section D CLEAR TWO PART EPOXIES low V epoxy; basic no blush; ESP 155; Bio-Clear 810 Section Five URETHANES AND NON-EPOXY COATINGS Aluthane (aluminum coating); LPU Marine Section E NON-EPOXY PAINTS SEALERS Aluthane moisture cured urethane; Acrylic Poly UV Plus and other 2 part polys ; Capt. Tolley's creeping crack sealer Section Six NON-SKID DECK COATINGS walnut shell; ground white rubber   Section F MIX-IN ADDITIVES fumed silica; fiber fill; micro balloons/micro-spheres; graphite; Teflon (tm); copper powder; wood flour; EZ thick, rock flour Section Seven MARINE REPAIR PRODUCTS pipe wrap; fiberglass tape (cloth); Capt. Tolley's Creeping Crack Cure   Section Eight MISC. MARINE PRODUCTS short nap rollers; TA 661 (solvent free epoxy clean-up); 1 inch foam brushes; 2 inch bristle brushes; tongue depressors HELP PAGE  INDEX One page summary/prices - marine catalog One page summary/prices -DIY/HOME catalog BUY FROM PRIMARY STOREFRONT BUY FROM PRIMARY STOREFRONT internet boat links page internet floor links page Internet DIY repair links page Call (603-435-7199) or EMAIL with questions /phone orders etc. about what you're doing. We try to earn your business one phone call at a time!       DISCLAIMER: The above comments are simply that, comments and ideas. The ability of these or other products to seal a basement or sump is not guaranteed as many factors beyond just the sealing product comes into play. Epoxy Only Web Google Search     #1) Google Everything Epoxy Searches #2) Google Marine Epoxies Searches #3)Google Floor Epoxy Searches    View our Progressive Epoxy Products, Inc. company video Contact Page Progressive Epoxy Polymers, Inc. www.epoxyproducts.com   disclaimers terms of web use legal stuff         site master greatthings4u gifts protagonist paul oman ground zero pittsfield/northwood NH     Epoxy Paint Resin for Use Around the Homes Epoxy paint resins for DIY home projects - garage - basement - leak repair   #### Navigation Bar frame replacement CLICK HERE mobile friendly key site links