Flortex Professional Garage Floor Paint is the best gloss finish top coat for car and commercial garages and workshop floors.
It is a hard wearing high build 100% solids twin pack epoxy resin paint, that has incredible strength, both by way of high wear and chemical resistance.
- Extremely heavy-duty two part epoxy floor paint for garage floors and workshop floors
- Long-lasting 100% solids, high build epoxy garage floor paint
- Solvent free, non-toxic and non-taint epoxy paint
- Abrasion, chemical and impact resistant garage floor paint
- Suitable for heavy traffic and all concrete garage floors
- Impervious and easy clean finish
- Full range of Line Marking Paints for MOT areas, to ensure compliance with all VOSA requirements
- Gloss finish
- Available in a variety of colours including light grey, mid blue, tile red and many more
Flortex® Professional is a non-toxic two part 100% solids virtually solvent-free epoxy floor coating incorporating quality high build fillers, providing a totally impervious coloured gloss finish. Its pure epoxy high build formulation makes Flortex Professional one of the most durable coatings available, with excellent abrasion and chemical resistance.
Special Formulations available include Extra Fast Hardeners (XFH), extra chemical resistance, low temperature formulations. Please contact Polycote technical helpline.
Typical Uses
Being virtually solvent-free and non-toxic, Flortex® Professional is ideal for use in medical, animal or food environments, and offers good chemical resistance. Typical uses include warehouses, factories, showrooms, workshops, storage and packing areas.
Suitable Substrates
Following application of the appropriate primer, Flortex® Professional may be applied to old and new concrete, and polymer modified cementitous screeds.
Colour
Flortex® Professional is available in a selection of 14 stock colours, or in a large range of BS4800 and RAL specifications (subject to minimum quantity).
Packaging
Flortex® Professional is supplied in pre-measured quantities as a two part 7.5kg or 15kg unit, comprising a coloured epoxy resin blend Part ‘A’ and hardener Part ‘B’.
Pot life (once mixed): 20 mins @ 20°C. High ambient temperatures will reduce pot life.
Application temperature: 10°C – 25°C. To minimise the risk of ‘blooming’ caused by condensation, maintain the temperature above the uncured floor to at least 3°C above the dew point for at least 48 hours after application.
Coverage:
Per 15kg drum: 30 – 50m²
Per 7.5kg unit: 15 – 20m²
Cure time @ 20°C: Approx. 24 hours (light wheeled traffic)
Heavy Traffic @ 20°C: 48 hours
Re-coat (if required): 12 – 48 hours
Full chemical resistance: 7 days
Number of parts supplied: 2 (Part A / Part B)
To ensure a good intercoat chemical bond, Flortex Professional should be applied within 36 hours of priming and/or initial coating. If this interval is exceeded, abrade the first coat to ensure intercoat adhesion.
The floor should be protected from contact with water for at least 7 days.
Please consult the Flortex Professional technical data sheet for full technical product data.
Primer required:
(Please note, this is not definitive but simply mentioned as a guide)
WD Primer: The most popular primer for almost all substrates including concrete, stone, ceramic and quarry tiles, brick, stone, wood, terrazzo, etc.
DPM Primer: For areas suffering with rising damp
OT Primer: For oil and chemical contaminated substrates
EP Primer: Suitable for almost all substrates but specifically for porous and unstable surfaces where excellent penetration is needed to stabilise and strengthen the substrate.
Surface Preparation
Concrete & Polymer Modified Sand/Cement Screeds:
For substrates in contact with the ground, a damp proof membrane must be incorporated in accordance with CP 102 or for basement floors, BS 8102. The base should have a relative humidity at the surface of no more than 75% when measured according to BS 8203.
After preparing the surface, the substrate must have a reading of 25 or above when tested using a rebound hammer in accordance with BS EN 12504-2 type N and pull-off strengths in excess of 1.5N/mm² when tested in accordance with BS EN 13892-8.
Fine concrete screeds should be constructed in accordance with BS 8204-1 and should not contain any water repellent admixtures. Unmodified sand cement screeds or those based on calcium sulphate are not suitable.
Substrates must be clean, dry and free of surface laitance and contaminants such as oil, grease, dirt and surface treatments. A loss of adhesion and failure in the coating can occur due to poor preparation.
Vacuum-assisted shotblasting or grinding are the recommended methods for preparing the substrate.
Prior to application of Flortex® Professional a suitable Polycote primer should be applied, depending on the type and condition of the surface.
Mixing
All materials should be stored between 15°C and 25°C for a minimum of 8 hours before use.
Having fully prepared the substrate, stir the individual components before mixing together. As pigment may ‘sink’, ensure that the mixing is very thorough and from the bottom of the container.
Add the Hardener (Part B) to the coloured Resin (Part A) and thoroughly mix on a slow speed setting for 3-4 minutes.
Ensure thorough mixing as an unmixed product will result in a poor or non-cure situation. For best results use a heavy-duty slow speed drill with a mixing paddle.
Scrape the sides and bottom of the mixing vessel with a spatula several times as any unmixed material will result in uncured patches in the final finish.
Flortex Professional may be applied with a medium pile simulated sheepskin roller, working well into the surface, but do not exceed the coverage rate. Edges and difficult to reach areas can be applied by brush.
Flortex® Professional is normally applied between 0.3kg to 0.5kg per 1m2. When the quantity of resin used exceeds 0.5kg/m2, air bubbles may become trapped within the coating. These are removed using a Polycote Spiked Roller. This must be carried out immediately after application of the resin BEFORE CURING TAKES PLACE. Spiked shoes should be worn to avoid disturbing the wet coating.
To achieve an anti-slip finish – gradually sprinkle Kiln Dried Aggregate onto the WET resin at a rate of 2-3kg/m2, this will need to be rolled immediately once scattered onto the coating. The quantity of aggregate required will depend on the thickness of the initial coating.
If 2 coat have been specified, please note spiked rolling is unnecessary for the first coat when using aggregate. Allow first coat to fully cure (preferably 24 hours) before removing all excess aggregate.
Please note: White, Yellow and Safety Red will usually require 2 coats. The thickness of this coat may be varied depending on the finish required but should be significantly less than the first coat
