Get Projects Completed Faster with the Highly Versatile Polyurea 5100
by Ray Gutoski - Sales Representative for Southern California
Flooring contractors are consistently challenged with completing their projects faster and with less disruption to the working environment. In some cases, a methyl methacrylate system could be specified to shorten the project window, but that can lead to issues with odor, safety and special handling of the material.
The better solution? APF’s Polyurea 5100. This two-component, 100% solids, low viscosity, aliphatic polyurea/polyaspartic hybrid is engineered with the latest technologies to provide a high-performance, no-odor, zero-VOC flooring solution.
Product Benefits
- It’s FAST: Poly 5100 is dry-to-touch in one hour and can be recoated in two hours while maintaining a pot life of 30 minutes.
- Easy to use: The 30-minute pot life ensures you will have plenty of working time. And since it’s low viscosity, it’s easier to handle than most polyurea/polyaspartic products offered by competitors. There’s no longer a reason for contractors to fear using polyurea/polyaspartic products.
- No VOCs: 0 grams per liter VOC content and no odor means you can use this product anywhere with complete confidence there won’t be any ill effect to the people or the environment you’re working in. It’s great for laboratory, healthcare, office and residential environments.
- Versatility: You can use Poly 5100 as a primer, base coat, receiver coat or topcoat in clear or with pigment packs available in all of our standard colors. This allows the contractor flexibility to replace epoxies or standard urethane coatings systems with Poly 5100 and substantially reduce labor costs.
- Performance: Poly 5100 is formulated with the industry’s most advanced technologies to ensure the greatest abrasion resistance, chemical resistance and UV stability on the market today. It exceeds the ASTM-tested physical properties of standard urethane products and increases any system’s lifecycle.
Product Applications
Poly 5100 can be used in any commercial, industrial or residential application where a seamless, resinous flooring system is required. It’s perfect for healthcare, food and beverage, institutional and military markets. More specifically:
- Moisture Remediation Systems: Poly 5100 is ideally used as a topcoat for our VaporSolve® Ultra System, providing a fast-turn installation and protection against any amount of moisture vapor, even on green concrete.
- Urethane Mortars: Poly 5100 can also be used as a sealer for our CastorCrete® SL-B and CastorCrete® RT-B systems, ensuring a complete zero-VOC, fast-turn industrial flooring solution with moisture protection up to 12 pounds.
- Standard Resinous Flooring System Flexibility: Poly 5100 can be used for each step of typical two or three-coat protective coating systems, decorative quartz or flake broadcast systems, and as a receiver and topcoat for any epoxy or urethane cement mortar system.
Personal Insights
In the past eight months, I have installed Poly 5100 with more than 40 flooring contractors who had reservations about using a polyurea/polyaspartic product. They believed it would be too difficult to use based on their history with similar products. I’m happy to say that we have had 100% satisfaction in transforming this perception. No matter what type of system or installation, Poly 5100 continues to meet demands.