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Get Certified in Epoxy Coatings Decorative coatings like epoxy are becoming particularly favored in residential and commercial settings for surfaces such as countertops and floors. Epoxy is an adhesive resin coating that creates a shiny, high gloss surface that offers a durable and resistant foundation. Let's also not forget about the myriad of colors that can be incorporated into your epoxy application is absolutely endless. An exquisite array of metallic pigments and decorative glitters are available to enhance your surfaces and turn them into dazzling works of art. Flooring contractors over the years have become highly interested in integrating epoxy services into their businesses. Even with all the popularity that revolves around epoxy resins, many individuals and contractors are still not properly educated on the product specifications or the appropriate application process. We're here to help. Xtreme Polishing Systems hosts a 5-day certification course fo

Polished Concrete Flooring for Garages A garage floor can be much more than a storage space, and throughout its lifetime it can undergo hot tires marks, grease and other nasty chemical spills. Your garage can still be a beautiful extension of your home or business with a nice-looking, natural and reliable floor. Polished concrete is dominating the flooring industry and is the perfect solution for your garages. Typically, decorative coatings are the popular choice among renovators and contractors for garage floor solutions, including decorative flake systems and industrial coatings . This is ultimately because of the captivating, glossy and attractive result that you get from them, however we must not forget about those principal people who do prefer a more natural and effortless flooring choice. Polished concrete has a magnificent, straightforward and pleasant appearance that is safe to walk on and extremely affordable. Polishing your concrete floors can be a bit of

Getting Creative With Your Concrete Driveways Often overlooked and typically underestimated, concrete has included an outstanding array of decorative options for driveways, restaurants and institutes. Decorative concrete is one of the most economical and reasonable ways to spruce up your home or workplace entrance. Especially favored by commercial establishments such as casinos, hotels, and malls, decorative concrete has also become a very attractive option for residential applications. Your concrete surfaces can be made to be aesthetically pleasing, unique and completely eye-catching works of art. A driveway is one of the first things that guests will see when visiting your home. The quality of the products and supplies that are incorporated into the project will be the ultimate determination of how fantastic your driveways finished look is and the many years it will hold up. Xtreme Polishing Systems has a multitude of unique and reliable decorative solutions for making y

Non-Slip Floor Coatings If you are considering using epoxy resin coatings on your concrete floors, you may be concerned about the potential chance of slipping and falling when the surface gets wet. Nobody wants an unsafe floor in their homes and businesses, however if you are using epoxy coatings there are solutions to prevent slips and falls. How Does A Non-Slip Coating Work? Since epoxy resin coatings are non-porous, the floor cures as a completely smooth surface that is similar to a sheet of ice. To create traction, there is a special material that can be dispersed directly into the coating mixture called a Grip Traction Additive . This special material is commonly used to improve traction coefficients and will dramatically increase the durability and abrasion resistance properties. You can also choose another coating system like a polyaspartic , urethane , or polyurea application which typically incorporates flakes , chips and quartz , creating an extremely slip resist

What Are Polyaspartic Coatings? When several facilities require advanced top coat protection for their floor, counter, bar and tabletop surfaces, they typically struggle to find the proper and most reliable protective coating to meet meet all of their requirements. This reliable top coat was developed over 20 years ago and has become more popular to date. Polyaspartic coatings are an aliphatic polyurea that's granted the ability to protect and guard surfaces from damages like constant automobile traffic, foot traffic, chemicals and spills and other forms of wear and tear. High Resistance Protection Polyaspartic floor coatings  are capable of withstanding all types of stains, punctures, impacts, chemical spills, and direct contact with high temperature when comparing with other coatings. This protective flooring system will not need expensive and regular waxing in the long run or any other kind of resurfacing treatment options. In order to bring the coating back to

Hand Grinders for Surface Preparation Hand grinders are a fast solution for smoothing out inconsistencies on vertical and horizontal concrete surfaces. Hand grinders are truly a one of a kind tool, especially for concrete edge work and smaller scale flooring projects. Contractors and DIY'ers do not always face large-scale projects so they need to be equipped with a tool that is powerful enough, yet still easy to maneuver into smaller spaces. Typically, large floor grinders and floor polishers are used to prepare the surface of a concrete floor. However, investing in a robust tool like a hand-held grinder will save you time, money and haver your surface looking beautiful. Using a diamond impregnated grinding cup wheel or grinding disc, hand grinders are able to adequately profile a concrete surface. Being that hand grinders are a much smaller piece of tooling makes hand grinders ideal for concrete countertops and tabletops, residential floors, small garages, ha

How To Protect Your Concrete Floors Concrete is designed for any type of environment and offers an extensive list of advantages including being a cost effective solution for flooring and having extreme durability and strength. Protecting your concrete surface is vital in keeping your concrete floors safe from severe damage overtime. Our experts at Xtreme understand that everyone has different preferences so we made sure to have a multitude protective coatings available for your concrete floor surfaces. Concrete Sealers Concrete sealers are one of the simplest of the many techniques when protecting and restoring your concrete floor. Concrete sealers protect your floors from heavy foot traffic and chemical spills. Epoxy Coatings An epoxy coating is an industrial-grade protective coating that is applied over your concrete floors once the concrete surface has been ground with a concrete floor grinder . Epoxy is an adhesive material that bonds to the concre