Why ANVIL

Industrially tested solutions, for residential applications. These coatings were proved on floors that take a genuine beating — food plants, chemical processing, power generation, warehouse aisles under forklift traffic — and then packaged for someone doing their own garage over a weekend. That is the entire idea, and everything below is the evidence for it.

A garage floor kit is an easy thing to sell badly. Every one of them promises a showroom floor, and most of the promises are adjectives. This section takes the other approach: what the material is, who makes it, what it has been measured at, by which test method, and which questions are still open.

Who makes the coating

The coatings are made by Duromar, part of the Blome family — Blome International of O’Fallon, Missouri, building corrosion-resistant polymer coatings since 1975. The manufacturer’s own data sheet lists this exact build — an aggregate-broadcast topping system — for animal labs, pharmaceutical facilities, semi-conductor plants and automotive assembly plants, and as a heavy-duty topping for loading docks and forklift traffic aisles. None of that was written for a garage. It was not designed as a consumer product, and ANVIL did not ask for a consumer version of it.

That is the whole proposition. ANVIL is not a coatings company with an industrial-looking label on a consumer product. ANVIL is a kit built around an industrial product: the right quantity for your slab, the flake, the clear topcoat, and instructions written for one person in a garage over a weekend rather than for a crew with a shot blaster.

The numbers, before the adjectives

Those are the base coat figures, taken from the manufacturer’s own data sheet, each with the ASTM method that produced it. Technical data carries the complete table for all three layers, the coverage arithmetic and a list of what is still outstanding.

What the data sheet covers, and what it does not

The published industrial build broadcasts 20/40 mesh silica sand into the wet base coat until it will take no more. That produces an industrial non-slip floor, and it is the system the manufacturer specifies for plant floors. ANVIL broadcasts decorative vinyl flake into the same wet base coat by the same method, to the same refusal point. The method is theirs; only the medium is ours.

The mechanism is the same. The media is not. So everything on this site about the coating comes from the manufacturer’s document and is attributed to it, and everything about the flake layer is an ANVIL product decision. Where a claim depends on the flake, we say so and mark it unconfirmed rather than borrowing a number that was measured on something else.

The seven questions people actually ask

What it costs you, stated plainly

An industrial coating behaves like an industrial coating, and some of that is inconvenient.

• You prepare the slab. The primer sheet calls for abrasive blasting or mechanical abrasion to remove laitance, and the base coat sheet asks for a profile like 60–80 grit sandpaper. A coating over a sealed or power-troweled slab is a coating that peels, and no chemistry fixes that. What preparation involves.
• You cannot pause. Pot life is 20 minutes at 70°F, and shorter in a hot garage or a bigger batch. Once Part A and Part B are combined the clock is running, and the material hardens in the pail whether you are ready or not.
• It is slow into service. The base coat gives 10 hours to light foot traffic and 120 hours to full cure; the topcoat needs 5 days before a car goes back on it. A cold garage takes longer than that, not the same.
• Sales are final. These are sealed chemical products with a 12 months shelf life, and a returned pallet cannot be resold. So the useful thing we can do is spend the time before you order making sure the kit is the right one. Talk to somebody who has installed it.

ANVIL is a customer service organization that happens to sell flooring. That is not a line about being friendly. It is what has to be true when the product cannot come back.