Commercial Systems

ANVIL’s garage kit is an industrial coating in a smaller box. Anvil Coat-AE is a 100% solids pigmented coating, made by Duromar and sold for plant floors and heavy-duty industrial toppings long before anyone put it in a garage. Commercial work is not a stretch for this product. It is where it came from.

What the coating is

These are the manufacturer’s published typical properties, each with the test method beside it where the sheet gives one.

100% solids means the film you put down is the film you keep. Nothing evaporates out of it, so thickness is a decision rather than an outcome, and coverage follows arithmetic: divide the target thickness in mils into 1604 to get square feet per gallon. At 20 mils that is 80 square feet per gallon, before the overage a real slab costs you. The data sheet is explicit that coverage moves with the condition of the substrate and with the applicator’s ability to hold a consistent thickness, which is exactly why the buffer exists.

Where this coating fits

This is the coating specified where a floor takes physical abuse and still has to be cleanable — loading docks, forklift aisles, food and pharmaceutical plants.

• Workshops and service bays, where the floor takes mechanical impact and hydrocarbon exposure.
• Plant rooms and mechanical rooms.
• Warehouse and light industrial floors.
• Food and beverage production, and the wash-down areas around it.
• Floors that get washed rather than swept.

It is not the answer to everything, and the places it is wrong are worth saying out loud. The cured film is rigid — Shore D 72 — so it wants a sound slab underneath it rather than one that is moving. It is mixed and placed in 20 minutes batches at 70°F, which sets the pace of a large pour and the size of the crew. And it is 5 days before the floor goes back into full service. If the real constraint is a shift that ends at six and a line that runs at seven, a faster chemistry is the honest answer and we will tell you so.

FPO. Resistance to a named chemical at a named concentration is not published on this page, because the chemical resistance chart has not been checked against the shipping product. Ask, and we will get the answer from Duromar rather than infer one.

The broadcast layer

The manufacturer’s specified system primes the slab, broadcasts 20/40 mesh silica sand into the wet base coat until it will take no more, then goes back over it with 12 mil nominal of clear topcoat by squeegee and backroll. That is the build the numbers above belong to, and on a working floor it is usually the right one: the broadcast is there for texture and film build, not for looks.

ANVIL’s garage kit puts decorative vinyl flake where that sand goes, broadcast by the same method. For commercial work we will quote either. Flake is a color decision — it hides dust, and it makes a future repair far less visible — and where a floor has to look finished as well as survive, it earns its place.

FPO. The flake build is ANVIL’s specification. The data sheet documents the sand system, so the strength, hardness and cure figures above describe the coating and are not claims about a flake floor. Charlie to confirm what, if anything, the flake layer changes.

Commercial floors are specified, not bought

A garage is a known quantity: a rectangle, a car, a domestic slab. A commercial floor is not. Thickness, primer, broadcast and topcoat all move depending on what happens on the slab, and the quantity and the price move with them. We do not publish a commercial price list, because a number on a page would be a guess wearing the clothes of a quote.

Preparation is decided the same way. The data sheet calls for abrasive blasting, shot blasting, grinding or in some cases acid etching, and says to check with the manufacturer for the specific recommendation. On a commercial slab that check is part of the specification rather than a step you look up afterwards. What preparation involves covers the general case.

What to tell us

The more of this you have to hand, the closer the first answer will be to the last one.

• Square footage, and the shape. Bays, aisles, drains, thresholds, and whether coving is wanted at the walls.
• What happens on the floor. Foot traffic, pallet trucks, forklifts, racking legs, dropped tools, standing loads.
• Chemical exposure, named. “Solvents” is not enough. Which ones, at what concentration, how often, and whether it is a splash that gets wiped up or something that stands.
• Wet or dry. Whether the floor is hosed, washed or steam cleaned, and whether it has to fall to a drain.
• The slab. Age, condition, cracks, any existing coating, and whether a moisture test has been done.
• The downtime window. How long the area can be out of service, and whether it can be sectioned so the work runs in phases.
• Temperature. Whether the space is heated, and what it sits at overnight. The coating is stored between 50–110°F, and applied between 55°F and above — the primer sets the floor.
• Timeline, and who is applying it. Your own maintenance crew, a contractor you already use, or a recommendation from us.

Send that over and you will get a system and a quantity back, with the assumptions written down beside them so you can argue with the ones that are wrong.

Request project pricing, or talk to someone who has installed it.