If you have had a franchise salesman in your kitchen, you have heard it: polyurea is 4x stronger, epoxy yellows, one day and you park on it. Some of that is chemistry, most of it is a sales script. Here is what each claim actually means - so you can read any bid, including ours.
None of these are lies, exactly. They are lab facts doing sales work they were never meant to do.
That number comes from a tensile test on a cured chip of resin in a lab. Floors do not fail by being stretched - they fail where the coating meets the concrete.
True for bare, bargain epoxy. It is why nobody serious leaves epoxy as the wear surface. Our floors are finished in polyaspartic - the same UV-stable chemistry family as polyurea.
Fast-cure resin is real. But a one-day job means prep, repair, moisture handling, broadcast, and top coat all compressed into hours - and thin coats are what cure that fast.
Read what it covers: defects in the resin itself. The manufacturer does not send a crew when a floor peels - and almost no floor fails because the chemical plant made a bad batch.
Polyurea, polyaspartic, and modern 100% solids epoxy are all professional-grade resins. Installed over properly ground, repaired, moisture-tested concrete, any of them outlives the sales pitch. Installed over a rushed afternoon of prep, all of them peel.
We build with a 100% solids epoxy base - thick, penetrating, bonded into ground concrete - under a UV-stable polyaspartic top coat, and we put our own lifetime workmanship warranty behind the install, next to the Leggari product warranty. Two backings: the manufacturer covers the resin, and the owner who installed your floor covers the work.
Ask these on every estimate, including ours. The answers tell you more than any brochure.
Ground moisture is the number one floor killer in Western Washington. If they do not meter the slab, they are guessing with your money.
Franchise crews rotate. Subcontractors disappear. Ask who is physically on your floor and whether the person quoting will ever see it again.
Get the document, not the word lifetime. Product-only warranties exclude the labor to fix anything.
Itemized, moisture-tested, flat number, both warranties in writing. Put it next to the one-day pitch and decide with the facts in front of you. Payment plans available - ask at your estimate.