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Anti-corrosion
Industrial & floors
Curing agent
Concrete sealers
Residential
Problem solved
Coatings have always just stuck to concrete and eventually peeled. The reason is simple chemistry, and it points to the fix.
Epoxy, urethane and paint are organic plastics. Concrete is inorganic. The two chemistries cannot form a true chemical bond, so these coatings can only adhere, holding on through temporary surface stickiness. Moisture from below, UV, cleaning chemicals and the daily expansion and contraction of the slab all work to break that grip. Eventually the coating lifts, delaminates and peels, and the recoat cycle begins again.
Construction has used essentially the same coating technologies since the 1960s, and the market simply accepted that coatings peel and must be redone. To buy a little more time, installers shot blast the concrete so the coating has something to grip, but that makes the surface more porous and more prone to the next failure.
CeramycGuard is inorganic and silicate based, sharing chemistry with concrete itself. Instead of sitting on top, it cross links into the surface and becomes part of it, forming an alumina zirconia silicate composite similar to granite. It fills the pores to the nanometer and stays breathable to vapor, so underside moisture cannot lift it. A coating that has become the surface has nothing to peel away from.
Common questions
Epoxy is an organic plastic and concrete is inorganic, so the two cannot form a true chemical bond. Epoxy only adheres mechanically, through temporary surface stickiness. Moisture rising from below, UV, cleaning chemicals and thermal cycling break that adhesion, so the coating lifts, delaminates and peels, sometimes within months.
Adhesion is a coating sitting on top of the surface and holding on by weak surface forces. A chemical bond means the material cross links into the surface and becomes part of it. CeramycGuard is silicate based like concrete, so it bonds at a molecular level and turns the top layer into a granite like ceramic. It physically cannot peel the way an adhered coating does.
Installers shot blast or grind concrete to give an organic coating something to grip. That opens up the surface and makes it more porous, which lets in more water and contaminants and gives the next failure a head start. A chemically bonding treatment does not rely on a roughened profile to hold.
Failed organic coatings usually need to be removed so the ceramic can bond directly to the concrete. Our technical team will assess the existing surface and specify the right preparation and system for your project.
No. Because it chemically bonds into the concrete and stays breathable to water vapor, underside moisture cannot push it off. It will not peel, flake, chalk or delaminate the way epoxy and urethane do.
Talk to our technical team about the surface that keeps failing, and we will specify a ceramic system that bonds for good.