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Identification & Functionality
- Product Type
- Technologies
- Product Families
Features & Benefits
- Labeling Claims
- Ready-to-Use Product Features
- Advantages
- Tough enough for foot or vehicular traffic
- USDA approved and VOC compliant
- Improved esthetic image in any environment
- Camouflages many wear and scuff marks, common to most solid color coating surfaces
- Good resistance to many common chemicals
- Self-priming base coat
- May be factory or field pigmented
- Limitations
- Limited range of application temperatures
- DecoWear™ minimum substrate application temperature - 55°F
- Not recommended in areas of harsh chemical usage
- DecoWear™ may discolor if exposed to sunlight or other UV sources
- DecoWear™ may water spot if exposed to moisture prior to full cure
- Allow to cure 7 days before chemical cleaning
- Product Highlights
- 745 DecoWear™ may be applied at temperatures down to 130 C (550 F). 745 DecoWear™ is USDA approved, meets VOC guidelines and has no offensive odors during installation.
- DecoFlake and DecoQuartz are decorative floor systems, combining a 100% solids pigmented or non-pigmented base coat, decorative colored acrylic flakes or colored quartz granules, and a clear epoxy or polyurea protective topcoat. The seamless systems are impervious to most common chemicals, provide durable floor surfaces that require minimum maintenance and are an ideal alternative to vinyl tile or standard solid color epoxy coatings.
Applications & Uses
- Markets
- Applications
- Application
- DecoFlake and DecoQuartz are excellent for interior and exterior applications (with the appropriate UV color-stable topcoat) or where moderate traffic can be anticipated. Both may be installed with a variety of slip-resistant textures.
- DecoFlake can be installed as a random flake (light broadcast) or as a full flake (broadcast to rejection) system.
Degrees Recoat Time 77°F 5-7 hrs. 60°F 10-13 hrs. The above table assumes substrate, ambient and material temperatures are equal and material is applied at 20 mils in thickness.
- Both random flake, full flake and quartz systems may be top coated with a variety of Thermal- Chem clear topcoat materials depending upon specific performance criteria and customer requirements.
- Typically random flake systems are coated with 1057 DecoFinish E57, or 1061 ArmorFinish E-81 urethane and full flake and quartz systems are coated with 748 DecoTop Clear, 707 DecoTop Clear Plus 3.0 (Thermal- Chem’s best epoxy clear coats) or 1062 DecoFinish P81 (polyurea) where UV resistance is critical.
- Product Application
All decorative flooring systems can be installed over Thermal-Chem’s VaporGard Product #211 coating where hydrostatic and vapor transmissions could pose a potential hazard and DecoWear™ is compatible with any of the Thermal-Chem companion repair products (refer to catalog). Refer to the appropriate Thermal-Chem System Installation Guide.
- Uses
Decorative Flooring Systems are excellent for use in various commercial applications as well as in many industrial environments.
- Automobile customer service and repair areas
- Light manufacturing facilities
- Shower and locker room facilities
- Laboratory floors
- Commercial kitchens and food processing
- Warehouse aisles
- Pharmaceutical plants
- Residential garage and basement floors
- Correctional facilities
- Hospitals – both human and animal
Wherever the following flooring properties are required:
- Slip-resistant surface texture
- Increased ease of maintenance
- Good abrasion resistance
- A durable and sanitary installation
- An inexpensive and decorative surface
- Areas where minimum downtime is required
Properties
- Color
- Physical Properties
| Value | Units | Test Method / Conditions | |
| Hardness | 76 - 82 | Shore D | ASTM D2240 |
| Bond Strength (100% con. failure) | max. 350 | — | ACI 503 |
| Impact Resistance | 160.0 | in./lbs | ASTM D2794 |
| Abrasion Resistance | 38 - 42 | mg. | ASTM D1044 |
| Tabor Abrasion (CS-17 Wheel 1000 gms. Load 1000 cycles) | loss | — | — |
| Viscosity (77°F) | 500 - 700 | cps | — |
| Viscosity (60°F) | 1500 - 1800 | cps | — |
| Compressive Strength (7 Day Cure Aggregate Filled) | 7800.0 | psi | ASTM D695 |
| Flexural Strength | 4500.0 | psi | — |
| Tensile Elongation | 5.8 | % | ASTM D638 |
| Tensile Strength | 8940.0 | — | — |
| Flammability | Self extinguishing over concrete | — | — |
| Freeze Thaw | 300 | Cycles | — |
Regulatory & Compliance
- Certifications & Compliance
Safety & Health
- Product Handling
Warning : For professional use only. Avoid contact of uncured material with skin and eyes. Contact with skin may result in irritation. Wash skin with soap and water. If contact with eyes should occur, flush with water for 15 minutes and seek immediate medical attention.
Packaging & Availability
- Color and Textures
- Unlimited colored quartz and flake combinations
- Ten (10) pigmented tint colors
- Thirty (30) available flake colors
- Quartz granules available in twelve (12) colors
- Various slip-resistant texture options available with clear topcoat
- Colored acrylic flakes and colored quartz granules are available in premixed color blends or a wide range of standard colors for unlimited color combinations to suit virtually any color scheme.