SimironTopcoat
A clear coat that keeps its color in the sun.
Our house Fast Cure clear and Simiron Polyaspartic HS in fast, medium and slow cure, staged at the Tracy bench for Ripon garages, patios and shops. It is the layer that decides whether a floor still looks right after a few summers with the door rolled up.
Ripon summers are where a clear coat shows its age.
Ripon sits in orchard country along Highway 99, and from late spring onward the valley sun lands on everything. Plenty of garages here spend the summer with the door rolled up, for the breeze or because the work spills out onto the driveway. Covered patios catch the low light every afternoon. All of that is ultraviolet working on the top layer of your floor.
Plain epoxy clears amber in sunlight. It happens slowly, so nobody notices in the first month, and then one day the strip nearest the door is a different shade than the back wall. On a gray floor it reads as dirt that will not mop up. On a flake or metallic floor it quietly changes the color the customer picked.
A UV-stable polyaspartic holds its color in that same light. That is why it sits on top of nearly every garage and patio floor we help spec, and why a Ripon customer should ask for it by name. If the room is indoors with no windows and you would rather run an epoxy top, call and we will talk it through with you.
From the catalog
On the shelf for this job
Picking a cure speed for a valley afternoon.
The house clear comes in our Fast Cure line as a 1.5 gallon kit, and Simiron Polyaspartic HS sits on the same shelf for crews who already run it by habit. The Simiron pails come in fast, medium and slow cure, and on a summer job in Ripon that choice matters more than the label on the bucket.
Polyaspartics cure fast, and that speed is the reason people buy them: foot traffic on the floor the same or next day. It also means heat works against you. A warm slab and a hot afternoon both shrink the time you have to mix, pour and roll before the material starts to grab, and a clear that grabs early leaves lap marks you will look at for years.
That leaves two sensible plans. Start early while the slab is still cool from the night and run the fast cure, or pour later in the day and let the slow cure buy back working time. Either way, mix only what you can lay down inside the window. If this is your first polyaspartic job, call the bench before you open a kit.
Heat steals working time. Choose the cure speed for the afternoon you will really have.
Picking a cure speed for a valley afternoon.
The house clear comes in our Fast Cure line as a 1.5 gallon kit, and Simiron Polyaspartic HS sits on the same shelf for crews who already run it by habit. The Simiron pails come in fast, medium and slow cure, and on a summer job in Ripon that choice matters more than the label on the bucket.
Polyaspartics cure fast, and that speed is the reason people buy them: foot traffic on the floor the same or next day. It also means heat works against you. A warm slab and a hot afternoon both shrink the time you have to mix, pour and roll before the material starts to grab, and a clear that grabs early leaves lap marks you will look at for years.
That leaves two sensible plans. Start early while the slab is still cool from the night and run the fast cure, or pour later in the day and let the slow cure buy back working time. Either way, mix only what you can lay down inside the window. If this is your first polyaspartic job, call the bench before you open a kit.
Heat steals working time. Choose the cure speed for the afternoon you will really have.
Running a topcoat day when the valley is hot.
Keep the kits out of the heat
Material that rode around in a hot truck bed all afternoon starts with less pot life before you crack the lid. Pick up in the morning, or keep the order indoors until the floor is ready for it.
Put a hand on the slab
A garage that faced the afternoon sun holds heat in the concrete well into the evening. A warm slab cuts your window as much as warm air does, so check both before you settle on fast or slow cure.
Mix in smaller batches
Split the job into batches you can pour and roll in one pass. Two small mixes on a hot day go down cleaner than one big bucket that starts kicking before you reach the far wall.
Finish at the door
Plan the last pass so you end at the exit and never have to cross wet clear. Once you are out, keep the door down while it cures so dust and bugs stay off the surface.
Ask for the walk-on time
Foot traffic is typically same or next day and vehicles shortly after, though conditions decide it. Call with the forecast for pour day and we will give you real numbers for that floor.
What sits under the clear changes how much you need.
The classic stack is an epoxy body, a decorative layer, then the polyaspartic clear on top. In Ripon that middle layer is usually a flake broadcast in a garage, a quartz broadcast in a wash bay or around a pool, or a metallic pour in a showpiece room, and each one takes topcoat a little differently.
A 1.5 gallon kit tops roughly 250 to 400 square feet depending on the surface under it. A grouted quartz floor drinks more than a smooth metallic, so the same garage can need a different kit count depending on what is underneath. Recoat windows and prep still apply when the clear goes over epoxy, which is why we ask how many days sit between your coats.
Most decorative floors seal in one healthy coat, while a brutal room, like a shop that drags equipment across the floor every day, earns two. Gloss is the default finish, and the bench can tell you what is available in satin. Anywhere that gets hosed down should get the anti-slip additive, since any smooth clear can be slick when wet.
Count the kits off what sits underneath, never off the square footage alone.
Order the clear on the same ticket as the base.
The easiest mistake to avoid is a topcoat that shows up a week after the base, from a different supplier, with its own recoat window. Put the whole stack on one order and the layers are matched before anything leaves the bench.
Most Ripon floors that get this clear start somewhere else on our shelf. A flake garage gets its color from the decorative flake blend. A wash bay or a pool surround starts with a quartz broadcast. An older ag shop slab poured without a vapor retarder may need a moisture vapor barrier first. Every one of them gets opened up with the right diamond grinding segments before resin touches the concrete.
Send us the square footage, what is going down underneath, and the day you plan to pour. We will count the kits and stage the order for pickup or same-week delivery.
Order the clear on the same ticket as the base.
The easiest mistake to avoid is a topcoat that shows up a week after the base, from a different supplier, with its own recoat window. Put the whole stack on one order and the layers are matched before anything leaves the bench.
Most Ripon floors that get this clear start somewhere else on our shelf. A flake garage gets its color from the decorative flake blend. A wash bay or a pool surround starts with a quartz broadcast. An older ag shop slab poured without a vapor retarder may need a moisture vapor barrier first. Every one of them gets opened up with the right diamond grinding segments before resin touches the concrete.
Send us the square footage, what is going down underneath, and the day you plan to pour. We will count the kits and stage the order for pickup or same-week delivery.
Eighteen road miles from the bench to Ripon.
Ripon sits on Highway 99 at the Modesto end of the county, with the Stanislaus River along its south edge marking the line into Stanislaus County. At about 18 road miles from the Tracy bench, it is close enough that most crews grab their kits on the way to the job.
Kit detail lives on the site-wide UV-stable polyaspartic topcoat page. Everything else we ship this way starts at the Ripon supply page, the rest of the county is under San Joaquin County, and the full topcoat line is in the catalog. Dates and quantities go through the contact page.
Topcoat questions from Ripon crews.
Will a polyaspartic topcoat yellow on a Ripon garage floor?
This one is UV-stable, so it holds its color in sunlight where plain epoxy clears amber. That is why we put it on garages that live with the door open and on covered patios. Keep it as the top layer of the stack and the color you picked stays the color you see.
Should I use fast cure or slow cure in the summer?
It depends on when you pour. Early in the morning on a slab that cooled overnight, fast cure works well. On a hot afternoon, slow cure buys back working time before the material starts to grab. Tell us your start time and the temperatures and we will help you pick.
How soon can I walk or park on it?
Foot traffic is typically same or next day, with vehicles shortly after, conditions depending. Heat and slab temperature move those numbers in both directions, so call the bench with what you expect on pour day and we will give you honest timing for that specific floor.
How much topcoat does my floor need?
A 1.5 gallon kit tops roughly 250 to 400 square feet depending on the surface under it, and a grouted quartz floor drinks more than a smooth metallic. Send the measurements and what is going down underneath, and we will count the kits so you do not run short in the last corner.
Can it go over an epoxy and flake floor?
Yes. Epoxy body, decorative layer, polyaspartic clear is the classic stack, and it is how most flake garages get finished. Recoat windows and prep still apply between the epoxy and the clear, so give us your timeline and we will make sure the layers line up.
Can I pick the kits up in Tracy instead?
Yes. Local pickup at the Tracy bench is always open, and most Ripon orders also go out the same week. Call ahead and we will stage the kits so they are ready when you pull up, with data sheets and SDS if you want them.
A Tracy shop with valley roots.
We belong to the Lathrop Chamber of Commerce and sponsor Lathrop Little League and the Junior Spartans, because the families on those teams are our neighbors. Freight goes out nationwide, and every kit headed for Ripon still starts on the same bench, packed by people who have rolled this clear on real floors.
A Tracy shop with valley roots.
We belong to the Lathrop Chamber of Commerce and sponsor Lathrop Little League and the Junior Spartans, because the families on those teams are our neighbors. Freight goes out nationwide, and every kit headed for Ripon still starts on the same bench, packed by people who have rolled this clear on real floors.
Get in touch
Tell us what you're pouring.
Anything from one bucket to a standing wholesale account, pickup or freight, or a seat in training. A person who has poured this material reads every message.
- (209) 208-4656
- chris@exclusiveresinsupply.com
- 392 W Larch Rd, Suite 11, Tracy, CA 95304
Sealing a Ripon floor this season?
Call the owner with the square footage and your pour date, or look through the lines first and call once you have a stack in mind.
Need it installed?
Our sister company, Exclusive Resins, installs epoxy, flake and metallic floors across the Central Valley, out of the same Tracy building.