Project: High Durability, Easy Clean Floor Coating
Client: San Francisco Children’s Doseum
Area: 40,000 Square Feet
Location: San Antonio, TX
Date: 2014 – Present
Description: The San Antonio Children’s Museum, called the Doseum due to its interactive nature, needed to protect the new polished concrete floors from two primary destructive elements: margarita / red wine drinking donors during fundraising campaigns and creatively destructive children.
System: Quick Seal & Enhance with T2 MCM Top Coat
Value Delivered: Over 2,000,000 people have walked through the front doors and over the coated floors. It has been 7 years since these coatings went down. The floors look great and have no need to recoat. Typical floor coatings would last 3-5 years in this type of environment. At $5/square foot to strip and reapply a traditional coating. Using Nukote Sol Gels have saved 2 reapplication cycles, each of which would cost $200,000. Total Current Savings from using Nukote Sol Gel = $400,000.
The Pearl Apartments were newly built apartments that were about to release their units for leasing. New build move-ins are the most aggressive wear that an apartment will see during its lifetime, as there is a much higher concentration of move-ins all happening at the same time.
Airstream requires a sprayable, thin film, anti-corrosion, easy to clean clear coat for polished aluminum parts. The solution also needed to be able to bond directly to polished aluminum without any substrate profile, and without disturbing the polished look.