Luxury vinyl tile has become one of the most widely installed commercial flooring categories in the world. Each year, hundreds of millions to billions of square feet of LVT and similar resilient flooring products are manufactured and installed across healthcare, education, retail, corporate, and public environments.

Nearly all of this flooring enters the market with a factory-applied, UV-cured urethane coating. These coatings are designed to provide durability, abrasion resistance, and initial protection during early use.

From a manufacturing standpoint, this approach makes sense. From a long-term facility maintenance standpoint, experience in the field has shown that durability alone does not resolve how LVT floors actually age, wear, and look over time.

The issue is not that factory-applied urethane fails. The issue is that once appearance declines, there is no practical, repeatable way to refresh or restore that urethane in the field.

This gap has become one of the most significant and least addressed challenges in modern LVT floor care.

What Really Matters in Modern Floor Protection

Questions about PFAS are becoming more common in floor care conversations. Sometimes they come from procurement teams. Sometimes from sustainability groups. Sometimes, from leadership simply asking, “Is this something we need to be thinking about?”

For most facilities, the goal is not to chase trends or chemical terminology. The goal is to understand whether PFAS-free floor care products change how floors are protected, maintained, and managed over time.

This blog explains what PFAS-free means in the context of floor care, why it matters operationally, and how modern, non-stripping floor protection systems fit into the discussion.

Understanding 21st Century Floor Care and Advanced Floor Protection

In today’s commercial environments, floors are expected to do a lot of heavy lifting. Constant foot and cart traffic, often with 24/7 demands, tighter maintenance windows, and a lack of floor care labor have made traditional floor care and protection methods/practices harder to sustain.

Choosing the right floor care treatment is no longer just about adding stripping and applying new applications of a floor finish/wax.. It is about maintaining appearance, extending floor life, and simplifying ongoing care with less floor care labor.

NeverStrip Micron Sealers represent a 21st Century Floor Care technology and approach designed to protect all, non-carpet flooring surfaces while eliminating the need for stripping. But what exactly are Micron Sealers, how do they work, and why are more facilities moving in this direction?

In this blog, we’ll cover:

• What Micron Sealers are

• How they differ from traditional impregnators, floor finishes and coatings

• Why durable and refreshable protection matters today

When evaluating modern floor protection options, one of the most common questions facilities ask is how Micron Sealers compare with traditional floor coatings. At a glance, both are designed to protect floors and maintain appearance, but how they work and what they require over time are fundamentally different.

Understanding this difference is critical for facilities trying to reduce maintenance disruption, manage labor shortages, and extend the life of their flooring without relying on outdated strip-and-recoat cycles.

This blog breaks down how Micron Sealers differ from traditional coatings and why those differences matter in real-world environments.

How Traditional Floor Coatings Work

Traditional floor coatings and finishes protect floors by building thickness on the surface. Each application adds another layer, which can initially improve appearance and provide short-term protection.

Over time, however, these layers accumulate.

As the buildup increases:

• Floors lose clarity and uniformity

• Scratches and wear become more visible within the coating itself

• Maintenance becomes more complex

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Traditional floor “wax” is no longer the best way to protect the floors in your property. You need to find a more advanced floor coating solution that can prevent damage to your floors, keep your maintenance costs down, and improve the appearance of your building. Read on to learn more about how to find the best floor coating for your needs, and get in touch with Neverstrip® Floor Coatings today!

NeverStrip Floor Coatings manufactures floor coatings with a difference. Our coatings are used in all sorts of different environments — from commercial and industrial spaces to residential homes. Our products are designed to lower long-term floor care costs, enhance your floors’ appearance, and also often to improve floor traction. Read on to learn more about the NeverStrip difference, or contact us today to get a free quote on new floor coatings!

Ceramic and porcelain floors are often considered low-maintenance, but real-world use tells a different story. This article breaks down a common industry myth about sealing these surfaces and explains how modern NeverStrip coating and Micron Sealer systems are used to improve traction, simplify cleaning, and extend floor life in commercial environments.

NeverStrip Vinyl Seal in Grocery Store Versus Wax

NeverStrip Vinyl Seal replaces conventional floor finish or wax on VCT flooring at an Iowa grocery store.

Vinyl Seal benefits versus wax include:

– Much more rapid dry times (5-minutes versus 20-40 minutes for wax)

– Less burnishing frequency, we have seen 70% reduction of burnishing

– Eliminate ongoing stripping, no need to strip but easy to do

– Less scrub and recoats

– Superior coverage per gallon of product

– Better protection against scratching, scuffing and staining

– Less life cycle cost per sq. foot

NeverStrip Vinyl Seal is designed for resilient flooring such as VCT, LVT and rubber. It is an outstanding choice to replace wax or conventional floor finish.

Vinyl Seal is part of the NeverStrip family of Micron Coatings. These coatings are super thin and are inorganic based. Wax is made from oil. Vinyl Seal is not. An example of inorganic is minerals, such as granite or marble.

Vinyl Seal can be burnished with any speed machine and will benefit from essentially all burnishing pads including diamond encrusted pads at 1,600, or above grit.

BMW Janitorial in southeast Iowa is using NeverStrip Vinyl Seal to produce “Big City” benefits for its grocery store clients.

Brian M. Warning, said: “I have been using traditional stripping and waxing procedures for over 10 years. NeverStrip Vinyl Seal is a game changer. As you strip a floor for the last time and apply Vinyl Seal, you can fully appreciate how this changes floor maintenance, Forever!”

Why Replace Wax with NeverStrip Vinyl Seal?

Improved Appearance: every day, week and month

Reduced Interference: for customers, employees and management

Lower Costs: labor, equipment, pads, chemicals and strippers