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to reduce maintenance disruption, manage labor shortages, and extend the life of their flooring without relying on outdated strip-and-recoat cycles.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

NeverStrip Floor Coatings has been approached multiple times in the past weeks by separate medical facilities regarding the inadequacies of conventional acrylic, cross-linked floor finish or wax. These facilities were both looking for floor care solutions to better protect their floors and for their floor finishes to better resist disinfectants and alcohol hand-sanitizers. The surgical center and medical center both were introduced to NeverStrip Authorized Dealers, who addressed the needs using NeverStrip Gloss™ and NeverStrip Satin™ high performance urethane coatings.

A Northern California Surgical Center contacted NeverStrip. The Facility Director said, “they must be doing something different with disinfectant cleaners because they are destroying our wax.” He said, “we need a better solution that will hold up against the disinfectant cleaner without increasing the time, labor and materials needed to maintain their floors.” He also said, “we want shiny floors, which will not require burnishing and stripping.”

Low cost tile grout restoration is achieve-able with NeverStrip Tile and NeverStrip Color Sealer™. This solution is a fast, inexpensive way to make an old tile and grout floor (porcelain, ceramic and brick) look new and significantly easier to maintain.

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This System can be successfully used in any commercial environment with tile and grout flooring in restrooms, lobbies, locker rooms, showers, etc.

Sealing Ceramic

Summit Custom Coatings, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada has been sealing ceramic with multiple applications of NeverStrip Tile Seal on ceramic and/or porcelain flooring of public pool decks during the past two years. These facilities are busy public recreation centers with hundreds of thousands of annual guests.