The paperwork
What does a floor coating warranty cover?
A floor coating warranty is usually written against the coating letting go of the concrete, and it is usually not written against the concrete itself moving.
The short version
- Clear View Surface Solutions gives you a 15-year written warranty on the Ultimate and Apex tiers.
- The common covered failures are the coating separating from the slab, blistering, and the system coming apart between coats.
- The common exclusions are slab movement, damage from something spilled or dropped, and cleaning with something the label rules out.
- Ask whether it transfers if you sell the house, and ask to read it before the work starts.
What these documents are usually written against
The failure a coating warranty is built around is delamination, which is the coating letting go of the concrete underneath it. That is the failure the installer controls, because it is decided almost entirely by the prep and by whether the slab was dry enough to coat. Blistering and the layers of the system separating from each other sit in the same group.
Clear View Surface Solutions gives you a 15-year written warranty on the Ultimate and Apex tiers, and the document itself is the thing that says what is in and what is out. A sentence on a website is a summary of it and never a substitute for reading it.
What they usually do not cover
The slab moving is the big one. If a footing settles, a slab heaves, or a crack opens because the ground under the concrete moved, the coating on top of it goes with it, and no coating is written to hold a floor together. That is a concrete problem and it gets looked at as one.
The rest are damage rather than failure. Something dropped, something spilled and left, a hot tool set down on it, steel tracks dragged across it, or a cleaner the label rules out. Ordinary use is not in that list, and ordinary use in this part of the country includes snow, road salt and a wet vehicle parked on it all winter.
What to ask before you sign anything
Ask who stands behind it, ask whether it moves to the next owner if you sell, and ask what happens on a claim: who comes out, who decides, and whether a repair means a patch or a section recoated.
Then read it. A warranty is worth what its exclusions leave, and the exclusions are where the reading is.