01What is a polyaspartic coating?+
Polyaspartic is a two-component, fast-curing protective coating with a polyurea backbone. It cures faster than epoxy, stays UV-stable (no yellowing or chalking under sunlight), and finishes at high gloss. It's most often used as a topcoat over epoxy on garage floors, showrooms, and commercial concrete. Resin Source stocks two polyaspartic kits today: RS Poly (standard cure, RS-POLY-90A + RS-POLY-90B) and RS Poly Fast (RS-POLY-90AF + RS-POLY-90BF).
02Epoxy vs. polyaspartic — what's the actual difference?+
Epoxy is the workhorse base coat — it bonds hard to concrete and builds film thickness cheaply, but it yellows under UV. Polyaspartic is the modern topcoat — UV-stable, faster-curing, glossier, more chemical-resistant. The standard residential garage system is epoxy on the bottom, polyaspartic on top. We have a 6-minute primer on the difference at /field-notes/epoxy-polyaspartic-polyurea-difference.
03Are you a distributor or do you install floors yourselves?+
Resin Source is a manufacturer-direct distributor. We supply the materials — kits, primers, topcoats, flake, pigments — to contractors, builders, and DIY garage owners. We don't install floors ourselves, but we'll spec the system, recommend tooling, and walk you through the application before your kit ships.
04Do you sell to DIYers, or only to contractors?+
Both. Roughly 30% of our volume goes to residential DIY garage projects; the rest goes to professional contractors and commercial installs. The chemistry is the same; the difference is mostly batch size and tooling. Our field-notes section has a full weekend walkthrough at /field-notes/first-garage-floor-walkthrough for anyone doing their first pour.
05How fast can you deliver to Austin, Houston, Dallas, or San Antonio?+
We're based in Austin and deliver within a 200-mile radius. Austin and San Antonio are our two same-day markets — in-stock orders placed before the morning cutoff (11 AM Austin, 10 AM San Antonio) reach the job site the same day. Every other Texas city on our coverage map — Houston (~165 mi), Dallas (~195 mi), Waco (~100 mi), College Station (~110 mi) — runs on a next-day window M–F. Outside the radius, we'll quote freight separately.
06Do you deliver outside the 200-mile radius?+
Yes — anywhere outside the radius, we'll quote freight separately. A larger MOQ typically applies to make the freight economics work. Tell us the job site address and the kit count and we'll give you a delivered total within 24 hours.
07What does "manufacturer-direct" actually mean for pricing?+
We partner with a single family-owned manufacturer instead of buying through a wholesale distributor. That removes one layer of margin from the supply chain — the markup most floor-coating distributors charge to repackage and re-label someone else's product. The savings show up in the quote.
08Are your products made in the USA?+
Yes. Every product we stock is manufactured in the United States by our partner manufacturer, who has been formulating these chemistries for over twenty years. We don't import re-labeled product from offshore.
09What's the minimum order quantity (MOQ)?+
Inside Austin: no minimum on in-stock products. Within the 200-mile delivery zone: roughly 5 kits for in-radius drops, scaling to 20 kits at the edge of the zone (~195 miles). Freight quotes apply outside the zone. The MOQ is on the actual quote, not a hard refusal — talk to us about your project and we'll work backwards from the job size.
10What color options are available?+
Our 100% Solids General Use Flooring Epoxy and 100% Solids General Use Fast Cure Epoxy ship in Clear, Tan, Light Grey, and Dark Grey. The polyaspartics ship clear (they're typically applied over a colored or flake-broadcast base). Metallic Epoxy will offer a curated pigment library — final color count published when MT-300 lands on the shelf.
11How long does a polyaspartic floor coating last?+
On a properly prepped substrate with a full epoxy + polyaspartic system, expect 15-20 years of service life on a residential garage floor and 8-12 years in heavy commercial traffic. The biggest variable is prep — see our concrete prep checklist at /field-notes/concrete-prep-checklist.
12What if my slab has high moisture readings?+
If your slab fails the plastic-sheet moisture test (a clear plastic square taped to the floor for 16 hours showing condensation underneath), you need a moisture vapor barrier (MVB) primer before any other coating. Our PR-510 is rated to 12 lb MVT. The prep checklist at /field-notes/concrete-prep-checklist walks through how to test and what to do.
13Do you offer Net-30 or other payment terms?+
We're a launch-stage business — payment is upfront on the first order. Established trade accounts can apply for terms after a few cycles of repeat ordering.
14What hours are you available?+
9AM–9PM · 7 DAYS. The phone ((737) 377-2519) and email (sales@epoxyresinsource.com) are both staffed during those hours; quote responses go out within 24 hours, often same-day.