A credential earned, not bought.
XPS — Xtreme Polishing Systems — is the most rigorous industrial floor coating credential issued in the United States. Not a mailed-in test. Not an online module. A multi-day, hands-on, live-installation program where applicators are evaluated by instructors on real concrete substrates.
Most floor coatings fail at the install, not the can.
The industrial floor coating failure literature is consistent: the vast majority of failures in service trace back to installation errors, not material defects. Wrong surface profile. Skipped moisture testing. Off-ratio mix. Out-of-window environmental conditions. Substrate problems that weren't addressed.
Every one of those is an installer decision. The materials are the same materials. What changes is who's installing them.
XPS certification exists to filter for installers who've been tested on those decisions in front of instructors — and passed.
Six categories. All tested live.
Multi-day live installation training on real substrates. No online substitute exists. Trainees prep, mix, apply, and broadcast under instructor observation.
ICRI Concrete Surface Profile reading (CSP-1 through CSP-9), joint detailing, crack repair specification, substrate hardness assessment.
Two-component mixing ratios, mil thickness verification, recoat windows, pot life management — the science behind why a coating bonds and cures correctly.
ASTM F2170 (in-situ relative humidity probe) and F1869 (calcium chloride) testing protocols. The diagnosis that determines whether moisture vapor barrier is required.
Operation and maintenance of diamond grinders, shot blasters, and HEPA dust control systems. Equipment failures cause coating failures.
Temperature, humidity, dewpoint relative to substrate temperature, ventilation. The application window for resin coatings is narrower than most installers realize.
Pass/fail, in front of instructors.
Most floor coating manufacturer "training" is a half-day product overview, often with no installation, no testing, and a certificate handed out at the end. XPS certification is structured differently. Most of the course is hands-on. Trainees prep substrate, mix resin, apply coats, broadcast aggregate, and manage cure cycles — and the instructors observe and grade the work as it happens.
The course ends with an assessment: a full system installed on prepared substrate under instructor observation, graded against the certification standard. The certification only goes to installers who demonstrated the skill set in front of the instructors.
For commercial spec writers.
Specifying an XPS-certified installer on a commercial floor coating bid does several useful things: it filters bidders to those who've actually invested in installation expertise, sets a quality floor for the prep and application execution that will be on-site, and provides documentation for warranty claims if anything fails later. It also aligns with manufacturer warranty terms for many commercial-grade resin systems that require certified installation for warranty validity.
For high-end residential.
A residential garage floor is a $4,000–$15,000 install, and the difference between a 3-year coating and a 20-year coating is almost entirely about who installed it — not only what brand of resin was used. The same XPS-certified crew that handles our commercial work installs your home floor.
Bring us a project.
Whether it's a 100,000 sq ft warehouse or a residential garage, the same XPS-certified team handles the install. Same standard, same documentation, same certificate at the end.