Superclear Table Top Epoxy Resin 2 Gallon Kit, Crystal Clear 1:1 Coating

I have done several countertops using a popular and well-known seller that is a bit more expensive. I wanted to try a cheaper alternative but did not want to give up the quality. I tried this product as an alternative to do an exotic kitchen countertop pour, and I was not disappointed. It is a bit thicker, so it does not cover as easily. I found heating with a hair dryer moved it around quickly though, so I just needed to get used to a slightly different consistency. This stuff is thicker and cures a bit faster, but I actually like that it cures quicker, because I did not have to wait around nearly as long before removing the tape from the edges. Now that I have used it once, I can confidently say it is a good product, it just works slightly differently from what I had used before. No huge differences, it is just thicker and cures a bit faster, but again, that turns out to be a positive. Another benefit I found is that this epoxy has few if any bubbles, and I did stir it with a drill and paint paddle stirrer. I mean few if any bubbles occurred in the epoxy at all. The key to stirring is to keep the paddle in the epoxy and to hit the bottom and sides fully and stir it for a good 3 to 4 minutes. Once you no longer see any of the white streaks, it is thoroughly mixed. I had no soft or sticky spots at all, and it was nice and dry and hard within 20 hours when I went back to check it. The tops were perfect and I'm more than pleased. If you are having problems with soft or sticky spots, you are probably not mixing it properly. Do not be afraid to mix with a drill and paint paddle, as that worked well for me. In the end, I got a beautiful set of counter tops at about half the usual costs. I give it 5 stars for now. I will try and update this later as to how well it holds up but mixing and pouring and the outcome so far are first class! I give it a full 5 stars for now. No smell at all, very clear so far, mixed easily and the colors are perfect.

Make absolutely certain you mix it thoroughly as with any epoxy. It took one of my pours a few days to cure, my next I added a little more catalyst to the mixture and it was better. I’ve poured two countertops, two coats each and they turned out beautifully. A big help was to take a heat gun to it right after you pour and all of the tiny bubbles come to the surface. I have them as a countertop in a home theater and it’s held up fine, although the countertop sees minimal exposure so I can’t say how resilient it is in a more demanding environment.

Great products and amazing customer service. My project was delayed because of UPS’s awful service (not related to the seller). Overall, the product is great and very easy to work with. I had a couple of issues with UPS, and the seller’s customer service resolved them immediately without any delays.

I originally chose Superclear Tabletop for my countertop project because it has outstanding reviews, a long history of excellence, and the item description includes "countertops" and color mixing as a usage. Hindsight says, I shouldn't have. Murphy's law has dogged this project every step of the way and I just bought my 3rd kit for the one project. 🙃 Ugh. But I actually do like this product, I just didn't fully understand it and its limitations early on. Here's what I learned that I wish I had known initially: *Low viscosity: very very thick. If you have lots of colors you are trying to add to a large surface, good luck. Dirty pours do not like to self level unless you have tons of helpers to get those colors mixed super fast. * Highly reactive: we followed the manufacturers instructions to a T. Or so we thought. They didn't have the youtube vid up for the first pour, about slowly hand mixing the product at the time, so we used a drill paddle. Bad. BadbadbadbadBAD. Don't do that. Use a stir stick and go S.L.O.W. And when they say, no more than 1/2 gallon at a time. They mean, don't even approach a 1/2 gallon at once. On attempt #2 when we switched to 1Litre mixes, it worked brilliantly. Use the metric system for large pours and have a helper who solely mixes product. Otherwise overheating and flash curing is a very real risk. Very easy to trigger with this eppxy. * Other brand's Dispersion fluids do work with product for mixing colors. Thank God, too! Or our project would be a total bust. Of course, use the absolute least amount necessary (>5% volume) but at 3% it was fine. Yay! * Self leveling can be tricky with colors. Expect to do some flood coats for large surfaces. Small areas are no problem (5sq ft easy, but 20sq ft, not so much) I think the 2nd flood coat should be perfectly level. Fingers crossed anyway. So plan for your project to gain thickness if it needs to fit in a prescribed space * Oh, and the working time is short. So move move move when you start mixing. Have your colors already measured and ready to go as soon as the 2 parts meet. Have a plan and do not take your time at any point if you are doing colors. And get some assistants. 2 people with so much real estate was a bad idea. Get some helpers and you should be fine. * Also, this product absolutely refuses to spread nicely over my edges. We had to fill in bare spots by hand with a cheap paint brush. Nightmare moment. If you tape dam, you must pull the dam quickly. Like, 30min - no more than 1 hour and be diligent about breaking surface tension. Also, I highly recommend mixing enough for your edges first, spread with your gloved hands to get 100% edge coverage, then do the top pour. Learned that the hard way too. After all that, we are sticking with Superclear for this project because 'the devil you know'and also, it really does cure beautifully. Perfect hardness throughout. Few bubbles (after the paddle fiasco was corrected). High gloss finish, easy sanding, fast cure, forgiving on thickness (up to 1/4" per pour) and allegedly high durability (remains to be seen for us) makes this a great product. Just so happened that Superclear Tabletop was not the right product for our project, but the price tag is decent and now for the final flood coat it seems risky to switch resins, so hopefully the last will give us the perfect levelness we need. 🤞 In summary, if you have a large project where you want to add lots of micas and dye, this is going to be tough with this product. Not impossible, but tricky. Consider their new 2:1 'countertop' (yes I am grumpy it came out just a few weeks after we were committed to 'tabletop') epoxy. I haven't tried it, but I suspect they addressed some of the more challenging traits of tabletop epoxy with it. Tabletop is phenomenal for floodcoats. Or basically clear pours without additives or for small surfaces, but the greater the surface you need to cover, the more challenging it will be with this reactive epoxy.

I've been using this epoxy for a couple of years now. Very few bubbles, plenty of work time and good finish. This epoxy is reasonably priced and I will continue using it.

This was the first time I used epoxy resin, I was very intimidated as it is not cheap and the table I used it on is a gift for my step daughter,(mommy of 6), built by her grandad and I. The price was a good value & it was easier than I thought it would be. I followed the instructions to the letter & it came out beautiful, it was thick and it dried to a beautiful shine. I really am happy with the outcome & I will buy it again if I have need of it. One small side note to the beginners, get a small squeegee to smooth out the pour, I had a big one and it would have been better with a small one. a good heat gun is all you need to pop any bubbles, just be careful not to scorch it, I have 2 small spots that look like they are foaming but that was my fault & luckily they are on wood that is very white so you can hardly notice.

Great product, mix exact proportions, Mix for 4 min at room temp. Use heat gun, have it ready for bubbles. Dont touch for 24 Hrs.

Purchasing this solution turned into a total nightmare. Why? I attempted to pour it on my granite countertop which with a call to the company I was told I could do. Well first of all it did not mix properly. The instruction said stir for 5 or 6 minutes until the clear. Well, each time I stirred the amount stated in the instructions it always took 18 to 26 minutes. On most pours I still could spread epoxy on the countertop. But on one of the pours the epoxy got extremely hot and immediately solidified. And was the most difficult to remove. The instructions and the company representative that I called said I could use water based paint as A base. Which I did. When the epoxy did not respond correctly when mixing and when spreading I was told the water based paint I used was not the right one. The first two days the epoxy looked really good. But by the third day 85% of the epoxy has not dry, which the instructions said it would dry in about 72 hours. In addition, large sunken areas started to appear along with bubbles despite the fact I had been using the heat gun continuously. By the fifth day it had not dried and I call the company. They instructed me to pour the additional bottle I had on top of the epoxy since it had not dried yet. Well after seeing that the counter now looked pretty terrible I was not convinced this would work. I called the company again and asked to return the unused bottle (I purchased 2 bottles) the issues I had. I think an Alan said there was no returns but in this case they would allow it. I did not know that this epoxy solution could not be returned, It cost $36 dollars to ship it back to the company. The company then failed to refund any of our money despite the fact they said they would. So we ended up out of about $300 for epoxy, materials and postage. Then the company had the option of reselling the returned epoxy putting the actual amount over $400. On top of that, this all occurred on Thanksgiving week. Me and my wife spent over 40 hours scrapping the partially harden epoxy off our countertop. Needless to say, it ruined our holiday and our kitchen countertop as scrapping it off caused more damage to it. The conclusion, either we received defective solution or this is a total scam related to using it on granite countertops. Zero stars, but it would not allow that. Several months have passed and I have still not received my $119.00 refund. DO NOT BUY THIS PRODUCT FOR USE ON GRANITE!!!