This depends on the type of truck you have and whether you request a color liner. Typically, most regular liners can be done in two man-hours. Color liners can take an additional hour to complete and one hour for the top-coat to cure. You should enquire with your dealer the time required to complete your bedliner.

The only requirements are that your truck bed be clean and free of debris. Please check with your local dealer for more specific instructions.

Our equipment has electronically controlled heaters that heat the material to a set temperature, usually 140F. This lowers viscosity of the product giving you a finer textured bedliner.

Spraying a bedliner requires 3 to 5 gallons of material, depending on the size of the truck and if over-rail protection is applied.

This is a common question and one of the biggest misconceptions in our industry today. Companies who claim a ¼” thick liner are misleading consumers in most cases. You will commonly see “up to ¼ inch thick” on advertising materials and brochures. The catch is the “up to.” These applicators use “edge loading” techniques – the process of spraying extra material on the edges of the truck bed, to give the illusion of ¼ inch thickness throughout. Some go even further by telling the potential customers that the material is sprayed 3/8th to ¼ inch thick on the floor and 1/8th on the sides. But if asked how much total material is used in the application, they suggest four and a half to five gallons of material.

The math simply does not add up!

To determine the volume of 100% solid material required to meet this specification, we use a simple, straight forward volume calculation.

1 gallon of polyurethane material will cover 1604 ft2 at 1/1000th of an inch thick (1 mil). To determine the volume required to cover a given area at a given thickness, we multiply the area in square feet by the thickness in 1000ths of an inch (mils) and divide by 1604.

Gallons = Square Feet X Thickness (mils) / 1604 mil/ft2/gal

To illustrate, we measured the truck bed of a Ford Ranger:

Floor = 33.0 ft2
Tailgate = 6.4 ft2
Total at ¼ inch 39.4 ft2 X 250 mil (1/4 inch) / 1604 mil/ft2/gal = 6.14 gallons
Sides 31.2 ft2
Total at 1/8th inch 31.2 ft2 X 125mil (1/8th inch) / 1604 mil/ft2/gal = 2.43 gallons

Total = 8.57 gallons

Total of 8.57 gallons! 97% more than the company claims as their average amount of material per truck. And this is a small truck!

A full size truck with a long box and over-rail protection will use over 11 gallons of material at the advertised thickness. We should note that 11 gallons of coating also weighs 101 pounds. Trust we’ve made our point with this one.

Our material is a hybrid blend of polyurethanes and polyureas. Most of the products on the market that are described as polyureas are actually hybrids. The truth is that both have their benefits and strengths and only a blend offers you the best of both products.

Our material out performs others for the following reasons.

• “User Friendliness.” It can be sprayed in virtually any climate or under any weather conditions.
• It is slow enough that it “wets” into body seams but fast enough not to run or sag.
• It produces a great looking texture, not the typical dry looking finish. Has physical properties that are higher than most other bedliner products.
• Uses a very heavy, high-grade loading of pigment, giving it a rich black color that resists chalking longer than any other black liner we know of.

Not necessarily. As with all things there are trade offs. The softer, low pressure material gives a bit more grip while the harder high pressure material is much more resistant to physical damage. This difference is especially important in hot weather where the surface temperature of a black bedliner can reach 160F in the sun. At these temperatures low pressure material softens losing up to 50% of its strength.