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Bona SuperCourt Winter Cleaner

Bona SuperCourt Athletic Wood Floor Winter Cleaner Concentrate is specifically designed to remove the damaging salts on athletic wood floors tracked in during winter months. This unique formulation quickly and safely breaks down and lift calcium, magnesium and sodium salts, restoring the original gloss to athletic floors without damaging the finish.

• Specially designed for athletic floor cleaning
• Safe for wood floors
• Weekly auto scrubbing is recommended
• Concentrated 64:1
• Tilt & measure bottle for easy use

Trends in Blends 

A big advantage versus a straight stain application which can only happen on raw wood, the hybrid paint/finish process can be administered on a full sand and re-finish or even during a recoat, which makes this so much more valuable to any sport floor professional. Creating custom looks and colors with these two processes is a great way to set your Bona Sport system offering apart from the competition!

Bona Glaze - Bona DTS Sport Seal and Bona SuperSport Paint hybrid mix

• Provides a stained appearance without penetrating into the wood. 
• Can be achieved on a sealed or fully cured (abraded) floor, prior to top coats of clear finish.
• Mix ratios can vary depending on the desired translucency.

Best Practices:

• Mix Ratios
  • 16oz (2 cups) paint per gallon of finish if using white paint
  •  8oz (1 cup) paint per gallon of finish for all other paint colors
• Apply with T-bar.  Keep application runs straight and follow immediately with a “dry” T-bar to remove excess mixture and prevent lap marks
• Less is more when doing this process. Add multiple coats to achieve a darker color
• Use a stencil mask to separate colors and create clean lines.  As one color over another color will create a different color, be careful not to overlap at all (no bleed line on stencil masks)
• Dry time: 3-4 hours if coating with waterborne; 10-12 hours if coating with oil-modified poly. Abrade with Conditioning Pad and two Diamond 240 grit discs before adding regular painted gamelines
  • Create a safety perimeter with stencil masking material to pull the excess material onto at the end of each run. Do not attempt to turn and feather out like you would on a regular finish application

Bona Courtlines and Dri Fast Stain Mixture

• Achieve a more vibrant consistent look
• Only for unfinished/bare wood

Best Practices:

• Mix Ratios
• 2 parts stain to 1 part paint
• Water popping is a must- ensure excess water is removed and thoroughly dry before applying stain/paint mixture. Area will be vulnerable to scuffs/marks after water popped.
• Prefer to use  carpet pad/non-abrasive white pad under buffer to ensure consistent application of stain
• Add more stain if needed to keep consistent
• Use a second pad to buff off excess stain

Tech Tips & Tricks

To produce this much sought after look, mix Bona SuperSport Paint – Black with Bona DTS waterborne sealer in approximately a 3:2 ratio (or 60% paint and 40% sealer if that’s easier to picture). Shake well and apply with a Bona Roller in the regular manner. Have a bare spot, blotchy look or thin areas? Because this is a hybrid system utilizing waterborne sealer, just let the 1st coat dry for 2-3 hours before applying a second coat to even everything out; then protect with 1-2 coats of Bona waterborne finish. Experiment with other SuperSport Paint colors and exponentially expand your color style offering!