For Architects and Specifiers

Bona Coatings — Architect Hub

Single source of truth for specifying Bona timber floor coatings in Australia. Data pulled from manufacturer TDS and third-party certificates. Every fact on this hub cites its source document.

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18 products

Per-product technical pages

Full spec sheet: physical properties, application, performance, compliance, and every downloadable document.

18 cleaners · 5 schedules

Cleaning & Maintenance

Residential, commercial and sport cleaning products with every TDS/SDS linked, plus structured rotations (daily/weekly/periodic) for sealed timber, oiled timber, hard-surface, commercial and sport floors.

5 adhesive products

Adhesives & Installation

Bona glue-down system: OptiSpread UX, Quantum T, R820 adhesives, D501 primer and R540 moisture barrier. Substrates, CM/RH limits, EC1 Plus status and moisture-management guide.

4 abrasive lines

Abrasives & Sanding Media

8700 Ceramic (primary sanding), Diamond (intercoat), Edger Discs (ErgoEdge), Scrad Pad System (intercoat key). Grit sequence, machine compatibility, sanding-step matrix.

9 certification types

Compliance hub

EC1 Plus, GREENGUARD Gold, EN 71-3, DIBt, EN 13501-1, AS 4586 slip, ISO 14001 and more — what each one means and which products hold it.

202 documents

Downloads index

Every TDS, SDS, spec-paragraph PDF, brochure and certificate we hold. Filterable table with direct download links.

NCC / AS-ready

Spec paragraph builder

Pick product, gloss, substrate and conditions. Outputs copy-paste-ready specification text, drawn from Bona Specifier Paragraph PDFs.

MasterFormat / NATSPEC / NBS

Clause builder

Generate a full MasterFormat 09 64 29, NATSPEC 0964 or NBS K21 clause for any Bona product, with substrate compatibility warnings, citations and required-attachments list.

Up to 4 products

Compare coatings

Side-by-side matrix of every spec field — VOC, solids, pot life, abrasion, coverage, certifications, compatible substrates.

Client-side

Coverage calculator

Input area in square metres, select product and coat count, output litres required with worst-case pack count.

4 ranges

Range overviews

Traffic, Mega, Oil and Primer ranges compared head-to-head within each family.

1,100+ answers

Specifier FAQ

Every populated spec field, every compliance certificate, every comparison and substrate question — with citations back to the Bona TDS, SDS or third-party test report.

12 failure modes

Hazards & failure modes

20-year risk register for timber floors: UV, moisture, slab transfer, salt air, termite, BAL fire, tannin bleed, adhesive failure. Every risk and mitigation cites its source.

9 archetypes

Design trends & style archetypes

2026 colour forecasts (Dulux, Haymes, Resene, Pantone, Benjamin Moore) mapped to nine style archetypes with matched Bona finishes for each trend.

OpenAPI 3.1

API

Programmatic access to search, cited synthesis and NATSPEC/MasterFormat clause generation. Interactive Swagger UI, rate limited 60/min/IP, free to use with attribution.

32 species

Species & primer compatibility

Australian hardwoods and imports mapped to the four Bona primers, with tannin flags and links to per-species specifier FAQ.

What this hub is

Architect-facing, data-first. No marketing prose, no rewrites of Bona's claims. Every product page is built from a structured JSON spec file with source PDFs cited at the row level so you can verify any figure before it hits a drawing set.

Specification paragraphs are drawn from Bona's own Specifier Paragraph PDFs. Where a value is not yet published by Bona, it is rendered as with a data-pending note — so gaps are visible.

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