Industrial Flooring
Concrete Polishing
As one of the most innovative and economical flooring options available today, polished concrete flooring is leading the market in warehouse facilities across the nation. From warehouses to industrial plants, dry-polished concrete floors are quickly becoming one of the fastest growing phenomena to ever hit the industry.
The low maintenance, easy to clean polished surface has led more and more industries to realize the value of their existing concrete and capitalize on this flooring option. Polished concrete provides a long lasting, high gloss finish that maximizes light reflectance and eliminates the need for floor waxes, liquid polishes and conventional resin based coatings.
Floor coatings and sealers are outstanding in many situations but have brought about many challenges to companies where the coatings do not meet their specific needs. This has forced these industries to search out alternatives that will provide them an affordable, easy to maintain, aesthetically pleasing, safe and durable surface protection. Industrial plants, warehouse facilities and manufacturing sites have found the qualities in a properly executed concrete polished flooring system. They have the added bonus of an unexpected beauty and that they never dreamed could be possible.
Polyaspartic / Polyureas Become Part of Your Concrete Floors
Our polyaspartic / polyurea coating was developed specifically to withstand the daily wear and tear on an industrial warehouse floor. Forklifts, abrasive foot traffic, spills, and items dragged over the surface will not cause the concrete flooring to deteriorate.
It starts with surface preparation and the unique wetting ability of our purebred polyurea. The prime coat soaks into the pores of the concrete. When cured, it actually becomes part of the floor, not merely stuck to the surface. Your concrete will break before our polyurea does. Your new coating will not delaminate due to moisture pressure or salts in concrete as with an epoxy floor.
Consistent Thickness Throughout The Floor
There is a significant difference between a polyurea and epoxy. Shotblasting is the best way to prepare a surface before applying an epoxy. This method of floor preparation follows the contour of the surface, which means that the highs and lows inherent in concrete are not removed. Epoxy, being a self-leveler, will cure thicker in low spots and thinner in high spots. For example, a typical epoxy may be designed to cure at 15 mil (mil =1/1000th of an inch). In low spots on a floor, an epoxy may be 30 mils and only 4-5 mils on the high spots.
Before applying our polyurea, surface preparation requires floor grinding rather than shotblasting. Floor grinding not only opens the pores of the concrete, allowing for the polyureas to “wet” into the surface, but also with proper techniques removes the high spots on a concrete floor. The result is a smooth, flat surface, with consistent application.
Ability To Flex
You may have noticed how some coatings are cracked above expansion joints and cracks. This is due to the coating’s brittle nature. Our polyurea has been engineered with flexibility, moving with slight movements of the floor over cracks. Additionally, all cracks are filled to the bottom of the crack, usually about four inches. This prevents a crack from becoming a vent for moisture pressure, and the filler will not cave in. Many cracks are filled only at the surface because they are too thick to fill the entire crack.
Exceeding OSHA Nonslip Guidelines
We build nonslip aggregate into each layer. As a result, your floor will maintain legal levels of Coefficient of Friction, set by OSHA. If your floor shows wear from excessive use, the next nonslip layer is exposed. Most floor coatings have nonslip aggregate broadcast into the surface, which is dislodged with wear. Such a floor often becomes slippery within a year. Our method keeps floors safe, preventing slip-and-fall accidents and litigation.
Ease Of Maintenance
Our polyurea coating has been engineered with increased elongation, which minimizes microscratches that harbor dirt. Additionally, microscratches are straight and do not fray. If a floor coating becomes dirty and hard to maintain, it’s because of the frayed microscratches that trap dirt.
Our polyurea coating is very easy to maintain, only needing a simple ammonia and water solution and a neoprene squeegee and broom. You do not have to use a mop that just pushes dirt around.
A neoprene squeegee will remove 99% of surface moisture almost immediately, with the balance drying fast. Because we grind the floor flat and remove all the high spots, excess water will not pool. Your floor is easy to clean, and labor costs are reduced.
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