SEE EPOXY FLOOR INSTALLATION!!
Floor Engineering has gone thru' a sea change in the last two decades. As we heard in school, Failures are stepping stones to success, we learned over the years, how to get a trouble free flooring system, which we want to share with our valued clients or prospective clients. Worth mentioning that, like any other failure, these failures also have reasons and we have to understand the reasons, so as to have a trouble free floor. We Purechem-Fosroc, in totality have covered many hundred thousand sq mts doing epoxy flooring systems all over the world and we hereby lay unbiased opinions as to why epoxy flooring fails.
- Non Standard Floor: Floor made out of specification, slender sections, lack of water proofing layers below the floor etc,
- Rising dampness: If floors are casted on areas having high water table, capillary action will such the water from the ground. In turn it will create a hydrostatic pressure and with due course of time, we can see the floor bulging out and failing. The picture below shows how that happens,
3. Top layer of the Floor to Soft: However good a epoxy system you choose, it is the mother concrete that is going to support the system. If the concrete below is weak and dusty it is going to fail,
4. Surface Preparation: It is the most important activity for a successful flooring system. There are various kinds of surface preparations and preparation tools available for various systems. All systems have different surface prep. techniques and only experience and knowledge can bail you out of it. In case you need to know more contact Team Purechem - Fosroc
5. Priming: There are different priming techniques and also priming materials. There is no thumb rule but there are options based on the system selected.
6. Tools: Applications tools also contribute a lot for the success. Every operation has a tool and the team should be equipped and trained to handle such tools.
In case you read this article and you are about to cast your concrete floor, which would need epoxy flooring later on, please feel free to contact any member of Team Purechem-Fosroc, so that you can be guided for a good concrete floor, which would support your flooring system.
