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After experiencing lifting and pealing of many epoxy floor products, many industries have reduced their expectations for shop floor life to three or four years. This is unfortunate because epoxy floors have an intrinsic service period of at least a decade or more if the subfloor is properly prepared prior to laying down the coating. |
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1.Corrosion Protections
This determines the general durability an epoxy coat and how much it can take from the elements; it is especially important when the coating is to be applied to any surface that is expected to be out-of-doors. It measures the general rate that the epoxy resins avoid deterioration from wear and tear and general foot abuse. A higher corrosion protection rating means that, in general, the protective epoxy coat lasts longer overall and can have a durability rating in excess of ten years. |
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2.Chemical Protections
This is a rating that measures the epoxys protective measure against solvents, acids, and other chemicals that, when directly applied to a coating with lower Chemical Protection ratings, will dissolve and damage the epoxy and quite probably damage the materials beneath it. Higher chemical protection ratings are extremely important in most cases where the materials and items being coated with epoxy can be expected to encounter such corrosive substances e.g. the floor of a garage. Chemical protection is a general rating by and large, but there are also specially designed epoxies available, usually for industrial and commercial purposes, that are made to counteract the effects of certain corrosive chemicals. If your epoxy coating is expected to come into contact with these chemicals, look for epoxy brands that will be resistant to them. |
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3. Moisture Barrier Floor Coating
The powder is called efflorescence
Concrete is naturally porous (12%-18% air) - when it cures, surplus water escapes and creates a network of interconnected capillaries, much smaller than human hair (10-100 nm). The capillaries draw water from the ground by wicking action or let in water under hydrostatic pressure. The pores also let in water vapor and radon gas, which are pulled in by the lower air pressure and concentration indoors.
The white power seen on some concrete floors is created by water pushing up through concrete, collecting and liquefying minerals as it goes. Once the water reaches the surface and breaks through, it evaporates leaving the white power/efflorescence. As seen by the picture on the right where the water vapor has lifted the epoxy off and broken through the coated floor, evaporated leaving the tell-tail white power.
There is a permanent cure for the problem that allows the concrete floor to be coated without the fear of seeing your once beautiful epoxy coated floor destroyed by an unseen vapor.
This cure is a new tecnology sealer component that penetrates 2–4 inches into the microscopic pores and hardens. Similar to filling the pores with a hard plastic like epoxy. Water or efflorescence cannot budge it and it becomes permanent protecting the epoxy coating that beautifies your floor.
This new technology is called 8000 CMW Moisture Vapor Barrier. Unique characterizes CMW incorporates a reactive silicate and non-silicate based multifunctional crystal growth matrix that reacts with hydroxides and tri-calcium silicate and various ion components within the capillary/pore matrix structure of the concrete. This reaction creates a calcium-silicate hydrophilic particle grain crystal/hydrogel with a non-diluting property that will repel absorption of penetrating liquids and substantially hinder and eliminate the passage of liquids and vapors through concrete structure.
What all this technical jargon means is: IT WORKS! |
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