An appealing floor is essential to creating an excellent customer experience in any workplace, and can demonstrate to customers that you care about its appearance as well as reduce slips and falls risk.
Epoxy floors are strong and hard, designed to withstand high levels of traffic while remaining impact and abrasion-resistant.
Easy to Clean
Assuming proper care and maintenance, epoxy floors can be relatively straightforward to keep looking their best. Sweeping them regularly to remove dust or debris is key in keeping them looking their best, while for tough stains we suggest using a soft kitchen sponge and warm water with caution to gently scrub at any spots where staining occurs while being mindful not to damage the coating underneath. Avoid steel wool and harsh chemicals like Comet for your best results when maintaining an epoxy floor.
For daily cleaning needs, we suggest an 8:1 solution of simple green with warm water or clear ammonia solution (2-3 ounces of clear ammonia in one gallon of hot water). These will effectively rid your floor of any dirt and grime without harming its finish; just remember to rinse your mop in clean water after each cleaning session to ensure any residues have been eliminated from it.
Epoxy and urethane are durable materials designed to withstand the demands of business or industrial environments, from warehouses and loading docks, back-of-house areas, medical facilities, schools, hotels/casinos/homes; plus they’re antimicrobial to prevent growth of bacteria/mildew/microbes that can pose health hazards to employees/visitors/homes/etc.
Long-Lasting
Addition of polyurethane finish coat to the surfaces of your building is an effective way to prolong its lifespan and protect them against weather-induced degradation, guaranteeing its exterior will look its best even after years of exposure to harsh elements.
This protective coating can be applied to many different building materials. Its effectiveness lies particularly with metal roofs, window mullions and doors, metal door frames and architectural elements such as window mullions. Furthermore, this protective layer can also be applied directly onto concrete surfaces such as sandstone or stone for increased durability and stain resistance.
Addition of polyurethane floor coating will make your facility far more durable than concrete alone, standing up better against heavy machinery, vehicle traffic and impact damage. Furthermore, chemicals and thermal shock will be better tolerated. Furthermore, adding antimicrobial additives will prevent bacterial growth as well as any related issues.
Polyurethane floors also offer many hygienic advantages over concrete surfaces, including resistance to moisture and bacteria growth, frequent cleanings, decontaminations processes, and decontanization treatments. Furthermore, their seamless surface makes cleaning simpler.
If you want a hygienic epoxy floor in your facility, choose a full color flake floor made with acrylic color chips that are UV stable and won’t yellow over time. As an extra safeguard measure, add clear polyurethane for extra protection.
Durable
Epoxy coating used for flooring applications is highly resilient and long-wearing, easily withstanding the level of traffic your facility receives on a daily basis. This makes epoxy floors an invaluable asset that doesn’t wear down over time or need regular waxing/recoating needs compared to other surfaces such as carpet. Epoxy floors not only withstand foot and forklift traffic but are also protected against water, chemical spills and impact resistance – further making them a wise investment choice!
Experienced flooring contractors should always be hired when installing epoxy floors, to ensure proper bonding between base coat and build coat systems and concrete surfaces, followed by topcoats to protect the top layer and enhance protection for your floor.
Epoxy and urethane flooring systems both provide strong protection from damage to floors, though urethane floor coatings tend to be more resilient against UV rays and thermal shock than their epoxy counterparts, which makes them especially helpful for facilities that experience frequent temperature shifts such as hospitals or food processing plants. Urethane resins can also be applied fluidly over multiple coats like epoxy but their application process is faster and less messy allowing PU to serve a broader variety of industries by completing multicoat projects more quickly than epoxy can.
Affordable
Epoxy floor coatings offer a relatively affordable way to upgrade the aesthetics of industrial or commercial spaces. Tough yet heat and chemical-resistant, epoxy coatings make an excellent addition to areas such as carparks that experience heavy foot traffic. Furthermore, epoxy provides greater heat and chemical resistance than other flooring options, making it suitable for warehouses equipped with forklifts or factories that handle potentially harmful chemicals.
Epoxy and polyurethane floors both offer smooth surfaces that are simple to keep clean, making it easy for cleaning services. Both materials also bind well to concrete slabs and can be applied directly over existing slabs for quick installation costs and time savings.
Epoxy may be hard, but it doesn’t stand up well against impacts and sharply pointed objects, easily becoming damaged. Urethane on the other hand is more resilient, capable of withstanding more impacts while being less vulnerable to UV rays than epoxy.
Costwise, urethane may be more costly than epoxy but lasts longer and can be applied to surfaces that may not be as smooth. If impact and chemical damage resistance is of importance to you, speaking with one of our representatives about which option would be more suitable for your business needs might be worthwhile.