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Concrete Floor Coatings
Why Use Concrete Coatings
Concrete floors experience much damage, including cracks, chipping, and stains. These could be from oil spills, foot traffic, car weight, or tools falling on the floor. In some cases, these types of damage are not significant enough to necessitate removing the floor and replacing it with a new one.
In such cases, we recommend using a specialized coating as an effective repair solution for damaged floors. Coating concrete floors increases their durability and beauty by covering concrete cracks, stains, and other imperfections. It also makes them easier to clean and maintain and increases the home’s value. Finally, it helps improve the floor’s safety by adding an anti-slip property, offering maximum grip.
Here are some of our concrete coating options that we offer in Calgary.
Epoxy Coating
Epoxy floor coating is the most common because of its hardness, impact resistance, and durability. It comes in two parts, a polyamine hardener and epoxy resin. When mixed, these two chemicals become harder as they cure on the floor.
Many people use an epoxy coating on concrete floors that experience a lot of weight and friction, like garages, warehouses, and logistic facilities.
Urethane Coatings
Also known as polyurethane floor coatings, urethane coatings have a similar finish to epoxy coatings. Their structure makes them perfect for high-pedestrian places like malls, car parks, airports, and hospitals.
They also cure faster than an epoxy coating, and their flexibility makes them ideal for use in low-freezing temperatures. We, however, don’t recommend them in high-moisture places because they will flake.
Polyaspartic Floor Coating
Polyaspartic coating is in the urethane coatings family, Most commonly used in garage floor applications with colourful paint chips. Polyaspartic floor coating is also highly customizable and can be used in many different applications. From aircraft hangers to mechanical rooms and shop floors. Polyaspartic floor coatings are a great choice!
Polyaspartic Garage Floor Coatings
Polyaspartic coating is in the urethane coatings family, Most commonly used in garage floor applications with colour paint chips. Polyaspartic floor coating is also highly customizable and can be used in many different applications. From aircraft hangers to mechanical rooms and shop floors. You can have coving installed for a true sealed surface from wall to wall. Polyaspartic floor coatings are a great choice!
Surface Preparation
Surface preparation is critical to the longevity of any coating. We cut open and bond all cracking to ensure no future movement. Diamond grinding of the concrete is done for optimal bonding and smoothing out of all cracks and repairs. We can even remove pooling areas with installation of a concrete overlay.
Epoxy Base Coat
The installation of a epoxy broadcast coat will give you extra thickness for that flake install. Epoxy cures slower than the polyaspartic and will allow for optimal bonding into the concrete surface. Some contractors like to use the quick and easy polyaspartic base coat to save time. Unfortunately a polyaspartic base coat will most likely fail and peel up over time.
Sanding the Flake
We like to sand the flake surface as apposed to using a flat blade to scrape the surface. This gives a more uniform and desired look to the flake surface.
Durable Polyaspartic Top Coat
We provide a generous top coat of polyaspartic over the flake. Polyaspartic works great to give a very hard durable surface that is easy to clean.