Needs Analysis
As a part of installing a new floor at your facility, Floorcrete consultants will get to know your business and operaton to choose the right system suited for your needs. We will do this by asking you to do a site survey before one of our representative come to your facility to further discuss the details of the project.
The site survey will indicate to us what your specific flooring needs are and what is the best system to be installed in different areas of your workplace based on following measures.
- Hygiene
- Safety
- Functinality
- Environmental
- Operational Changes
- Project Scope
Floorcrete will put together a project plan based on the information gathered from the site survey to choose a flooring system tailored to fit your requirements.
Surface Preperation
Floorcrete surface preparation is done by following NACE and world’s top manufacturers of adhesive, sealants, and epoxy coatings standards.
As a critical part of a successful epoxy/polyurethane flooring installation, our team use their years of experience and training to choose the right type of surface preparation required for installation of your new floor.
The factors that are considered before choosing the right type of surface preparation are:
Surface type: mostly concrete, or aluminum, galvanized and ferrous metal or steel.
Facility environment: traffic and cleaning schedule, moisture and temperature.
Flooring system or coating selection: compliance with manufacturer’s specification
Contamination: before applying new floor system, all surfaces must be clean, free of rust,
dirt, oil, sealers, loose paint, and chemicals.
Floorcrete uses variety of preparation techniques and Equipment:
Cutting: specialized saws are used for cutting and creating new joints in the floor. They are also used for cleaning and routing out cracks and joints.
Shotblasting: a cost-effective , labour, and time saving method for preparing concrete and steel surfaces. Shotblasting strips, cleans, and profiles leaving the concrete floor ready for installing polymer floors.Different metal shot sizes, shot flow rate, and travel speed result in different surface profiles.
Grinding and Polishing: polishers, planetary grinders and diamond grinders are used to remove adhesives, elastomeric coatings, waterproofing membranes, surface imperfections, coatings, mastics, epoxies and paint. Floorcrete team use grinders to smooth or flatten concrete slabs for decorative application. Grinding machines are also use to polish concrete to a high shine, restore old slabs for staining or densifying.
Scarifying: these equipments use steel or carbide tipped cutters to break the existing coating, remove oil contamination, traffic lines or paint.
Scraping and stripping: remove tiles, grouts, mastic, floor coverings and mortars.
Floorcrete has mutually beneficial partnerships with top equipment suppliers to ensure the best surface preparation.
- Blastrac
- Diaomatic
- HTC
Concrete Testing
Concrete is porous and is subjected to contamination from moisture, chemicals, and oils. Changes in humidity levels and temperature lead to movement of the concrete substrate and cracking and delamination of the flooring surface over time.
Floorcrete utilizes the latest technology for testing concrete substrates to determine what elements can lead to failure of industrial and commercial epoxy flooring surfaces.
These tests include:
- Moisture Content
- Vapour Emission
- PH
- Relative Humidity
- Core Sampling
- Compressive Strength
- Conductive Test
Our team of experts will give you the needed consultation to ensure the maximum service life for your industrial and commercial flooring surface.