Seventy-five years ago, Dr. Sylvan O. Greenlee designed a molecule with unique properties. He described it as a syrup liquid at room temperature and is the material that makes floor coatings as durable as rock.
This discovery was liquid epoxy resin. Dr. Greenlee obtained a patent for this work in 1948, and many grades of these resins made their commercial debut.
Epoxy is now one of the most favored flooring for all floors and can be used on any substrate. You can use it on a concrete floor, steel floor, or even on wood or another firm base that must be dry and moisture-free.
Epoxy flooring can withstand the heaviest of traffic. This makes it the perfect flooring for factories, warehouses, garages, and airplane hangars.
In addition, we often use the flooring for sports areas, homes and public buildings, and other areas with constant heavy foot traffic.
Epoxy is available in many colors and with many additions that can give unique, custom-designed floors. Different colors make it easy to color-code floors depending on their usage and have proved very helpful in factories and other places.
The cross-linking of the molecules in the epoxy resins makes the flooring impermeable to air and water intrusion. It is also highly resistant to corrosive materials and chemical attacks, making it a highly effective fire retardant.
We can combine epoxy resins with other materials so that they have a better performance. For instance, adding silica sand to the flooring can make it skid-resistant while giving a beautifully textured floor.
Epoxy floors are easy to maintain and need nothing more than cleaning or vacuuming them and then mopping them down with water. Floors will then never look dirty and keep their smooth and shiny appearance.
Installing this flooring can require significant investments, but the epoxy flooring benefits far outweigh the costs.
Epoxy coatings, when properly applied, will provide a layer with an adhesive power of 1500 pounds per square inch of flooring, even when continuously exposed to heavy loads.
Epoxy floor coatings come in a two-part mixture of resin and hardener that can be rolled onto floors in multiple layers to create seamless stretches of floors. However, blending these two components, resin and hardener, must be done carefully.
We then apply the blended product to the floor before it hardens. You can also get epoxy floor coatings that are metallic or pre-tinted.
Want more information? Please take a look around our website for some beautiful examples. You can pick and choose your colors and design. Call us at (713) 365-0444 for a FREE quote.
