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Does your space have peeling, cracking or uneven floors? What about unattractive and unsanitary conditions due to the floor’s current condition? Do these conditions cause workplace hazards?
Romava has the solution for you – the last floor you will ever need. Perfect for hotels, resorts, restaurants, restrooms, schools, universities, breweries, salons, gymnasiums, studios, laboratories, chemical plants, warehouses, and many more places in need of resinous flooring or decorative coating systems.
No surprise, roadways, and driveways are made of concrete, which is extraordinarily strong and durable. A concrete floor cannot be dented or scratched and is a great choice for industrial and manufacturing facilities.
Concrete floors are visually appealing and provide an economical means of maintaining a comfortable temperature within a home, office, and commercial or industrial spaces. Concrete floors can take on a wide range of looks and textures with little expense and minimal maintenance.
A concrete substrate is essentially an underlay, where another flooring choice is placed over top. A concrete substrate can take on a range of shapes and sizes, and can be covered by many different coatings, paints or other materials to protect them from harsh, corrosive environments.
The following are examples of mechanical floor preparation tools that you can use to remove tile, thin-set, mastic, and adhesive from concrete floors. Some of these items can also be used to prepare the floor prior to concrete floor coatings installation.
Depending on the state of the floor, additional tools and materials may be necessary.
Before the installation of any concrete coating, you want to ensure that your floor is free of any contamination such as dirt, dust, oil, residue, damaged concrete or existing coatings. Removing these contaminates ensure that the primers and coatings have good contact with the concrete. Floor preparation also increases the surface profile and texture known as the Concrete Surface Preparation (CSP) level which is the industry standard and rating.
Since vinyl tiles and linoleum planks are not as rigid as ceramic and porcelain tiles, they will not crack as easily when removed from a concrete floor. Using floor scrapers or pry tools can work well. In larger areas such as commercial settings, electric scrapers as well as ride-on floor scrapers can be used to efficiently speed up the process of removal. Regardless of the removal process, you will want to ensure you mechanically prepare the floor prior to the application of any type of coating. The floor will likely need to be repaired and the mastic or thin-set will need to be removed as well.
A floor is only ever as good as what is underneath it. The substrate or concrete in your facility is probably not perfectly flat or even. This possibility is especially true for older buildings or spaces that are currently or even previously experiencing heavy traffic from equipment such as industrial forklifts. Often concrete can be damaged by years of use within a facility. We offer systems that can level any surface to ensure that it is ready to receive a new resinous coating.
Leveling or repairing floors prior to the installation of a new flooring solution can exponentially increase the design life of the new floor by reducing the uneven areas. Uneven areas are often subjected to constant abrasion because they are higher or lower than the primary areas around them. For example, think of a pothole, or the edge of a side walk, and notice that they often get worse over time (when left untreated). Levelling a floor (when required) is money well-spent prior to starting your new flooring project.
After determining the cause of the uneven floor, your flooring contractor can utilize methods including grinding, scarifying, and planning to level it out. In contrast, self-leveling mortars, bonding agents, and surface preparation are necessary for adjusting a floor’s level.
Most people should not paint concrete floors on their own. Generally, proper floor preparation is skipped, and the floor ultimately fails. The formulas of “floor paint” are not intended to be a long-lasting solution for floor coatings. Fortunately, concrete is a versatile material that can be easily modified and improved. If your budget only allows you to install floor paint, be sure to prep the surface as well as possible with the tools you have at your disposal or rent the proper equipment.
If you are ready to paint your concrete floors, here are three key steps to follow:
Get the Surface Ready
The condition of your concrete flooring will be obvious even after you have painted over it. The surface must be pristine in order to get the best results while painting the concrete floors. What you see is what your get when using thin film products such as commercial or residential floor paints.
Degrease the Surface and Mechanically Abrade the Surface
Use a concrete degreasing product designed for the flooring to get a longer result with the least amount of peeling. Wear protective eyewear, clothing, and gloves before spraying down the floor with a concrete degreasing agent, as these are often applied to wet concrete. Once this step has been completed, you will want to ensure the floor is rinsed and completely dry before mechanically grinding, sanding or abrading the concrete.
Patch up any Holes or Divots that will Show Through the Floor
Crumbling concrete should be removed with a wire brush, hammer, or scraper before applying concrete filler. Be sure to vacuum the floor well before application as well to ensure proper bonding.
