Concrete Floor Coatings
Concrete Floor Coatings
Everyday, your concrete floor is exposed to harmful agents such as water that produce cracks and stains, diminishing the concrete’s durability. Concrete floor coatings are special types of thick paint designed to protect and seal your concrete floor. Concrete floor coatings prevent moisture and water infiltrations that could lead to harmful efflorescence, the apparition of algae and mold as well as cracks and radon transmission. All of these effects of the moisture can negatively affect the health of your family. Protecting your concrete floor with a concrete floor coating is extremely important.
But before you begin applying concrete floor coating, you have to clean the floor and eliminate any source of moisture.
Concrete coating doesn’t only serve practical purposes such as protection and easy maintenance, but it also has aesthetics functions. Concrete coating can make any concrete surface smooth and glossy and comes in different colors to go with any existing interior or one that you plan to renovate.
There are many types of concrete floor coatings. When you want to select the most suitable concrete floor coating you should choose the coating depending on the chemical exposure of the floor and the temperature fluctuations it has to endure. It is also important to know what amount of traffic the floor will take in order to select the most appropriate concrete floor coating. Before you choose a certain concrete floor coating, you should find out as much information as you can about the product. You should know things about its resistance to fading, its abrasion resistance, and its slip resistance. Because safety measures are very important, you should ask the manufacturer of the concrete coating how slippery his product gets when it is wet. You should not buy cheap concrete floor coatings because cheaper concrete coatings are often less resistant.
Not all products that can colorize your floor are concrete floor coatings. Acid and polymers stains are not concrete floor coatings; they are just chemicals that initiate a colorization process on the concrete. There are many advantages to high quality concrete floor coatings. These advantages include a good cost effectiveness bond to the floor you are sealing, durability (a high quality concrete coating will last you for many years) and easy maintenance. Quality concrete floor coatings release a low odor and they increase the safety of application by using low volatile organic compounds.
Concrete floor coatings can make any concrete floor look spectacular. Not long ago, concrete floors were suitable only for basements or warehouses, but because of the introduction of new generation concrete floor coatings, all that has changed. A concrete floor can become a true work of art by applying the right concrete floor coatings.
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Jeff Martin writes articles for many well known newspapers and is currently writing a book that is set to be released at the end of March 2006.
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