At Epoxy Floors NJ, we believe a floor is only as good as the preparation behind it. Since 1988, our team has refined a rigorous installation process designed to transform vulnerable concrete into a high-performance, seamless surface. Whether we are working on a heavy-duty warehouse or a custom showroom, we follow these critical steps to ensure a lifetime of durability.
Creating a secure environment for your employees is the most critical responsibility of any facility manager. Bare concrete floors frequently develop dangerous hazards like slippery oil patches, large cracks, and uneven surfaces that cause serious workplace injuries. By completely upgrading your commercial space with our advanced resinous coatings, you permanently eliminate these severe risks and establish a highly safe, highly reliable walking surface for everyone.
Evaluating Hazards before your epoxy floor installation
To properly guarantee a heavily protected floor that effortlessly survives intense commercial traffic, the raw concrete must be properly treated. The absolute most common cause of safety coating failure is rushed preparation of the existing concrete substrate. We spend a tremendous amount of time carefully treating the slab, completely ensuring it is totally free of old sealers, dangerous grease, and hidden dirt.
To strongly prevent any chance of failure, we always begin the installation of epoxy flooring with incredibly aggressive mechanical surface preparation. We completely reject dangerous acid etching, relying instead on massive industrial diamond grinders. This heavy machinery thoroughly profiles the hard concrete, safely opening its microscopic pores to boldly allow the thick moisture primer to securely and permanently bond.
Removing Old Coatings during the installation of epoxy flooring
Aggressive industrial diamond grinding is absolutely necessary to establish a deeply penetrating mechanical bond between the raw slab and the thick solid resin layers. As the powerful grinders completely strip away the smooth top layer, they heavily create a highly specific, rough texture. This textured surface safely allows the specialized liquid coatings to deeply penetrate the concrete, fiercely preventing future peeling hazards.
By successfully grinding away the incredibly weak, highly contaminated top layer of the facility floor, we successfully reveal a perfectly pristine, rock-solid foundation. This essential mechanical process heavily ensures that the thick industrial coatings have a perfect surface to tightly grip onto. Proper diamond grinding is truly the single most important secret to ensuring your new safety floor will survive heavy commercial use.
Repairing Deep Cracks in your epoxy floor installation
Our highly certified commercial technicians will never apply thick premium solid coatings over a severely cracked or heavily damaged foundation. During the vital preparation phase of your complete epoxy floor installation, we intensely inspect the entire work area for hidden cracks, deep pits, or rough spalls. Every single structural flaw must be permanently repaired to strongly guarantee a flawlessly level finish.
We safely utilize highly advanced, heavy-duty high-strength resinous fillers to seamlessly and permanently repair these dangerous structural imperfections. By meticulously patching every large crack and thoroughly filling every deep void, we fully restore the immense structural strength of the concrete slab. This absolute mandatory repair step safely guarantees the final seamless surface is totally safe, incredibly flat, and perfectly ready for the base coat.
Blocking Dangerous Vapor in the installation of epoxy flooring
Hidden moisture vapor transmission rapidly coming up through the porous concrete slab is an incredible threat to any thick solid system. This terrible moisture leads to rapid outgassing, which predictably causes massive surface bubbles and total coating delamination that creates tripping hazards. To completely neutralize this severe threat, we always apply a highly specialized moisture-vapor barrier primer to heavily seal the floor.
This incredibly advanced, top-tier moisture-mitigating primer acts as a permanent, solid shield against highly dangerous and destructive hydrostatic pressure. Once the primer safely and completely cures, it tightly locks out dampness and safely keeps all trapped air firmly inside the concrete substrate. This absolutely critical step fiercely protects your flooring investment, heavily guaranteeing the thick solid resin layers remain flawlessly bonded and safe.
Applying Impact Resistance in your epoxy floor installation
As soon as the necessary moisture barrier is perfectly and solidly set, we immediately apply a heavy, one hundred percent solids industrial base coat. This incredibly thick body coat heavily creates the essential structural thickness and safely delivers absolutely phenomenal impact resistance. It successfully forms the incredibly durable core of the flooring system, heavily engineered to handle the harshest industrial abuse without cracking.
Because this massive base coat contains absolutely zero shrinking solvents, it safely cures into a solid, completely impenetrable layer of heavy protective armor that does not lose any thickness. It fully ensures your beautiful seamless floor can flawlessly withstand the heaviest manufacturing machinery, non-stop forklift traffic, and brutal daily wear. This thick layer of pure liquid resin powerfully provides extreme safety and durability.
Customizing Safety Features for the installation of epoxy flooring
Depending on your commercial facility's exact heavy-duty operational needs, we proudly offer several highly durable thick solid finishes to heavily protect your industrial workers.
- High Traction Surfaces: We expertly embed heavy-duty aluminum oxide directly into the topcoat to heavily ensure a safe, highly slip-resistant commercial walking surface.
- Bright Safety Lines: We utilize incredibly vibrant, high-gloss industrial pigments to clearly designate safe pedestrian walkways and highly dangerous forklift traffic zones.
- Superior Lighting: We beautifully create an incredibly bright, highly reflective solid surface that massively improves ambient lighting and significantly reduces workplace accidents.
Final Conclusion of your epoxy floor installation
Our incredibly advanced, totally meticulous installation process heavily ensures you quickly receive an exceptionally safe, thick, easy-to-clean floor firmly built to effortlessly last for decades. By heavily prioritizing exact diamond grinding, aggressive moisture mitigation, and utilizing pure solid resins, we fully guarantee a flawless finish. Your dangerous bare concrete will be permanently transformed into a highly secure, highly functional, resilient industrial masterpiece.