A Concrete Floor Coating Review for Commercial & Industrial Floorings

In performing a careful concrete floor coating review, it is important to look at all the offerings, and thus one can pretend to be looking for one’s own business rather than looking to perform a concrete floor coating review. Our first contender in this concrete floor coating review is a product known as epoxy paint.

Epoxy paint comes in a plethora of agreeable colors, so that regardless of the color scheme you desire, you can pretty well match it. Basically it is suggested for use where a high skid resistance most probably is not required, and also is not to be used where extreme mechanical abuse may be present. Generally it is made of approximately 40% epoxy, though a few have a little less, but what is important to realize here is that it will cause evaporative odors during its application. More important is the fact that generally two full coats of the product are recommended, and the curing time for each may run from perhaps 5 to a maximum of 7 hours. Generally these are presented as DIY jobs, meaning Do It Yourself, and you will receive a warning that this kind of product is absolutely not to be utilized to fill any holes, or cracks you may have in your existing concrete.

There are, of course, other epoxies available which may not leave any odor, such a product will shrink during curing time. It offers more resistance than that above, but it may be used to repair surface irregularities, and even fill in some cracks as well as holes. The obvious problem with such a product is that it too requires two coats to reach the proper thickness, and when the product receives the addition of quartz chips, labor time is greatly intensified. Also the curing time for this kind of product is a whopping 12 to a maximum of 14 hours. Color choices are exceedingly numerous.

Next on our list of concrete floor coating review is two-component aliphatic polyurethane concrete floor coatings. These can go further as far as their resistance to chemicals, high heat, high impacts, and heavy traffic is concerned. The main drawback of this sort of concrete floor coatings is the fact that once more, two coats are required, and each coat takes approximately 4 hours each to be completely dry and considered cured, but be careful some of them take up to 24 hours of drying time! While solvent based floor coatings require extreme care during application due to having VOCs (Volatile Organic Compounds), polyurethane coatings have no VOCs.

We now come to Silikal, which has no VOCs whatsoever, and can be fully cured within one hour of application, thus there is no costly downtime and it will last as long as the property it is applied to without needing reinstallation ever. Comes in all imaginable colors, and in addition it will retain its beauty close to forever. Also, it is totally non porous, slip resistant, safe & functional, and very hygienic. A concrete floor coating review would not be complete without mentioning the best, now would it?