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Walk In Freezer Floors: A Layer of Difference

Walk In Freezer Floors & The Compliance’s Necessary

Bright white & green doors help keep the cold in for these featured walk in freezer floors.Freezers walked in flooring seamlessly transitions this space from kitchen area to freezer floor area.

Before you begin looking for walk in freezer floors, you should be familiar with the Energy Independence and Security Act of 2007, most often referred to as EISA. The Act mandated tighter controls on such items as walk in freezer floors, so that their construction was created to conserve as much energy as possible. Thus be aware that not all walk in freezer floors are EISA compliant, which would result in possible fines when inspection times roll around. There are also local freezer floor codes that may apply. All of this is in addition to needing a compliant floor that meets with compliance necessary for the FDA, ADA, OSHA as well as the USDA.

As can be imagined, dealing with a company who is not up to date on the above alphabet soup assortment of compliance for your walk in freezer floors may lead to non-compliance headaches that can only be conceived of. This is why you should deal with a company that has an extensive history of designing walk in freezer floors, such as Silikal.

Imagine, if you will a floor that is totally seamless, thus it bonds to any existing substrates, including metal that is virtually impossible to separate. In addition, imagine walk in freezer floors that after installation will harden or “cure” in less than on hour? Then that freezer floor is perfectly ready for use! That is what Silikal delivers.

For decades now, countless businesses involved in industrial food processing have utilized Silikal’s commercial freezer floor designs for the custom freezer floors they needed. After all, those floor systems are state-of-the-art. Only Silikal can cure in the extreme low temperatures of your freezer without any damage. Also, by being totally VOC free that means that work can continue in other parts of your facility without any problems.

Previous freezer floor designs you may have had probably presented a hug problem when it came time for maintenance and cleaning, but Silikal freezer floor designs are absolutely monolithic, and closed pore. In addition, to ensure workplace safety, Silikal freezer floor designs are anti-skid. As such, a Silikal freezer floor can shrug off the impact of any heavy loads located on lesser regions of your freezer.

Surely too, you are only too aware of the harsh cleaning agents necessary to maintain your freezer floor as it should? Silikal’s reactive resins will yield tremendous resistance to those, ensuring you decades of great value for your investment. This is why Silikal has been the mainstay for freezer floors found in all food processing industries for decades now.

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Best Flooring for Commercial Bar?

The Best Flooring for Commercial Bar Design

A commercial bar floor shows off its best decor before the rush.A commercial bar flooring gives its best light display for dancing patrons.

If you own a commercial bar, you may well want to find the best flooring for commercial bar. If for example you own a swank new brasserie, you may be searching for something that represents a brasserie. That means that you will want design touches that emphasize perhaps late night drinking while listening to vintage soul and old rhythms as well as the newer alternative rock and roll. On the other hand, if you are in a swanky area of town, you may wish to tone down the music, and maybe have a soft feminine singer sitting at a piano creating a feeling of a laid back lounge effect with foods flowing effortlessly from waiters and waitresses that do not ever interrupt the customers yet are ready to serve them at a nod. The best flooring for either of those will, of course, be entirely different.

For example for the brasserie which will be louder and funkier, you may wish to have some kind of stone floor installed so that the rustic look of a brasserie flourishes among the stone. Stone floors are one of the best flooring for commercial bar because the floor then can be protected by Silikal’s full lifetime of the building non wearing flooring solutions. Imagine that brasserie’s floor covered with river rock that is amazingly beautiful, but then the floor continues upward into various fountains where water flows freely over the river rocks. Let’s face it; the ambiance would be absolutely extraordinary. Next to some of the fountains would be living plants that will keep down some sounds so that the music does not blare over the various discussions that the clientele is having with each other as they visit and drink.

Moving on to the swankier bar with the professional chanteuse crooning soft romantic songs, now there the best flooring for commercial bar may well be a wooden floor that has been protected with Silikal’s special floor coating sealant. Wood is after all, beautiful and brings a certain coziness to any establishment where people may gather. Once Silikal has covered the wooden floor with a shine that is awesome but also slip resistant, cleanups will be amazingly simple. Spilled beer or wine will wipe up immediately and if a tray full of food is accidentally spilled, it will clean up in the wink of an eye. What results from the use of Silikal over wood is that you now have wood that will never suffer gouges and dents from even spike heels.

Over that gorgeous wooden floor lies the reactive resin bar flooring that is not only durable, but will require very little to perhaps no repair over its lifetime. Your customers will dance on it without ever harming it, and a good time will be had by all, thanks to Silikal.

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Anti Slip Floor Coating Clear: A Mask of Protection

An Anti Slip Floor Coating Clear Surface System

Water beads atop this anti slip floor coating clear surface.A clear floor coating for no slip resistance protects these waiters and waitresses from fall harm.

Those who are in need of anti-slip floor coating clear type frequently turn to the Internet to find a product if they have slippery floors and have dealt with expensive slips and falls. The problem with this is that they are then faced with a very bewildering array of products, all of which are claiming to be the longest lasting, the least slippery, and the clearest available.

Granted slippery floors are ordinarily caused by something other than the floor itself. For instance it may have water constantly upon it, or perhaps there is some sort of grease on the floor, or sometimes it is not a constant wetting of the floor. For those particular instances, where the floor is only occasionally wet or slippery, that seems to be the most important reason for seeking of an anti-slip floor coating clear type. The reasoning for this is that there is nothing worse than slipping when one least expects to slip. Either way, of course you wish to find the very best available, that stands to reason.

There are many who will try to tell you that their anti-slip floor coating clear type actually makes little suction cups under the clear coating and other such silly interpretations of their product. Truth is, the very best available is Silikal.

With Silikal, it is truly 100% clear. There are absolutely no tinges to its product, no color changes, and no covering of the beauty of the existing flooring. Once applied it will look exactly the same with one important difference; it will then be totally anti slip.

In addition, because it is a Silikal product, it has a VOC rating of -0-! As a matter of fact, this flooring solution is also totally odor free.

Moreover, the product works no matter what kind of surface it is applied to. That means that you can safely utilize it on fiberglass, porcelain, vinyl, granite, highly polished marble, concrete and even upon ceramic tile. It will never, ever harm your existing floor and will continue to give you a non-slip floor.

Imagine, if you will, a work area where slippery floor issues are no longer existent? Gone will be those awful and sometimes expensive incidents of slips and falls. All of this is available to you with a Silikal product, for it is truly the very best floor solution product for your existing slippery floors.

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Aircraft Hangar Floor Paint for Safe Hangar Floors

Aircraft Hangar Floor Paint: A Paint to Protect

A paint application coats this aircraft hangar floor.Hangar aircraft flooring paints shine brightly after final application.

An aircraft hanger is an animal onto its own. What that means is that they are entirely special, and the floors are too. Aircraft hangar floor paint needs to be as special as can be also. For instance, the tires on the aircraft are going to be incredibly hot, thus the aircraft hangar floor paint utilized needs to accommodate those hot tires. Often the aircraft needs to be worked upon, and chemicals of all kinds are used. Occasionally those chemicals find their way onto the floor, thus the aircraft hangar floor paint must also accommodate chemicals.

Pilots will wish for the hangar floor to resist wetness too, as the aircraft is often quite wet when stored into the hangar, or needs to be washed to remove any debris that it picked up while flying. If the aircraft is utilized up North, it frequently comes in with snow on its wheels or dripping from its wings too.

Let’s face it maintaining a hangar floor is not an easy task. There will be dirt on the wheels too, and dirt blowing in when the doors are open to let the aircraft inside.

Although not necessarily called a floor paint, a Silikal floor covering system is what will work best for an aircraft hangar floor. Silikal’s product will actually chemically bond with your hangar concrete in order to form a highly durable protective film that will even be resistant to aircraft petroleum products.

In addition, cleaning the floor after Silikal is introduced into your hangar is amazingly simple as nothing ever penetrates the Silikal finish. Silikal, you see, is a totally seamless installation that is completely non porous. It is also pin hole free as well as being an anti slip flooring surface which prevents slips, falls and flooring slip associated accidents.

If and when tire abrasion occurs from the aircraft, this is considered unavoidable, but there is a Silikal answer to such tire abrasion. These can easily be removed utilizing the primary cleaner known as Silikal Topclean, which is then rinsed off with clean water.

With a whole array of colors to choose from, with Silikal you may design even a one of a kind hangar floor to not only suit your own tastes, but also become the talk of the other aircraft owners who will marvel at the extreme beauty and tidiness of your Silikal hangar floor. Call Silikal today for a free estimate.

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Floor Resurfacing: A Face Lift to Last

Floor Resurfacing Takes A New Look at Restoration

An old kitchen tile floor is scheduled for over night resurfacing.Resurfaced kitchen flooring coats the once old tile floor.

No matter what kind of business you have, floor resurfacing is no picnic. With many resurfacings, you need to close down your business for however many days it will take not only to install the new flooring surface, but for it to be ready to go back to work. In the business of flooring and floor resurfacing, this is referred to as curing the floor.

Also, depending on whom you hire, and what the product consists of, you will be asked to remove everything that might get in the way, and also to completely clean your own floors. It is important for you to realize that this cleaning ought not to be for you to accomplish, but it should all be a part of the floor resurfacing company to accomplish.

For instance, let’s assume that you own a restaurant, and the kitchen badly requires floor resurfacing. Perhaps long ago, it was a tile floor, but today, you are always finding tile that has popped up, because dirty water has gone under the tile, causing it not only to loosen but to allow all manner of food to decay below. Chances are your kitchen has even been cited for not being clean, but it was hopeless to try to clean it in the state it was in.

Thus, now you’ve shopped around, looked into numerous products, and finally you have settled on the very best product. The Silikal crew comes into your kitchen and begins work as soon as the restaurant closes for the night, and they begin to do meticulous cleaning, making sure that not one speck of grease remains. Once thoroughly cleaned, the floor resurfacing continues by having the loose tiles removed, and the areas bare of tile prepared so that the deteriorated concrete can be fixed. Then, at that point the Silikal primer is installed. What that will do is to provide the bond to the existing floor as well as become the foundation for the rest of the Silikal installation.

Once the primer is installed, the coving begins to be run from the floor and up the wall which will eventually give it the wonderful appearance that coved flooring can bring to a professional kitchen installation. Then the colored product is put onto the floor, followed by the topcoat seal. As amazing as it may seem, Silikal will then completely set up and be ready for the early return of the breakfast crew, as Silikal only takes one trivial hour to cure on a floor before it can be returned to work, no matter what kind of work will be involved.

There will be no more slipping, sliding, or falling in that kitchen, and clean-up will be a breeze. There will also be no more tiles popping up, and no more citations for not having your kitchen floors clean. Possibly best yet, Silikal will remain on that floor possibly longer than the building around it will, that’s how permanent Silikal is. So, no matter what floor resurfacing you must do, be sure and look at Silikal, you’ll be so glad you did !

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