A customer writes:
“We have a dairy processing and packaging facility that was built circa 1994. At the time of construction we chose to install a flooring system which was vinyl ester based with fiberglass mat. The floor has held up quite well in areas where it had a good bond. The failures we have seen are in areas that covered either an expansion joint or control joint in the concrete. In these areas the flooring has delaminated from the concrete. Where possible we have made a clean cut through the flooring to an area where we had a good bond and left the concrete exposed. Other failure areas are around floor drains. We have made repairs with quick curing epoxies in the past but these don’t seem to bond well to the existing vinyl ester flooring.
“Having a manufacturing facility with only one down day limits our ability to make substantive repairs. During a search for low or no VOC flooring systems I you folks.”
I have personally made many thousands of square feet of floor repairs that sounds exactly like the issues and conditions that you are describing.
Here is what I did to permanently resolve the issue, at least in the patched areas.
- Cut back the edges of the delaminated areas back to a point where the vinyl ester is well attached.
- Prep the concrete under the failed area and the edges of the old material – epoxy.com/surfaceprep.aspx.
- Prime with Epoxy.com Product #12 – epoxy.com/12.aspx
- Install a trowel coat of Epoxy.com Product #630 – epoxy.com/633.aspx and
- Epoxy Mortar Blend aggregate #82 Mortar Blend Aggregate
- Allow to cure hard to the touch and cool.
- Glaze with a neat coat of Epoxy.com Product #633 with optional Anti-skid – http://epoxy.com/non-skid-additive-polycarbonate-aggregate.aspx
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