The Very Beginning: Understanding the Concrete You’re Coating By Chris O’Brien, President and CEO of Rock-Tred Corporation How many times have flooring contractors installed a rigid resinous polymer flooring system just to get a call back months later stating that the floor has cracked?
Coating Failure or Client Flop? By Thomas C. Schroeder, Owner of Master Garage Corporation Our procedure under these conditions is to pin the garage above the threshold to minimize contaminate blow-in on a calm day. We then tidied up and departed the site, leaving instructions with the owner to keep vehicles off the floor for three days
High Grades for Sealing Success at Texas College By Ben DuBose In a region prone to extreme heat and flooding rains, proper insulation from the elements is essential. So when a nearby college called Western Specialty Contractors with reports of leaks in its main building, they understood the potential consequences.
Proper Parking Structure Maintenance: Catching Problems Early By Carter Pogue, Sales/Project Manager for Western Specialty Contractors Vehicles regularly entering parking garages leave water, oil, and other muck behind, not to mention salt and de-icers tracked in during the winter months that can corrode the structure’s concrete and steel support system.
Gold Star: Polyurea Coating Job Seals New Mine By Ben DuBose In the mining industry, gold cyanidation is the most commonly used process to extract gold from ore. But due to the toxic nature of cyanide, proper containment is a must.
Silicone Gives Silos Needed Recharge By Stephanie Marie Chizik Covered in moss and bird droppings, each of the concrete structures needed a facelift to look more visitor-friendly. Whitemarsh Foundation wanted a solution to the unsightly silos, and PennCoat was able to find it for them.
Green Light for Car Barn Floor By Stephanie Marie Chizik For the owner of specialty cars in Western Pennsylvania, who wishes to remain unnamed, a barn is used to house his collection — one that perhaps even Jay Leno would be proud of.
Flooring Contractors Score a Hit at White Sox Stadium By Ben DuBose When the Chicago White Sox needed help in a pinch, the team at regional coatings contractor Armored Floors stepped up to the plate and proved to be quite a hit!
Insulation for Flooded Historic Power Plant By Elise McIntosh When Owatonna, Minnesota, suffered a major flood in September 2010, the historic Owatonna Power Plant — home to a couple of Owatonna Public Utilities (OPU) and water utility offices — was right in the path of the watery destruction.
Performance Testing Electrostatic Discharge Floors By Steven Schroeder, Vice President for Dex-O-Tex division of Crossfield Products Corp. Conductive and static dissipative floorings and coatings are designed to provide protection from electrical charges causing harm to workers or products.
Attracting New Lessees With New Floor By Elise McIntosh It seemed like an easy enough project: Recoat an existing 2,600-square-foot (241.5 m²) pockmarked floor. And indeed it was, except for the extremely stringent codes and directives from the client, a pharmaceutical company that wishes not to be named.
Brewing a New Floor in the Midwest By Ben DuBose In the Midwest, beer rules. So when a large and popular Midwestern brewery needed a new protective floor coating in one of its production facilities last winter, time was of the essence.
Fountain Coating 90210 Style By Jennifer Frakes "The existing pond was not in good shape for a variety of reasons, not the least of which was age. It was not restorable so it was gutted, the concrete was removed, and new concrete was poured.”
On Tap at Brewery: New Floors in 3 Days By Elise McIntosh This hopping brewery has a super-stylish, 2,000-square-foot (185.8 m²) tasting room where patrons can sample its aroma-driven, flavored-focused craft beers. But in the meantime, they’d need to cook up a newly coated floor for the bottling/canning room!
True Grit: Recoating Tanks at a New England Wastewater Treatment Facility By Jennifer Frakes When it comes to wastewater treatment plants, grit tanks are important components that rid the influent wastewater of solids, such as road sand and other debris. “At the Manchester, New Hampshire Wastewater Treatment Plant, wastewater is dropped into large tanks with air diffusers that work to decrease the density of the influent.