CPC Floor Coatings Blog

If you’re in charge of maintaining a school building, you want to make sure you provide a cheerful, safe, and sanitary environment where children can learn, but you also know how tough kids can be on the facilities day in and day out.

Floors can be especially difficult to keep in good repair. Whether it’s because of tracked dirt, scuffing shoes, spills, or accidentally dropped items, it’s easy for school floors to start looking chipped and worn.

If you need to renovate part or all of your facility, chances are you’re looking for durable school flooring that is easy to clean, long-lasting, and appropriate for each space. The right flooring for schools often depends on how each area is used, from high-traffic hallways to classrooms, locker rooms, multipurpose spaces, and common areas.

Polished concrete and epoxy floor coatings can be economical choices for schools due to their longevity and durability. They’re also easy to clean and don’t trap allergens. Let’s look at the demands of different spaces in your school and how these types of flooring could help meet them.

Concrete floors are bound to crack over time. They cure, and then they settle, sometimes resulting in a cracked surface or slab.

Once a crack exists, it can be worsened by routine activities and common facility conditions. Moisture seeping into the cracks, exposure to oils or chemicals, poor cleaning due to existing cracks, and vehicles driving over the cracked surfaces will all aggravate cracks in a concrete floor.

There are many reasons why concrete floors crack. Expansion cracks, for example, occur when the slab doesn’t have enough room to expand or contract in response to temperature changes and stress builds within the concrete. Regardless of the type of crack, the important thing is that when it happens, you know what you should and should not do.

Are you looking for a colorful way to brighten up your warehouse, retail space, clinic or industrial facility? Does your production floor need marked pathways to improve the traffic flow of people and machines?

Most of us are familiar with simple paint for the former or colored tape for the latter; however, industrial floor coatings can provide an attractive color while also improving durability, cleanability, safety, and long-term floor performance.

When a facility needs a durable floor coating with a fast return to service, MMA floor coating is often part of the conversation. Methyl methacrylate, or MMA, is a resinous flooring system known for its rapid curing and strong performance in environments with low temperatures and limited time availability.

You’ve seen it happen before — a concrete floor that looks clean and solid but quickly turns dull, dusty, and hard to maintain. Maybe it's in a warehouse where forklifts have worn it down, or in a retail space where every stain becomes a distraction. 

When it comes to the milking parlor of a dairy farm, sanitation is essential. Achieving the level of sanitation and safety that a milking parlor requires calls for careful maintenance.

There are three practices that every dairy farmer should be incorporating into his or her floor maintenance routines in order to ensure that the milking parlor is a safe and sanitary place.

Concrete flooring isn't just for industrial facilities, factories, and home improvement stores. When polished, concrete floors take on a glass-like appearance that not only looks beautiful, but also holds up to things like foot traffic — even high heels and pet claws!

Due to its unique durability and aesthetic appeal, polished concrete flooring just might be the perfect flooring for your apartment complex.

If you’re looking to outfit a new commercial space—or upgrade an old one—your choice of flooring will be a major part of your initial expense.

But the initial cost isn’t the only thing to consider: if you choose a flooring type that’s not durable enough to stand up to customer traffic, repair and replacements will become an operational cost you’ll have to factor in every few years.

Carpet, hardwood, vinyl, and tile may be fine for department stores or areas that don’t have constant foot traffic. However, these flooring types are all susceptible to high levels of wear and damage in high-traffic areas. If you’re expecting a high volume of shoppers (or are directing all traffic along just a few major thoroughfares), you’ll probably want something that will stand up better.

If you’re looking for the most durable commercial flooring available (and would like to save money at the same time), consider starting with your concrete slab and applying one of these attractive finishes:

Are you an industrial facilities manager approaching the end of your company’s fiscal year? Do you need to use up an expiring maintenance budget, but don’t want to fall into the trap of wasting money on low-value projects?

If your facility doesn’t currently have pressing or high-priority repair needs, now’s the time to invest in preventative maintenance. If your building has a concrete floor, this is a great place to focus on.

Here are five reasons investing in concrete polishing or an industrial floor coating now can pay dividends in the year to come:

1. The right treatment can proactively protect your floor from long-term damage

Concrete is a remarkably durable building material, but it’s not indestructible. As it ages, concrete is prone to cracking, spalling, staining, and shedding. Treating your floors for the first time or replacing an old coating can go a long way in protecting the underlying structure.