Photo Courtesy of djcoregon.com When the summer sun turns up the temperature on the jobsite, it’s important to remember that the heat can and will affect how applicators install epoxy coatings. Read on to discover four tips to help you beat the heat this season! Tip #1 – Test the Gel Time Photo Courtesy of www.oneoceankayaks.com Understanding how the weather affects the cure time of epoxy [...]

  Photo courtesy of duvalasphalt.com The winter months can be tough ones for coatings contractors, especially those who install epoxy coating systems. Although epoxy typically is best suited for application in temperatures above 55°F, there are ways to successfully install epoxy during cold weather. Here are a few tips to help ensure that the epoxy coating application process goes smoothly even when the temperature plummets. How the Cold [...]

For many epoxy flooring contractors, applying a urethane topcoat to your flooring system is a must because it delivers outstanding durability, chemical resistance, and UV resistance for your floor. Before the topcoat is applied, the floor is usually vacuumed to collect any residual dust. However, vacuuming only collects large dust particles, leaving behind smaller dust particles. If the fine dust is not collected off of the floor, the finished floor will appear to have a non-skid finish instead of a smooth finish. Here is a trick to help technicians collect fine dust particles off of the floor before installing a urethane topcoat.

Cove Base Trowel If you are an epoxy flooring installer, cove base may be part of your every-day scope of work. After cove base is applied, it is usually smoothed out using a cove base trowel. However, a cove base trowel often leaves the corners of the cove base “square-looking,” which may be difficult to keep clean. After hearing from several certified Plexi-Chemie contractors and spending over 30 [...]