Legacy Industrial epoxy floor installations NJ

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Legacy Industrial is now offering the ultimate garage flooring experience to homeowners and home builders. Famed for it's professional installations previously reserved for NJ's industrial/pharma customers, Legacy Industrial can now be had by all.

Since 2010 homeowners and home builders have enjoyed the professionalism and rock hard floors installed by Legacy Industrial's flooring division. Call now to see what all the fuss is about, 908-269-8300.

Concrete Acid Stain, ease of use

Several customers have asked about staining/dyeing concrete this week. They wanted to know the basics without searching half a dozen posts on the internet. Here it is, the very basics...

Staining Concrete Floors (adding color)

Pre-Pour
If you are planning a concrete slab project, indoors or outdoors, and you want to add colors consider adding dry dye to your mix. This is the easiest method.

• Add your powder dye to your bag mix
• Have your redi-mix truck driver add powder dye
• Remember to seal when done, it will protect your color from fading
  

Post-Pour
If you have an existing slab and want to make it fabulous...

• Apply an acid concrete stain (using a plastic sprayer)
• Apply an acetone dye (using an acetone sprayer)

Lastly, quick usage summary for these stains,

Acid Concrete Stain:
Order over internet, arrives at your house/business ready to be sprayed onto your slab(gallon form). Fill a plastic sprayer and begin spraying the slab, if hot moisten surface with water, add a mist of water if it is drying too fast (staining process stops if stain dries out). It will etch your slab sightly which will benefit you when you spray the stained concrete with acrylic sealer. Neutralize with baking soda once complete, allow to fully dry and seal. Be careful using this around people and metals, this is an acid, use appropriate PPD. CLICK HERE for complete instructions.

Acetone Dye:
Order over internet, arrives at your house/business in dry powder form. Go to hardware store, purchase acetone. Mix acetone with dry powder, place in special acetone sprayer. Apply to slab. Be careful not to bring acetone around ignition source, spark or flame, VOLATILE STUFF!!!
Seal once complete.

Concrete densifier

A concrete densifier is a chemical applied to a concrete surface in order to fill pores, increasing surface density. Chemical densifiers are used on polished and non-polished concrete to reduce dusting and wear; on polished concrete surfaces densifiers help concrete take a better polish and make the surface less permeable to liquids so the slab does not require sealing.

Polished concrete

Concrete polishing uses densifiers to achieve a better shine. Polishing works by smoothing out peaks and valleys in the surface; if the concrete is not strong enough, this abrasion will remove micro-chunks that decrease the surface uniformity and quality of shine. Concrete surfaces face two major obstacles to polishing: bleed water and pores.

Excess water in newly placed concrete rises to the surface. This bleed water carries with it the finest aggregate and laitance, making it much softer than the slab's core. It also increases the water to cement ratio, which further weakens the surface. Densifiers address this problem by binding to available lime in a pozzolanic fashion, creating additional cementitious material and strengthening the surface.

Concrete is by nature a porous material, with pores formed by water evaporation during curing. These pores interfere with surface uniformity, and make the slab more susceptible to staining from spilled liquids. The additional cementitious material formed by the densifier and lime fills these pores.

Densifiers may use various carrying agents to accomplish the hardening process, potassium, sodium, lithium, or other agents. For further information on concrete treatments visit: The Polishing Experts[1]]

Lithium densifier hardener can be found at Legacy Industrial, www.legacyindustrial.net or 908-269-8300

NJ USDA Epoxy Floors, selecting a brand.

The most notorious epoxy topping application is without a doubt a wash-down floor in a food processing plant. The constant wash-down cycle with water, detergents and in some cases steam will eventually break-down even the best polymer flooring material.
Once oils and detergents get in between the overlayment and the substrate, seperation begins.

When pursuing a product for a wash-down floor subject to thermal shock look for a urethane mortar or moisture insensitive hybrid like HD-501, from Legacy Industrial. HD-501 will shrug off the thermal shock and detergent. It requires no primer and will even bond to existing systems that are still in good condition.