Heavy-Duty Flooring
Heavy-duty flooring is a crucial investment for both industrial and residential spaces that demand exceptional durability, safety, and longevity.
In industrial settings, where forklifts rumble and heavy machinery operates, flooring needs to withstand extreme loads, impacts, chemical spills, and abrasion. Options like epoxy, polyurethane, and concrete with specialized hardeners are commonly employed, forming seamless, resilient surfaces that minimize downtime and maintenance. Non-slip coatings are often incorporated to enhance safety for workers, while chemical resistance ensures protection against corrosive substances. The goal is to create a flooring system that can endure the rigorous demands of the environment, promoting efficiency and preventing costly repairs.
Even in homes, the need for heavy-duty flooring is growing, particularly in garages, workshops, and high-traffic areas like mudrooms and patios. While the demands are less extreme than in industrial settings, durability and resistance to wear and tear remain paramount. Garage floors, for example, benefit from epoxy coatings that resist oil stains and impact from dropped tools. In homes with active families, durable materials like porcelain tile, luxury vinyl plank, and sealed concrete offer excellent scratch resistance and waterproof properties, making them ideal for areas prone to moisture and heavy foot traffic. The aesthetic appeal is also important for residential applications, so manufacturers offer a wide range of colors, textures, and patterns to complement the home’s design while providing long-lasting performance.
Waterproof Mechanical Rooms
Duraguard Mechanical Room Normal/Heavy Duty Flooring Solventless Systems are designed to provide tough, waterproof protection on interior and exterior concrete surfaces subjected to normal/heavy pedestrian traffic conditions and the maintenance of mechanical equipment. System thickness is nominal, 30-120 mills (DFT) exclusive of primer and aggragate.
Duraguard’s advanced single-component technology combines the best properties in performance, environmental safety, worker safety, and ease of application. DURATHANE 52 has tremendous tensile strength and elongation properties. The solventless formulation provides a low odor non-flammable material that minimizes safety concerns for both the contractor’s workers and building occupants. Liquid residue left in the cans will fully cure, eliminating liquid waste disposal problems. The single-component, one-product system eliminates field errors common in two-component resins with multiple products for the base, seed, and topcoats.
The Duraguard Mechanical Room Normal Duty Solventless System is designed using only two products: DURAPRIME 1000 VHS Primer and DURATHANE 52 Coating.
DURAPRIME 1000 VHS is a single-component solventless (97% solids) primer designed to penetrate and adhere to concrete. The extremely high-solids, no-solvent chemistry of DURAPRIME 1000 VHS makes it ideal for indoor projects and work in confined spaces.
DURATHANE 52 is a single-component, solventless (100% solids), zero-VOC elastomer. This product has both toughness of high tensile strength (2800 psi) and Shore “A” hardness (75 min.) and flexibility with an elongation rating of 600%. With these properties, DURATHANE 52 is flexible enough to be used as a base coat while tough enough to be used for the aggregate and lock coats, as well.
