Concrete floor slabs contain excess moisture that can damage many types of floor finishes. To address this problem, manufacturers have developed products aimed at mitigating the moisture in concrete. However, not all these products are suited to...
Hosted by Chapman Construction, SGH's Emily Hopps recently gave a presentation on flooring failures. Multiple failures of many different floor finishes applied to concrete floor slabs have become more common over the past several...
Abstract: Despite increased awareness of the problems, floor finishes on concrete slabs fail all too often. However, we have learned a lot over the last 10 years, and thoughtful design and construction practices can go a long way toward limiting...
Abstract: Many commercial and institutional buildings are designed for urban settings that have constrained sites where service areas are exposed to weather or wash-down are located over occupied spaces below. The design of the wearing surface...
Abstract: Recently, lightweight concrete has been implicated as the primary culprit in moisture-related failures of adhered flooring systems. Although fast-track construction techniques and government-mandated changes in flooring adhesives also...
Over the years, we have had a number of call-backs on projects where our epoxy coating applications had developed fluid-filled blisters. When we had these problems investigated, we found that osmosis was most likely the...