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Weather Ready Floors: A Guide to Prepping Your Commercial Space.

As the seasons change, it’s crucial for businesses to prepare their commercial spaces for inclement weather. One often overlooked aspect is the impact weather can have on your floors. From rain-soaked entryways to icy sidewalks, addressing these concerns in advance can prevent accidents and costly damages. In this blog, well explore practical tips for prepping your commercial floors to weather any storm.

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Efficient Furniture Moving in Commercial Spaces:

As a commercial flooring contractor, one of the crucial aspects of our job is ensuring a smooth and efficient process when it comes to furniture moving in commercial spaces. From planning and coordination to protecting the flooring surfaces, our expertise plays a significant role in minimizing disruptions and preserving the integrity of the flooring. In this blog post, we will delve into the best practices and considerations for furniture moving from our perspective as commercial flooring contractors. 

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Problems with Bare Concrete Floors:

Bare concrete floors might often be the cheapest option, but it can lead to a whole list of problems that could incur more costs, hassle, and lost time, rather than just installing a coating in the first place. To elaborate, here are just a few issues that could occur when choosing to have an uncoated concrete floor. 

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Prepping your floors for Thanksgiving!

With Thanksgiving tomorrow, family and friends will be gathering to celebrate together, you might be wondering how to protect your floors from any extra wear and tear. Holidays at home are a wonderful thing, but they can also be hard on your floors, you'll want to make sure you take a few necessary precautions to protect your floors during the holidays. Here are a few tips nad tricks that will help keep your floors looking great during and after the holiday season. 

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Moisture Mitigation Vs Moisture tolerant Adhesives:

It is a very common mistake people make when it comes to mositure protection, people often think that mositure mitigation systems and moisture tolerant adhesives have the same job. Repeatedly moisture related floor covering systems continue to fail at an unacceptable rate. Moisture issues are not just limited to slab on-ground construction but can also occur when floor coverings are installed over suspended concrete slabs as well. When moisture issues occur, it is serious and will affect all parties and can become very costly. Modern test methods were invented to prevent distress and failure by testing the concrete’s dryness before any floor coverings or coatings installed over the substrate. Concrete in-situ relative humidity testing has become the most popular method to use in the United States and is the most accurate when it comes to testing the concretes dryness. It also is the most overlooked part of construction; people don’t want to spend the money or just don’t have the knowledge and history of testing concrete slabs.

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Self-Leveling

Self-leveling is one of the most important factors that goes into prepping a floor for change. If you notice your floors need some help, for example cracking, various elevations, or is just uneven or sunken, then this is the solution for you. They are long lasting and low maintenance compared to other types of floors, while easily withstanding heavy foot traffic.

Weather Ready Floors: A Guide to Prepping Your Commercial Space.
1/12/2024 12:03 PM | HTC Commercial Flooring
Efficient Furniture Moving in Commercial Spaces:
7/7/2023 8:32 AM | HTC Commercial Flooring
Problems with Bare Concrete Floors:
2/16/2023 3:01 AM | HTC Commercial Flooring
Prepping your floors for Thanksgiving!
11/23/2022 10:16 AM | HTC Commercial Flooring
Moisture Mitigation Vs Moisture tolerant Adhesives:
9/16/2022 9:53 AM | HTC Commercial Flooring
Self-Leveling
8/3/2022 10:39 AM | HTC Commercial Flooring