Epoxy Paint Flooring vs. Everlast Epoxy Floor – When to Use It, When Not To
Epoxy Paint Flooring We get it. You want to pretty up your floor, but you don’t want to spend a ton of cash. An Epoxy paint flooring may seem like a great alternative, but are you really getting the protection you need? The truth is that a simple Epoxy Paint coating just won’t stand up […]
Rubber Safety Flooring – The Hidden Dangers
Rubber Safety Flooring – The Hidden Dangers Rubber flooring is one of the most popular safety flooring choices in the United States. But is it completely safe? We get it: rubber is cool. Rubber flooring comes in many colors and patterns. It’s usually long-lasting and eco-friendly. Most rubber floors are slip-resistant and provide acoustic insulation. […]
Pet Care Facility Cleanliness
Pet owners understand how difficult it is to clean up after a pet – just one animal is enough to require the constant attention of a conscientious caretaker. Imagine that animal and on a scale of 1 to 10, rate the difficulty of caring for it and then multiple that number by one hundred. That’s […]
Why Tile Flooring?
Why do restaurants and commercial food preparation facilities continue to use tile for their flooring? Simple: tradition. It’s a look that people are familiar with. But would these restaurants and facilities use tile if they knew what the real material costs were? Costs like the material’s tendency to stain, break, cause falling injuries when wet […]
Rubbing the Wrong Way: The Hidden Dangers of Rubber Safety Sheet Flooring
Rubber flooring may seem like the perfect fit. Yet on your kitchen floor it’s a recipe for disaster. Here’s why. Most rubber flooring is non-porous and durable. A popular choice for flooring, sealing and waterproofing, it’s marketed as the safer, less expensive choice. But beware of the hidden costs. Rubber, PVC, vinyl and other sheeting […]
Flooring Sanitation and Pests
Managing a kind of commercial facility is a difficult job and insects can make that job even tougher. Insect and pest infestations can impact a working environment in a variety of negative ways. These tiny vermin can spread disease and even cause a facility to shut down. The Centre for Economics and Business Research, along […]
School Flooring Material Options
The next time you step into a school or university – look down at the floor. Regardless of where you entered the building from, if that floor isn’t made of the proper material. It’s likely a Petri dish of bacteria and viruses waiting to spread from child to child. Even worse – if the epoxy […]
Medical Flooring Solutions
Medical Facilities Hospitals and other medical facilities stand amongst the most important structures in our society. For the patients that occupy hospital halls, the often-noticed details that inform hospital construction can make a very real difference between life and death. Consider hospital flooring. For patients and staff a safe and sanitary flooring solution represents one […]
Epoxy Paint vs Epoxy Floor Coatings
Everlast Epoxy Floor In our last writing, we explored the differences between epoxy floor coatings and epoxy paints. We described how epoxy paints are thin and brittle veneers best suited for decorative applications with no mechanical stress. Epoxy paints does not provide adequate cover for high-use surfaces that require more durable protection. Everlast epoxy floor […]
Walking Tour of a Restaurant Kitchen’s Epoxy Flooring
A tour of Everlast Epoxy Flooring installed in a restaurant kitchen. The kitchen manager loves it because it is durable and doesn’t have stress cracks like other epoxy floors do. And it is easy to clean which eliminates the odors commonly found in commercial kitchens. His kitchen spells like “cooking food” and doesn’t have that […]