Learn How to Fix Epoxy Mistakes Without Adding Extra Time

When you are undertaking an industrial floor coating project, you want to ensure success from the very beginning by following epoxy flooring requirements. Being prepared for possible challenges along the way will allow for a smooth project completed on time and without added expenses.

Sometimes, even though you’ve been careful about securing the appropriate materials and taking the necessary steps, problems occur. One of these is amine blush, a chemical reaction between naturally occurring carbon dioxide and humidity levels in the coating project area. It’s important to know how to fix epoxy mistakes and still get the most out of your flooring. The result is a waxy or oily haze on the surface of the flooring. While amine blush can be corrected, having to do so adds time to a flooring job, which in turn can delay the completion of the overall project and thus affect the revenue of the building owner. As you can see, amine blush creates a domino effect you’ll want to avoid and learn how to fix epoxy mistakes.

But if you’ve done everything right, how can amine blush occur? Factors that appear to be out of your control play a key role in the development of amine blush. Actually, you can control these underlying factors if you are aware of them before you begin an epoxy floor coating project.

Monitoring and maintaining proper moisture and humidity levels in the area of the project is of the utmost importance, since humidity is a major contributor to amine blush. Monitoring carbon dioxide levels is also crucial. Did you know that the combustion heating system you use to dry the coating may be emitting large amounts of CO2 and thus allowing amine blush to occur? Avoiding such heating systems can greatly reduce the chances of this happening. Other ways to avoid amine blush include ensuring proper mix ratio, using slower-curing floor coatings (if time is not an issue) and using an inexpensive colorimetric amine blush test kit between floor coats.

PIP has created a technical whitepaper outlining potential epoxy floor coating problems and how to fix epoxy mistakes. Armed with this information, you can take the precautionary steps that will lead to a successful epoxy floor coating project.

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Sean Walsh

Marketing & Product Development Manager at Protective Industrial Polymers

Sean Walsh is the Marketing & Product Development Manager of Protective Industrial Polymers, a company that manufactures high-performance resinous floor coatings for industrial manufacturing environments, which has a keen focus on developing unique solutions for managing electrostatic, microbial, chemical, explosion and safety risk concerns. He has over 15 years of marketing and sales support experience in the protective coatings industry. Prior to that, Sean worked in the construction industry, specializing in contract and project management for commercial and industrial floor and roof projects. Sean enjoys working closely with PIP’s sales and management group to develop and market new flooring products and systems to address end-user’s unique requirements. You can follow Sean on LinkedIn, email him at swalsh@protectpoly.com, or contact Protective
Industrial Polymers at 866-361-3331.