Epoxy Floor Hardness

Besides an epoxy floor coating required concrete beneath it anyway.

Epoxy floor hardness.

The harder the surface of a coating is the more abrasion resistant it is. The key factors for epoxy are pot life thickness type of epoxy and the hardness of the final topcoat that will be exposed to the wear and tear of the traffic on it. Mostly all epoxy floor paints have a compressive strength much higher than 5000 psi. Shore a scale is used for testing soft elastomers rubbers and other soft polymers.

Epoxy coating allows the addition of flakes or quartz making the floor more appealing than with ceramic tiles. Shore hardness is a measure of the resistance of a material to penetration of a spring loaded needle like indenter. Master bond hardness testing is based on astm d 2240. Distinctly valued for their durability epoxy floors have a longer lifespan than many other floor types.

We use a shore d test which specifies a range of hardnesses. Commonly used hardness scales are a and d. Casting resins typical cure in 36 48 hours and epoxy resins cure in 12 24 hours. However epoxy resins will begin to gel in as quick as 20 minutes whereas casting resins may take upwards of 18 hours to gel.

Epoxy floors are free from the hassle of joints and grout lines eliminating chances of bacterial growth no compromise on aesthetics. 5000 psi concrete is about the hardest concrete floors you ll find 95 of the time. Concrete is the only material that beats it but it needs to be properly sealed and maintained. We test for this with a durometer which accurately measures the hardness of the surface of cured epoxy.

In order to measure the hardness the sample is first placed on a flat surface and the indenter is pressed into the sample. For armor chip armor granite the hardness ratings are 65 for the standard heavy duty topcoat and 80 for our military grade topcoat. Between our superior abrasion loss ratings and our superior shore d hardness ratings is why our epoxy floor coatings outlast all other coatings simple as that. Hardness of polymers rubbers plastics is usually measured by shore scales.

Because casting resins are typically capable of thicker pours they dissipate heat exotherm much slower than coating epoxy. We know that you have many choices when selecting a floor coating but not all coatings yield the same quality of results like epoxy coat. Shore a is used for softer materials whereas shore d is used for harder materials. The fact that epoxy floors lack aesthetic appeal is groundless.

Hardness hardness is a measure of how hard the surface of a substance is. The epoxy coatings are available in. Meticulously engineered and formulated by a team with over 35 years of experience in concrete floor coating our products are manufactured in michigan with top notch components so you ll only have to do it once.