McCord Contractors, Inc.

Scope Of Work

This customer selected an Epoxy Quartz system to replace their aged, worn and dingy epoxy floor. This system was chosen in keeping with the same type of floor system in the other areas of their facility as well as for its durability, aesthetics and resistance to strong cleaning chemicals and ease of frequent cleaning cycles. They also required their project to continue around the clock in order to meet a very compressed downtime schedule and return their production line back to service as quickly as possible. Of course as always, our process started by assessing and selecting the proper surface preparation needed in order to provide an anchor profile needed for a successful, long term flooring solution. For this particular project, we chose our HTC 800 HDX counter rotating planetary diamond grinder; an electric machine thereby producing no exhaust emissions in this pharma setting, capable of grinding and profiling an existing epoxy quartz floor in narrow corridors as well as large open production spaces.

After all surface grinding as well as hand grinding along the edges and corners of the floor was completed, we then made various repairs to underlying cracks in the concrete as well as uneven, damaged epoxy flooring which had occurred from heavy hand truck usage using both rigid and flexible epoxy and urethane repair products.

Now were ready to begin the new installation by first re-troweling new epoxy cove base with radius transition to the floor and thereby complying with their "no right angles" policy. The absence of right angles aids in their cleaning process. After all cove base is in place the double broadcast epoxy quartz system in installed with a final finish of a medium stippled clear epoxy finish thereby giving them both non slip properties while maintaining a cleanable floor at the same time.