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How to Speed Up Curing Time of Polyurethane Floors

Sometimes fast repair and quick return to service are the most critical factors for polyurethane floor installation. How can you apply all layers of a Sika floor system in just one day? How can you achieve standard floor application followed by extremely fast curing, to have polyurethane floors walkable within a very short time frame?
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Sika Coloured Flooring Helps Schools Set the Right Tone

The importance of colour when specifying flooring for education
Man standing on industrial floor covered with Sikafloor ESD flooring system
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Self Levelling Solutions Offer a Better Chance of Quality Flooring

Behind every quality floor lays an equally sound base – it would be impossible to achieve one without the other.
Car on outdoor parking garage made with Sikafloor coating system
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  • Car Park
  • Epoxy Floor
  • Resin Floor
  • Protective Coating

Wear Resistance of Floor Coatings in Car Parks

Everyday parking floors are exposed to mechanical stress. Deck coatings in multi-storey car parks and basement garages are among the most heavily stressed of such systems. Therefore, car park surfaces demand robust and highly resistant coatings. In this article you will learn about our Parking Abrasion Test which we have developed to measure wear resistance of floor coatings in parking garages.
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Floor joint in hospital floor
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  • Epoxy Floor
  • Resin Floor

Silent Solution to Hospital Noise is Right Under Your Feet

The World Health Organisation (WHO) says patients should not be exposed to noise levels above 35 decibels (dB)… or a loud whisper. But in recent years, UK researchers frequently recorded levels of 60dB to 90dB. Studies at Musgrove Park Hospital, Taunton, found noise levels on an average medical ward exceeded 60dB most of the time, whilst at the Newcastle Teaching hospital, nurses logged levels averaging in the mid-40s and peaking at nearly 100dB – as loud as a lawnmower.
Industrial floor coating with Sikafloor system for clean room areas
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  • Epoxy Floor
  • Industrial Flooring

Seamless Ingredients Prove a Durable, Hygienic Fit for Food Production Industry

Installing the correct flooring system is paramount to a safe and productive workplace, particularly in the food and pharmaceutical industries where the slightest shortfall in hygiene or health and safety standards can have catastrophic consequences for the company and staff concerned.
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  • Industrial Flooring

Don't Slip Up When Specifying a Floor

From schools to hospitals, shops to manufacturing facilities, the importance of specifying a flooring system which is seamless and has a non-slip surface cannot be overstated.
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  • Decorative Floor
  • Sustainability

Flooring that makes the grade for indoor air quality

The European Environment Agency estimates that bad air quality costs €630bn for healthcare and €169bn for lost productivity every year. When you consider that we spend 90% of our time indoors, the importance of specifying flooring and wall coating systems that take into account indoor air quality has never been more apparent.
Floor joint in warehouse floor
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  • Resin Floor

Downtime is a Good Time for Businesses to Choose a Resin Floor

In business, time is money, a truism which is particularly relevant to areas of heavy industry where plants and factories need to operate without interruption to guarantee consistent output.
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  • Epoxy Floor
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One Floor One Supplier One Guarantee

While every floor has a unique set of requirements, from traffic and mechanical wear to chemical resistance and temperature or fire resistance and rapid curing to name but a few, finding a solution that can meet each element of the specification can be a daunting task.
Dry shake hardeners broadcasted directly onto fresh concrete floor in warehouse
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  • Industrial Flooring

Floors for Industrial Areas

From warehouses to industrial areas to hospitals a perfectly flat floor is essential so when a floor joint is needed it has to be absolutely flat.
Application of Sika Ferrogard to protect concrete - Illustration
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  • Protective Coating

Hygienic Flooring and Coatings: Germs in the Workplace

Did you know that sick days cost the British economy a staggering £14 billion every year, and that 68% of employees accept that catching the office bug is just par for the course?
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Application of SikaScreed HardTop flooring solution
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  • Concrete Repair
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  • Industrial Flooring

Screed Evaluation Methods

A prerequisite for a sustainable and beautiful wood floor is a strong and dry screed. Therefore this screed has to be carefully accessed. The first source of information is the architect, engineer, or main contractor who will have all of the information about the build-up and nature of the floor. The second source is the screed contractor who can provide the screed details and if appropriate, any subfloor heating protocols. If, as so often in renovation projects most of this information is not available, there are a few simple methods that can be used to evaluate the screed.
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Fireman extinguish the fire with water
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  • Fire Protection
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International Standards and Classifications for Fire Testing

Sika’s passive fire protection solutions are designed to be able to seal all different types of building joints and penetrations, in order to help keep fire in defined compartments for a certain period of time, thereby allowing people to evacuate safely. Sika passive fire protection solutions comply with the most relevant national and international standards (including EN, UL, EAD (ETAG), ASTM, AS, Certifire), in order to confirm that they meet the highest fire resistance requirements and consequently can help save people’s lives!
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Steel metal fire protection coating black background
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  • Fire Protection
  • Protective Coating

Fire Protective Coatings for Load-Bearing Structures

Passive fire protection is a vital component of any fire safety strategy for buildings. Built into the structure, it safeguards people’s lives and limit the financial impact of damage to buildings and their contents. Sika provides comprehensive solutions for fire resistant constructions such as tunnels, commercial and residential buildings and steel structures especially. Fire resistant coatings for load bearing structures enable to build secure buildings.
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Man applying SikaScreed on floor
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  • Concrete Repair
  • Mortar
  • Industrial Flooring

Potential Screed Issues and Solutions

If the screed is even, strong and dry enough, then only mechanical surface preparation such as grinding and cleaning is required, before wood floor bonding is possible. However there are many situations where the existing or even new screeds are not suitable, and additional treatment is necessary before wood flooring can be installed. Sika has developed complete balanced system solutions for all of the different possibilities that may be found in these situations.
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Fireman extinguishing the fire
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  • Fire Protection
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Intumescence and Intumescent Materials for Fire Protection Products

Many passive fire protection products are claimed to be intumescent – what does this mean and when can a product be classed as intumescent?
Fire Protection
Industrial floor coating with Sikafloor resin cementitious flooring system in food facility
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  • Epoxy Floor
  • Resin Floor
  • Resin-cementitious Floor
  • Decorative Floor
  • Industrial Flooring

Design Tips for Hygienic Floors in Food and Beverage Facilities

A functional and purpose-built floor is key to a safe and hygienic production environment in food and beverage facilities. Floors that are hygienic, non-slip, easy to clean, and durable provide a safe and attractive place to work. Choosing and installing the right floor are critical to every work environment. This article looks at getting it right the first time — achieving satisfactory and long-term flooring in a food processing environment.
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Floor joint in warehouse floor
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  • Epoxy Floor
  • Resin Floor
  • Industrial Flooring

How to Design an Ideal Floor for Warehouse and Logistics Facilities

In warehouses and logistics buildings the concrete slab and flooring are critical to the effective functioning of the operations. However, it is often the perception that the concrete floor is one of the most straight forward elements of the project, and many times the overall attention paid to design and construction detail is less than proportional to its ultimate importance in the efficient operation of the facility. The expectation is that these large area floors must be constructed with lowest possible cost and provide problem free service year after year.
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Clean red and white decorative laboratory interior floor with female research technician at work
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  • Healthcare
  • Epoxy Floor
  • Resin Floor
  • Resin-cementitious Floor
  • Decorative Floor

Designing colorful floor in hospitals and other healthcare facilities

A well-crafted color palette can do wonders for a healthcare facility. The use of color and graphic images can align to the existing logo and symbolic color of the facility to achieve an overall visual aesthetic, while it can also elicit emotions and unique perceptions of space. It has an ability to calm or excite, can make a room appear smaller or more grandiose, or even trigger subconscious reactions. Color is the most vital, impactful and expressive design element in a designer’s toolbox.
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