Importance of Surface Preparation For An Old, Beat-Up Concrete Floor

When it comes to industrial flooring installation, one of the critical steps to ensure its success is properly preparing the substrate surface. Try applying the flooring system on a concrete surface that is not properly treated and you will understand the significance of cleaning and readying surfaces for new coatings. Coating will not get attached to the substrate, floor’s strength will become extremely weak, and needless to say, its appearance will be unsightly. And the worst thing is, most of the hazards will become visible after installation almost instantly.

In this blog, we will explain the importance of concrete surface preparation. We’ve listed some points for this purpose. Let’s take a look at them.

• Getting Rid of Accumulated Debris – Old concrete floors will have debris all over them in hard-to-reach places such as cracks and dents. Surface preparation removes all the debris from the floor so that when any coating or product is applied onto the surface, it will bond to the floor much more strongly.

• Removes All The Stains or Blemishes – Although concrete floors look impressive for many years, especially when you take care of them, they eventually develop an appearance that is full of stains and smears. Concrete floors, for instance, in garages will develop all sorts of stains. When surface preparation is done, these stains and smears too get removed from the concrete floor. You will be surprised to see how younger your floor will look once it goes through surface preparation processes.

• Fixes Cracks And Dents – Concrete floors are known for their toughness. They are considered one of the toughest flooring solution. But when heavy objects get dropped on it for several years, when it experience heavy foot and equipment traffic for years, it is obvious that it will ultimately give in to this years of pressure. It develops cracks, chips, dents, etc. Surface preparation processes can reveal these flaws in a concrete floor and patch them to produce an even surface.

• Helps Create An Even Surface – As we mentioned above, if you do not get your concrete floor properly prepared before application of a coating or sealant, obtaining an even floor surface would become difficult. When you start applying a sealant or coat on an unprepared surface, you will notice that some sections of the surface will absorb the sealant while others won’t require it that much. Therefore, surface preparation is essential to get an even surface on which coating can be applied without much trouble.

If interested, you can get in touch with Extreme IFC to turn your old concrete floor into a good substrate for a new floor. Since we are an experienced, well-known commercial flooring contractor in Atlanta, GA, we can expect us to do a thorough job on your concrete floor.