LearnCoatings

  • Home
  • About
  • Where should I start?
  • Products & Services
  • Youtube Channel
  • Contact us

Working with White Epoxy Floor Coatings

January 14, 2017 By Akis Apostolopoulos Leave a Comment

White epoxy floor coatings are increasing in popularity. Retail stores, hotels and designer outlets are specifying seamless white floors for many new projects. Flooring companies are eager to take on such challenging projects, but they need to be aware of the difficulties that are associated with white floors compared to (for example) standard gray floor coatings.

White epoxy Floor in retail store

The main difficulties that I have identified over the years are as follows:

1. Detecting problems during the application phase. White coloured resins (while still wet) have a tendency to trick the eye and hide potential problems. Little bubbles, trapped dirt, spatula marks may not be easily detectable when working on a white floor. You can have all your workers inspecting the floor during application and no-one will notice the problem. The next day the entire crew is scratching its head and wondering how these little details were not visible during the application. Therefore good lighting and double checking of the floor during installation is crucial.

2. White epoxy floor coatings often have viscosity issues. In order to achieve this snow-white look in the coating, the product has been specifically formulated with whitening pigments. These fillers may make the colour of the floor look magnificent but they can be a detriment when it comes to enabling proper flow and leveling of the product. In fact over the years most leveling problems that I have experienced has been with white floors. Therefore it is important to keep this in mind during the application. You may need to improve the thixotropy and flow of the product with other methods. (One method would be to add solvent, which could however lead to more trapped air and bubbles – See point 1 above)

3. White floors are unforgiving after they have cured. Once the floor is put into operation it has a tendency to pick up dust and dirt immediately. Every little abnormality in the coating will become visible. Bubbles and trowel marks that were not addressed during the coating phase may now look like ugly black spots.

If you want to learn more about white epoxy floors watch this video below!

What about your experiences when working with such coatings? Are there any other problems specifically related to white epoxy floors that you would like to add to this list?

Get our Contractor's Equipment Guide for installing Epoxy Floors!

Success! Now please check your email to confirm your subscription. If you can't see it, please remember to check your JUNK folder

There was an error submitting your subscription. Please try again.

Powered by ConvertKit
The following two tabs change content below.
  • Bio
  • Latest Posts
My Facebook profileMy Google+ profileMy LinkedIn profileMy YouTube channel

Akis Apostolopoulos

General Manager at Ktisis
Akis has been involved in the manufacturing and application of industrial floor coatings for the past ten years. He runs learncoatings which is an online resource training professionals on the use of epoxy floors. He is also General Manager of Ktisis, a manufacturer of flooring and waterproofing coatings.
My Facebook profileMy Google+ profileMy LinkedIn profileMy YouTube channel

Latest posts by Akis Apostolopoulos (see all)

  • Epoxy Disasters: 7 Mess-ups that made me a better Epoxy Professional - January 14, 2019
  • Covering Floor Joints in Epoxy Flooring - April 16, 2018
  • Uncomfortable Phone Calls - March 7, 2018

Filed Under: Application of epoxy floors, Understanding Epoxy Floors

Get our Contractor's Equipment Guide for installing Epoxy Floors!

Success! Now please check your email to confirm your subscription. If you can't see it, please remember to check your JUNK folder

There was an error submitting your subscription. Please try again.

Powered by ConvertKit
LearnCoatings - Epoxy Flooring Training
Subscribe to LearnCoatings Channel!
Akis Apostolopoulos

Search

Categories

  • Application of epoxy floors
  • Beyond Epoxies
  • Decorative Epoxies
  • Troubleshooting
  • Uncategorized
  • Understanding Epoxy Floors

Recent Posts

  • Epoxy Disasters: 7 Mess-ups that made me a better Epoxy Professional
  • Covering Floor Joints in Epoxy Flooring
  • Uncomfortable Phone Calls
  • Surface Preparation in Epoxy Flooring: Explaining the different methods
  • 7 Things that I have Learnt from Managing Epoxy Flooring Projects
  • Are 3d Epoxy Floors for real?
  • Seven Tips on getting Awesome Self-leveling Epoxy Floors
  • Case Study: Constructing an antislip epoxy floor in a food processing factory
This website uses cookies. To learn more about our privacy policy click here

Copyright LearnCoatings © 2019 · Log in