What is epoxy floor?
There are different reasons why the term ” epoxy floor ” is hard to define. One of the main reasons are the differences in definitions given by epoxy resin manufacturers and contractors. It has often been proved that a certain type of epoxy floors after laying does not have the expected characteristics stated by manufacturers. It happens simply because the floor has not been layed only and strictly by following the manufacturers’ instructions but by combining the manufacturers’ instructions with procedures experienced by contractors.Therefore one definition of epoxy floors will be given by manufacturers of epoxy resins and another one by epoxy contractors A general definition of epoxy floors might be: “Multiple epoxy layers placed on a floor surface regardless of the kind of epoxy resins applied, provided that total thickness of all layers applied is at least 2 mm.” Other epoxy floors consisting of less than three layers, the total thickness of the existing layers being less than 2mm m