Hello World! Welcome Friends! Epoxy flooring is very popular in industrial facilities and even in homes. It’s known for being solid, but how solid? Will an epoxy flooring scratch easily? Is it worth getting if you’re going to be driving on it or moving furniture? For everything you need to know about an epoxy floor, keep reading our tips from Trusty Tread.
What is Epoxy Flooring?
Epoxy flooring is a resin-based surface that is applied over existing concrete floors. It creates a smooth, seamless surface that can be a single color or multiple. You can add coatings to epoxy flooring like non-slip or smooth finish to alter the appearance of the epoxy floors.
What Are the Benefits of Epoxy Floors?
There are a number of benefits to epoxy floor coatings, all of which are reason enough on their own to have epoxy flooring installed in your home, place of business or your garage floor. The benefits are:
Epoxy Flooring is Resistant to Household Chemicals
Floors are subject to a lot of stress, from foot traffic to spills. One of the most harmful things for a flooring surface is usually chemical spills. Things like bleach and solvents can really damage flooring materials like wood or carpet. With epoxy flooring, though, chemicals are much less likely to cause damage.
Epoxy flooring is resistant to the vast majority of household chemicals, which is often what leads people to choose epoxy coatings or an epoxy floor over something like tile. When you are comparing epoxy floors to other materials, this property is often considered to be very valuable.
Quicker to Apply
When it comes to other flooring materials like concrete floors, epoxy flooring is much faster to prepare. It requires a small amount of curing time, but there are some epoxy flooring systems that are ready for foot traffic in 8 hours. The only flooring that compares is carpet, but the two floor coatings are so vastly different that they simply do not compare.
If you are looking to update your floor coating without having to move out or stop business for ages, then epoxy flooring is definitely a good move.
Easy to Maintain
Unlike sensitive flooring like linoleum or wood, epoxy floors are easy to maintain and require minimum effort. If something is spilled on the surface, there is no need for a dash to get some kitchen roll or a mop – the structural layout of the epoxy floor will keep out any liquid.
When you do clean liquids off of the epoxy flooring, be it when mopping regularly or when there’s been a spill, you will find that the surface is easy to shine, with smudges simply wiping off.
Water Resistance
Epoxy flooring isn’t completely water resistant, but unless there’s a flood, you should find that epoxy floors are able to keep themselves safe from water damage. Since epoxy floors are seamless, there is no way for the water to get in! This is a vast improvement to materials like carpet, linoleum or wood.
An epoxy coating on a concrete floor can help to protect the concrete slab from water, and as such is much preferred as a floor coating to paint. The epoxy coating provides color, just as paint does, but with protection.
Durable Floor
Epoxy flooring is much more durable than most floorings. Floors are subject to foot traffic, furniture movement, wheels, pets, etc., all of which can lead to scratches and dents in less durable floor coatings. Epoxy floors, though, are mostly scratch resistant. Whether just using an epoxy coating, or installing an entire epoxy floor, you will no longer have to worry about denting and damaging your floor on a daily basis.
Resin is solid, and so, for the most part, is scratch resistant. However, it must be left to cure completely before anything beyond foot traffic is allowed on the epoxy surface. Epoxy floors will need to be completely set before anything like wheels, vehicles or furniture is carried or pushed across the surface.
Great for Floor Heating
Under-floor heating is amazing. It makes the property feel so much more comfortable, and saves on wall space when it comes to radiators. With an epoxy floor, you can add floor heating systems to your property, as an epoxy floor will not melt unless the temperature is beyond 200 degrees.
This means you can have a high-quality heating system installed without worrying about damaging the epoxy floor or epoxy coatings. Alternatively, with things like vinyl floor coating, you run the risk of ruining the floor by merely turning the heating on!
What Are the Negatives of an Epoxy Floor?
That being said, there are some negatives of epoxy flooring. For example:
Contact Noise
Since epoxy floor coating is so hard, when people walk along it you can hear their shoes on the floor from quite a way away. This isn’t too big of an issue to a lot of people, but for those who want a quiet home, or who have a business that relies on quietness (bookshops, libraries, hospitals), it can be an issue.
Floor Feels Cold
Without under-floor heating, most epoxy floors are quite cold to the foot. This is not dissimilar to concrete and linoleum, or any flooring surface that isn’t carpet!
Requires a Completely Flat Substrate
Epoxy flooring requires a substrate in good condition. A wonky, damaged or cracked substrate can lead to the epoxy flooring having ripples within the epoxy. This can ruin the appearance of the floor completely!
So, Do Epoxy Resin Floors Run the Risk of Scratching?
You would be hard pressed to find a way to scratch the epoxy flooring. The material is known for being durable and scratch resistant, and that is why it is picked so often.
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