Polished Concrete Flooring Is Clean, Green and Cost-Effective
Jun/090
Medrad, an affiliate of Bayer AG, based in Pittsburgh, Pa specifies polished concrete for thier facilities to reflect on the company’s commitment to environmental consciousness. Read feature in Pharmaceutical Manufacturing Magazine .
Ferrari designers speaking about hotel flooring
Feb/090
Pininfarina is the Italian firm that designs the Ferrari sports car. They are also pulling the carpet off the floors in the hotel rooms of the Keating Hotel they designed recently in San Fransisco.
In an email, Francesco Fiordelisi, of Pininfarina explained, that without the carpet, the hotel room floors have the “edge of industrial design”. And from a more practical point of view, he says, “What takes the most time in terms of cleaning a room? If the room has carpeting, it is the floor. And, carpet often looks dirty.”
Industrial Distribution Group discusses flooring
Feb/090
Industrial Distribution Group’s Mark Garmon, discussing his flooring installation.
“We have a 82,000 ft.² distribution center. We built this building 10 years ago. We had a Rustoleum epoxy floor coating. And it was delaminating. We had a housekeeping, safety, and appearance issue with that floor.”
“Then, this facility was hit with a tornado in May.”
“We spent a lot of time investigating different floor systems. We toured facilities around North Carolina and looked at different applications. We thought that polished concrete best fit our environment. From an appearance, and safety, and operational issue”
“The system was finished in October, 2008.”
“Before we had an epoxy sand grout system. The maintenance on that… we scrubbed it weekly. The problem we had was de-lamination came up. So we had an issue with safety. At that level, you have to shut your operation down, prep of floor. It’s a huge cost.”
“The cost difference between the old maintenance and the new maintenance, I would say that it is somewhere about 75% less cost.”
“We actually had four different competitors come in and do a test patch. We had them each remove epoxy on a 10 x 10 square. We got to evaluate their process and compared products.”
“We choose QuestMark over the others. First, I would say the cost. And the finished product. They did great job. And, I think their knowledge of the process. QuestMark did exactly what they outlined in their quote; and it was to the tee. Good job.”
Cleaning and Maintenance Magazine polished concrete maintenance
Nov/080
A polished concrete floor surface will take to “green cleaning” more easily than others and, of course, requires significantly less maintenance to stay shiny. It’s one reason why retailers are replacing vinyl composition tile with polished concrete floors. Cleaning & Maintenance Magazine published my article about the care of PC.
“You can actually walk up to the showroom and see the blue sky shining in the floor, that’s how shiny it is,” says Richard Smith, Ag-Pro’s general service manager in Arkansas, who installed the environmentally friendly floor in two of their John Deere showrooms.
Concrete floors can cost half as much to maintain as vinyl composition tile (VCT) because VCT requires the laborious process of stripping the old wax off and then hours of buffing and shining the new wax.
“Over half of the floors we install are going from tile to polished concrete,” says Joseph Urbanic, president of QuestMark Flooring.
Here’s the link to the full article in CMMonline.
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Con-way Freight shop floor
Oct/080
Successful Dealer magazine published a short piece about Con-Way Freight using polished concrete flooring. Before the new flooring went in, the truck repair shop was replacing the floors about every three years just from normal wear and tear, and so Con-Way was looking for a more long-term solution.
Ed Arciniaga, construction manager for Con-Way, worked with QuestMark Flooring to create it’s polished concrete floor.
According to Arciniaga, “The floor looks great and is easy to maintain. And all we are doing is using the floor scrubber to keep it clean.”
The floor is in the 5,000-sq.-ft. maintenance facility and was completed in few days.
The story is in Successful Dealer magazine at bottom of the website page.