A lady emailed me asking about something she called a “poured floor”. She’s awfully sweet and kinda cute, so I’m inclined to help her out all I can. (-:
She describes the stuff as a “thick, seamless vinyl which extends 3 inches or so up the walls.”
She apparently saw it in a vet clinic that she visited. I believe it was used on top of a concrete floor, and extended up the walls a bit to keep moisture from getting into the framing.
I’ve never heard of anything like this. How about y’all ???
If the world didn’t suck, we’d all fall off.
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Just type "poured seamless flooring" into a search engine, and a number of manufacturers and how-to articles will appear. The floors can be hard epoxies, softer ureathanes, or filled with sand. Manhy colors and even patterns. Very easy to mess up the installation, and hard to rework. Best to sub out.
Yes -- one of my sons was QS for a company that does this in UK.
It's a commercial application, used for seamless finish in food prep areas.
Here's a link for you and there's loads more if you Google "seamless epoxy floors"
IanDG
Yep, around here it's required by the health code in areas like meatcutting rooms in grocery stores.
Should be plenty of sources available.
In the 70's there was a floor system called "Torgonol" (not sure of spelling). Friends of my parents had it in their house. To my recollection, it was a two part epoxy or other resin, that was poured on and allowed to self-level. It was rolled or brushed up the sides about three inches so baseboard wasn't needed (was popular in kitchens and baths). When the stuff was mixed and poured, little colored chips were broadcast onto the wet surface and the result was like terrazo. I'm not sure if a clearcoat was put on after the first one with the color chips cured. I heard that it tended to crack when put on conventional joists/plywood floors but was okay for concrete. I haven't seen it much lately.
The spelling is "Torginol", and it's still around.
http://www.torginol.com The High Desert Group LLC
One of my co-workers gave me a 5 gal pail plus the gallon or so of part B (cure/hardener) for one of these one time. Very expensive stuff- but I gave it back. The MSDS sheet sent me packing- it was a polyurethane with reactive isocyanate in the cure. Fine for a commercial installation or a garage shop but I wasn't about to use it for my basement floor while I was living in there...