Your concrete basin may be leaking, but there’s no way you can take it down to do any repairs. The whole plant is dependent on the cooling tower running. If you were to coat the inside you’d have to have several days to prep and coat and then you’d have to let the new coating cure before filling the basin. That could be days or even a week. 

But, if you could apply a coating that required minimal prep and could be applied to the wet concrete, you’d have time for that. With the advancements of cement chemistry and the variety of additives used in products these days, cement-based coatings are a real option for this application. Flexible cement waterproofing slurries can bridge cracks in the existing concrete. They are easy to apply and take little to no additional equipment. These products can resist up to 160 ft of water pressure and have very good adhesion to concrete. 

Active water leaks in your concrete can be more than just a nuisance. Everybody has them. That area that stays wet all the time, especially after it rains. As long as it’s not inconvenient or posing a safety hazard, most people just overlook it. “It’s just always wet, that’s all.”

But, the truth is, those concrete structures are reinforced with rebar. The rebar adds a great deal of strength to the structure. However, the rebar is also very susceptible to damage from corrosion. And, all that water brings the oxygen with it that drives the process forming rust and eventually concrete failure. 

Stopping the active leak is critical to stopping the flow of water. This is the first step to stopping the degrading of your concrete’s ability to perform as it was intended to. 

Coating containment areas in tank farms and loading areas can be pretty easy if you can get the protection you need with a thin film coating. These coatings are easy to apply can be easily repaired  when they are damaged. The key is in making sure your get the right protection for your specific chemical. Remember, to qualify for secondary containment, the coating has to survive long enough to hold the chemical in the containment area for 72 hours. 

Consult a good chemical resistance chart to make sure you’re choosing the best coating for your chemicals. Look for products that are made for “Secondary Containment”. You need 72 hours, so don’t waste your money on heavy duty systems designed to containment the chemicals indefinitely in some sort of primary containment vessel.

You need a versatile and durable flooring material for your demanding conditions, but, you’d prefer a product made from renewable, sustainable sources. Verdia has found a better, greener way to products the high quality flooring materials to meet your needs. 

New Bio-based technology has finally allowed for more environmentally friendly products to be created for your toughest applications without sacrificing performance. VerdeFloor flooring systems represent the next generation of polyurethane concrete technology. This unique technology gives floors exceptional resistance to aggressive chemicals as well as mechanical and thermal shock. VerdeFloor Bio-Based flooring systems utilize domestically produced soy bean polyols and environmentally friendly packaging.

Protective systems for concrete can be as simple as a thin film coating or as intricate as a multi-layered reinforced system. In most cases, you get the protection you pay for. More complicated means more expensive and usually better protection. But a higher level of protection often means its more complicated to install. Enter the “Polymer” concrete.

Polymer concrete is the protective system that doesn’t require specialized equipment, elaborate preparation between coats or any special skills. If you can pour grout or concrete, you can place this material. And, the level of protection is extremely high. They can be made slip resistant or abrasion resistant and they come in various bases resistant to most common industrial chemicals.

Use them to repair, encapsulate or totally replace damaged concrete pump foundations. They are also a good option for re-surfacing containment areas, sumps and trenches. Give us a call to find out which

Concrete floors in almost any industry take a real beating on a daily basis. And with all of the traffic in a modern operation, they have to be in service as close to 24/7 as possible. Nobody can justify changing the traffic flow for any length of time unless there’s no other choice. 

Fortunately, there are many innovative options designed to repair floors and joints that require only a minimal time out of service. Most areas can be repaired and opened back up to service in as little as a matter of minutes. 

Even with all kinds of options, most people aren’t focused on these repairs. Some think that it’s just something that’s too complicated for them to tackle. Others don’t think they have the time to do it. The truth is, most of the time, these repairs are done with whatever is available. Give us a call when you are planning to do your next repair and we’ll help you with the right materials, equipment and technical help you need to do it right, fast

Most of the focus of plant/mill management is understandable on the “Manufacturing” processes. Attentions are on improving productivity and equipment reliability. That makes perfect sense, production equipment is the heart of the machine that is the plant or mill. The facility or physical plant is there to protect the processes and tie them all together with a physical structure designed specifically to house and protect the manufacturing and supporting operations. 

The plant or mill infrastructure is almost always an afterthought. Permanent repairs to it are put off or substituted with temporary fixes just to get to the next outage only to be put off again due to some unexpected failure or priority that arises. 

Many of these situations will become chronic and could put a strain on normal operations or cause them to be adjusted to less than optimal levels. Left unresolved, these problems could lead to critical failures, safety issues or issues

Everyone wants to repair or replace damaged foundations, but they don’t want it to take any time. Keeping the kind of schedule the owner is expecting is critical to your project. However, doing that with conventional materials and methods is basically impossible. In the past, the only option was for the owner to wait for conventional concrete to gain strength. In most cases, they can’t wait the full cure time. So, those foundations hardly ever last as long as they’d hoped. 

As the contractor, you want to give your customer other options that could exceed their expectations on time and performance. You’re in luck. There are many options available for the repair and replacement for concrete that don’t require the traditional cure times you’ve had to schedule around in the past. Most of these materials are specially designed for the kind of tough applications you see on every project, so they can hold up even in the harshest environments.