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1. How to Reduce Cost When Using 100%-solids Epoxy There are many epoxy products available for coating concrete floors. Choosing the proper one depends on what you are trying to accomplish and what you are willing to pay. Often you need to fill holes to smooth out your floor. Sometimes you need to... (posted by Harvey Chichester 1 year 109 days ago.)

2. Repair Carpet Tack Strip Holes In Concrete Floors. When carpet is removed from over concrete holes and craters are left from carpet tack strips that were nailed into the concrete. Each nail when removed can leave up to a ½ in. wide hole in the floor. The same is true with doorway transition plates... (posted by Harvey Chichester 1 year 114 days ago.)

3. Now Encapsulate Contaminated Materials to Remedy Pollution Problems. Remediation of pollution can be expensive and technically difficult. Now many state and local pollution control agencies have found that encapsulating contaminated concrete is the most economical and long lasting solution for existing... (posted by Harvey Chichester 1 year 117 days ago.)

4. Coving Meets Health Code For Floors. Most health codes for kitchens, food storage and preparation areas call for the walls to integrate into the floors. To achieve this, inspectors want a smooth easy to clean transition from your walls into the floor. You can eliminate hard to clean... (posted by Harvey Chichester 1 year 117 days ago.)

5. Flood-proof Flooring Flood risks can be substantially reduced with the selection of new technology flooring and wall coverings using water proof, mold, and mildew resistant materials like epoxy coatings. These coatings have been used successfully in swimming pools... (posted by Harvey Chichester 1 year 117 days ago.)

6. Epoxy Floors Can Last Decades, But Only With Proper Installation After experiencing lifting and pealing of floor products, many industries have reduced their expectations for shop floor life to three or four years. This is unfortunate because epoxy floors have an intrinsic service period of a decade or more if... (posted by Harvey Chichester 1 year 117 days ago.)

7. Installation and Refinishing Concrete Floor Project: Tips and Tricks That Save Time and Money Here are useful tips learned during more than 40 years of installing epoxy urethane floor seals and coatings on Fortune 500 company concrete floors, as well as in basements, garages, and decks. These tips can help you avoid mistakes that can limit... (posted by Harvey Chichester 1 year 117 days ago.)

8. Custom Boat Strips and Designs Most custom work on boats is done with adhesive tape on products which work well resulting in straight lines. But these adhesive products lay on the surface and are often not flexible enough to produce the custom looks that an artistic temperament... (posted by Harvey Chichester 1 year 117 days ago.)

9. Removing Adhesives From Concrete Floors Anyone who has removed carpeting or VCT tile from concrete floors has probably suffered the horror of finding thick layers of adhesive smeared all over the surface. A realization sets in that your work is just beginning. Whether your goal is... (posted by Harvey Chichester 1 year 117 days ago.)

10. Train Like Fuel Efficient Interstates Highways While Reduce Cut Billions Construction Needs. In 1996 dollars, the Federal Highway Administration has calculated the "weighted rural and urban combined" costs per mile of interstate highway to be $20.6 million. But simple Interstate Highway rule changes combined with off the shelf technology... (posted by Harvey Chichester 2 years 75 days ago.)

11. Convoy Drafting could generate $50 Billion in US fuel savings each year. When you ride a bike on your own you need to overcome wind resistance it accounts for about 80% of your effort @ 32kmh (20Mph). If you ride behind something that has already disturbed the air, then most of the air that you pass through is moving... (posted by Harvey Chichester 2 years 77 days ago.)

12. Secondary Containment Areas Reduce Liability and Costs. Contamination caused by chemical and waste spills can be very expensive to clean up. The liability associated with spills is not limited to clean up. The testing required to identify if a spill has caused contamination can be very expensive and... (posted by Harvey Chichester 2 years 77 days ago.)

13. Making Walk In Coolers and Freezers Safe and Non Slip. Non slip cooler and freezer floors have reduced injuries and liability successfully for over 40 years. The long established and proven system for these floors was developed by 3M decades ago. With this system you use angular grains of colored... (posted by Harvey Chichester 2 years 77 days ago.)

14. Chemical Resistant Secondary Containment: Coating For Sumps, Walls, Berms and Floors. This specialized epoxy coating can create chemically resistant barriers over concrete, plastic, steel, wood, and even asphalt. To avoid liability and minimize impact from hazardous chemical spills secondary containment areas and sump pumps... (posted by Harvey Chichester 2 years 94 days ago.)

15. Make Floor and Step Surfaces Non Slip, Non Skid, Anti Slip, Safety Steps and Skid Resistant. Existing concrete, wood, metal, even tile floors and steps can be made non-slip. This system has reduced injuries and liability successfully for over 40 years. The cost analysis produces a customized kit of materials and step by step instructions... (posted by Harvey Chichester 2 years 94 days ago.)

16. How To Smooth Your Boat Bottom. Typically fiberglass boat bottoms after several years of use become scratched and gouged from rocks, grounding, and flotsam. A one-inch scratch can produce turbulence for 12 to 18 in. down your hull. Turbulence interrupts smooth flow producing... (posted by Harvey Chichester 2 years 94 days ago.)

17. How To Fair Your Boat Bottom For More Speed and Higher Performance Water turbulence eats up energy and can slow your boat down. It has been known for a long time that a 2-inch scratch on a smooth surface can generate turbulence for 10 or 12 inches as water flows over the scratch. If you have an older boat, your... (posted by Harvey Chichester 3 years 21 days ago.)

18. Better Boat Performance With Propeller Coatings Turbulence eats up energy and can slow your boat down. It has been known for a long time that a 2-in. scratch on a smooth surface can generate turbulence for 10 or 12 inches as water flows over the scratch. Just think how much water passes over a... (posted by Harvey Chichester 3 years 150 days ago.)

19. Repair Basement, Kitchen, Garage and Other Concrete Floors: Tips and Tricks That Save Time and Money Here are useful tips learned during more than 40 years of installing epoxy urethane floor seals and coatings on Fortune 500 company concrete floors, as well as in basements, garages, and decks. These tips can help you avoid mistakes that can limit... (posted by Harvey Chichester 3 years 255 days ago.)

20. Epoxy Floor Paint Projects: Tips and Tricks That Save Time and Money Here are useful tips learned during more than 40 years of installing epoxy urethane floor seals and coatings on Fortune 500 company concrete floors, as well as in basements, garages, and decks. These tips can help you avoid mistakes that can limit... (posted by Harvey Chichester 3 years 271 days ago.)

21. Antifouling Boat Paint Can Overcome Rising Fuel Costs Boats with fouled bottoms can use as much as 10% more fuel. This means that now, more than ever, you need to employ the technology that racing sailboats have been using for years: antifouling, non-stick, copper/Teflon boat bottom paint. These... (posted by Harvey Chichester 3 years 271 days ago.)

22. Conserve Energy with Fast Boat Bottoms In the mid-1700's you could make big money in the tea trade by being the first to reach England from the Far East with the new tea crop. This was a very big deal in those years as the Boston Tea party can attest to. The resulting competition to be... (posted by Harvey Chichester 3 years 295 days ago.)

23. Checkerboard Floors and Collector Cars Look Great Together You'll take the checker flag every time when you show off your collector cars on a checkerboard floor. Now the Internet can get you complete quotes with step-by-step instructions on how to put down the checkerboard floor you have always... (posted by Harvey Chichester 4 years 38 days ago.)

24. Filling Expansion Joints On Concrete Floors For a Smooth, Easy To Clean Finish. Expansion joints are placed in floors to allow for shrinkage as concrete cracks as it cures. The joints are often trawled into the floor or occasionally cut after the floor is hard enough to walk on. During the curing phase of the floor these... (posted by Harvey Chichester 5 years 53 days ago.)

25. Garage Floor Repair, Repair All too often homeowners and businesses try to repair worn, eroded and pitted floors with materials that crumble which ends up leaving large holes or depressions. Once the repair attempt fails the fix is often more difficult then the original... (posted by Harvey Chichester 5 years 350 days ago.)