Effective And Reliable Floor Protectors And Anti-Graffiti Coatings

It is very important to protect wood or tile floors from marks, scratches and gouges. Floor protectors prevent damage to surfaces and reduce the overall amount of noise. They are designed for both smooth and rough surfaces. They provide the best combination of stability, thickness, durability, softness, colour and adhesion to ensure long-term floor protection and keep the floor looking new. Floor protectors are essential to extend the life of flooring and avoid harm from everyday wear and tear.

The most common type of floor protectors is self-adhesive felt floor protectors. They are designed for the protection of hard floor surfaces, appliances and furniture. These products are also easy to apply. They are suitable for almost all types of floors and flat woven rugs. Floor protectors are an economic solution to protect the floors from marks and scratches. They aid in easy movement of furniture. Felt floor protectors need to be cleaned regularly to avoid lint and dirt build up and have a short life span.

Various kinds of hardwood floor protectors such as caster covers for wheels and bumpers, furniture tips for table and chair legs and pads that adhere to the foot of furniture to avoid abrasion and scratching. They are best suited for use on stages, gymnasiums,churches or wherever floors need to be secured from frequent use. They are usually soft to ensure no damage to the floor finish. With the use of tightly-knit fibres, these floor protectors are highly reliable and long lasting.

An anti-graffiti coating safeguards surfaces from graffiti vandalism. It creates an invisible, thin, and easy to clean surface that obstructs the graffiti from getting to the actual surface. It is an ideal solution to guard trains, walls, road signs, smooth concrete and other smooth areas and city structures, local public schools, transit stations, bridges, overpasses, municipal buildings, fences, schools, shopping plazas, restrooms and other business buildings. Removal of graffiti is not only labour intensive task but is also very expensive. Anti-graffiti coating creates a repellent surface that drives away graffiti from spray cans, paint, and permanent markers.

Anti-graffiti coating consist of two types, sacrificial and non-sacrificial. A sacrificial coating is sacrificed when the graffiti over it is removed. It is less expensive as compared to non-sacrificial coating and is ideal for people who expect graffiti on their surfaces more than once in a year. Whereas non-sacrificial coating are of permanent nature and remain undamaged after the graffiti from the vandalised surface is removed. This type of coating is quite expensive, but needs to be applied only once. Apart from these semi-sacrificial anti-graffiti coatings are also available which provide protection against graffiti more than once.

Most of the anti-graffiti products are waterborne and non-toxic. They can be easily removed with non-toxic graffiti removers. Anti-graffiti coatings are also very resistant to attack by hydrocarbons, chemical products, micro-organisms, and UV radiation.Most tagged surfaces may be wiped clean with a sponge and water-based Graffiti remover. The graffiti can be easily removed by pressure washing or hand cleaning. Nowadays environment friendly anti-graffiti coatings are also available. They are easy to apply and dry quickly. They can be successfully applied and are highly effective on masonry, porous stone, concrete, render, timber and previously painted surfaces.

Protect surface with Anti-graffiti and Protective Coatings

Graffiti removal is a costly as well as labour intensive task. Anti-graffiti coatings inhibit the graffiti paint from sticking to surfaces. Graffiti can be made on various places including fences, bridges, overpasses, schools, retaining walls, transit stations, rail cars, municipal buildings, shopping plazas and restrooms, etc. Anti-Graffiti coatings form a non-stick surface that deters graffiti from paint spray cans, permanent markers and paint. They can of two types sacrificial and non-sacrificial.

Sacrificial anti-graffiti coatings get removed along with graffiti. They can be based on wax, water of acrylic, but mostly are water based which is good for environment. Graffiti on such coating can be easily removed by heated water flushing. This also removes the coating and it has to be re-applied after every cleaning.  They are usually invisible and can’t be seen with bare eyes.

A permanent or non-sacrificial anti-graffiti coating does not get removed with graffiti. They are needed to be applied just once. They are usually costlier than sacrificial ones.  Anti-graffiti coatings can be applied on masonry, concrete render, stone, block, tile, brick, slate, fiberglass, metals, timber, porous stone and previously painted surfaces. Sacrificial anti-graffiti coating provide exceptional permanence and long service life.

Anti-graffiti coatings are resistance to UV aging and weathering. Water based coatings allows graffiti to be removed very easily without the use of chemicals. They can be applied in one coat; they dry quickly and also provide high protection from chalking, fading and peeling. They are usually non-toxic and do not pose any health hazards and meet the safety requirements.

Protective coatings and waterproofing is required by all including Commercial, Industrial and Civil sectors to protect ones build investment.  They are needed to be used in situations such as schools, transportation, public spaces, commercial construction, bridges & infrastructure, concrete protection, aquatic centres, etc. It helps the customers in improving processes, minimising outages and down-time, reducing costs, and prolonging equipment life. It helps in enhancing the performance of equipment and machinery.

Protective coatings repel undesirable pollutants and stop harm to the protective surface. They can be easily applies with normal painting process and are self-cleaning as they get easily cleaned with water. They can be applied to almost all kinds of surfaces and provides high UV resistance and protection. They provided protection from corrosion even in very harsh conditions. They are in the form of glossy film, which can be of any thickness as per requirement.

Protective coatings are designed for areas like Pump & Turbine, Bund Areas & Spill Zones, Heat Exchangers & Condensers, Storage Tanks & Process Vessels, Pipelines & Framework, Flooring & Safety Surfacing, Pylons, Towers & Transformers, Concrete Repairs, etc. They are available to suit one’s particular requirement and budget. New technologies are being developed in protective coatings to withstand new challenges.

Protective coatings are available in market for almost all kind of problems. They provide almost immediate return-to-service time and possess excellent crack bridging properties. They can be applied to components of all sizes and shapes. They are highly economical due to high coverage rates.

Looking for graffiti solution? Here are some protective coatings that can help you.

Within any city, suburb or even more rural locations, we will always come across incidents of graffiti, which shows an unpleasant blemish of an area. Many companies around the world are introducing anti-graffiti resolutions that could be helpful in providing long-term solutions to the problem of vandalism on buildings, pavements and passageways. One of the solutions available in the market is anti-graffiti coatings, which is applied on top of the paint that already exists or on the facades of the buildings. These types of coatings prevent graffiti paints from getting stuck on the surfaces of the walls. The process saves a lot of money for the building owners as this culprit costs hundreds and thousands of dollars every year. There are different types of protective coatings available in the markets, each and every have its own advantages and disadvantages depending on the severity of graffiti.  Some of them are mentioned below:

• Sacrificial Coatings: This kind of anti-graffiti coating is applied on a clean wall and when applied, creates a type of barrier protecting the wall from being vandalized. If in case the graffiti affects the walls, these sacrificial coatings are removed with the high-pressure washer taking the graffiti along with it. The materials used in graffiti could be paint, pen or even blood. When the custodial staff comes to clean this mess, they remove both the coating and paint leaving the plain surface beneath. This clearly means that in order to avoid continuous re-application, a certain amount of graffiti has to be tolerated before the coating is stripped-down.

• Semi-sacrificial coating: These types of protective coatings are called as safety shield. This product protects the pores of the wall surface. Usually paint, felt or other kind of staining is removed twice from the surface before the coating takes away graffiti with it. For cleaning a safety-coated building, a combination of solvent and pressure washing is used.

• Permanent coatings: These are most effective in the areas facing chronic vandalism like in city centers, schools, tunnels etc. where scribblings and doodles are common. The cost of this anti-graffiti coating may seem high in comparison with less permanent solutions, but down the road, this option may seem low-cost against what might spend on re-coating. Fluorine and Polyurethane are some of the ingredients used in these types of protective coatings. Paint will not permanently stick to these substances. In this method, some manual labor and simple solvent is required to remove graffiti leaving the coatings and the original surface intact.

Apart from these chemical products, there are several green products making their way into the market. These protective coatings are water based and non-toxic. Some of them work so efficiently that certain stubborn stains come away with just using soap and water. Other products might require a little more effort with a few chemicals. But sighting the trend in eco-friendly cleaning solutions, there are high probabilities that even solvents would get replaced by gentle yet powerful cleaning products.