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.
