How to protect concrete flooring?

With the advent of fashion for loft type interiors concrete floors have gained access to the showrooms. They replace parquet floors, laminated planks, ceramic tiles in kitchens and bathrooms. Well put down and preserved concrete flooring creates a smooth, uniform surface with high strength and resistance to dirt.

Concrete gives modern look to interiors, but due to its nature it perfectly adapts to other design elements. It is the material giving great arrangement possibilities. We can create cold interiors with it, gray surfaces which blend perfectly with glass and steel accents.

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Thanks to the use of special paints and resins you can give color to flooring. Resins also give concrete surfaces original shine. Such floors are easy to keep clean, highly durable and aesthetically pleasing.

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Each concrete flooring requires protection, as in the raw state it is absorbent, susceptible to scratches and abrades itself causing dustiness of the room. An ideal preparation for protecting concrete flooring is an acrylic paint for concrete substrates Śnieżka Concrete-floor.

This is a paint designed for decorative and protective painting of flooring and concrete structures. It is a suspension of pigments and fillers in the water dispersion of acrylic resin with higher resistance to abrasion. Thanks to its application concrete flooring which is exposed to intensive wear becomes extremely robust.

Concrete flooring ready for impregnation should be dry, free from dust, grease and other pollutants.New floors and the ones repaired with fresh cement mortars can be covered with protective layer only after approximately 4 weeks.

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For the first concrete floor painting use paint diluted with addition of water in the quantity of 20%. Painting should be carried out at an ambient temperature of +10C to +30C. Apply the paint on the ground with a brush, roller or by spray. It is recommended to apply the first layer with a brush, thoroughly spreading it on concrete surface.

Impregnate the ground twice at intervals of several hours. Where human activity is extremely intensified and floor exposed to abrasion, it is recommended that the floor should even three times be protected.

The concrete flooring is an extremely practical solution.The cold of concrete, which has so far acted as an deterrent on interior walls application, today is eliminated by floor heating. The advantages of this material over its disadvantages makes it more and more often chosen by potential customers.

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