Project Spotlight: Mayo Clinic
PRIME COAT EXCEEDS EXPECTATIONS, NO MATTER THE COMPLICATIONS The problem: Mayo Clinic needs six padded Patient Seclusion Rooms that are not just functional but aesthetically pleasing. The solution: Prime Coat worked directly with the project architect, BWBR, to provide a specification meeting the durability and decorative needs of the Mayo [...]
Do Your Customers a Favor
From healthcare and fitness, to commercial and industrial, we do it all! Architects choose Prime Coat for one-of-a-kind floor coating benefits such as: EPA registered Germ-Guard, anti-microbial protection Unmatched 3-Year Warranty (Labor and Materials) Custom design finishes and textures Engineering support for highly technical projects And more! The best architects [...]
Grinding Is Not Shot Blasting!
In today’s concrete preparation world large planetary grinding has largely taken the place of shot blasting even when specifications and standards require a shot blasted profile. Recently, I was on a job site where a nationally recognized manufacturer of moisture vapor emission primers was in use. The specified product primer [...]
Coating Service Life
In the world of high-performance coatings, successful service-life can be minutes, months, years or decades. For example, the material used in the Apollo program for a heat shield was an epoxy phenolic. It was designed to consume heat energy from fire and release the energy in the form of gas [...]
When Is Concrete Ready For Flooring?
A common misconception is that concrete is ready to receive coatings after the concrete has cured for 28 days. While it is true that concrete reaches 99% of its compressive strength after 28 days, that doesn’t address the most important factor in determining whether the concrete is ready for a [...]
Floor Coatings for Industry and Manufacturing
Prime Coat Coating Systems focuses not only on the successful engineering of industrial floor coatings for cleanability, resistance to stains, and durability, but also exemplifies our attention to managing risk from corrosion and other possible flooring failures. Each of our industrial floor coatings and industrial floor paints is inspected by [...]
Substrate Preparation
Proper preparation of the substrate to be coated is often the most critical step in achieving long term coating performance. This crucial step is often misunderstood, trivialized, out-sourced or omitted completely by others in the industry. Prime Coat has the expertise to prepare your substrate properly to conform with NACE, [...]