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flooring
Restoring tired Insulated floor
flooring takes the strain
THERE ARE many ways to refurbish an NEW FLOOR insulation has been
existing floor. At Airdrie Leisure Centre, the introduced to meet safety and sustainability
base was good enough for Sports needs for buildings adhering to new
Surfaces (UK) to lay directly on top of the building codes.
old floor. Floormate 300-A from Dow Building
The company refurbished a “tired” Solutions (shown below) is an extruded
traditional block/ tile floor with its polystyrene foam insulation board made
polyurethane Pulastic 2000 overlaid with naturally occurring CO2,and is
directly over the existing surface. designed for use in floors in commercial
The seamless system comprises a and residential buildings.
rubber shock pad followed by liquid Created from the insulation material
applied polyurethane in Sky Blue, which Styrofoam, Floormate 300-A has a nominal
was installed over the prepared block floor. compressive strength of 300 kN/m2, and
Court markings were then applied. a design load (the load which will give
Another option is to have the floor maximum compression of 2% over 50
completely stripped out and for the years) of 130 kN/m2. Declaring the design
installer to start again. Where possible, any load allows specification against the long
timber that is in good enough condition term requirements of a building’s floor, as
can be sent off for reclaim. This is what well as built in safety margins, says Conrad
occurred at Goldborne High School in Newberry, Dow’s technical manager.
Warrington, where the old floor was past “Failure of a floor can be incredibly
refurbishment so it was taken out and the expensive, due to the interruption of
wood partially reclaimed. business and cost of repair, for any
At Castlehead High School in Paisley, a building irrespective of its use,” Newberry
more straightforward refurbishment was told bfl. “In particular, floors in
carried out. Sports Surfaces sanded and environments such as busy retail outlets
sealed existing timber floors and provided and offices must be capable of
new line marking in two small studios. It withstanding anticipated loads – and they
also provided a full Pulastic installation for
Castlehead’s newly-built Sports Hall.
Solution for
must also be able to maintain that
performance over a building’s lifespan,
time sensitive
making durability key.
“We’re seeing more demand from
project
developers for insulated floors, to help
them meet more stringent thermal
efficiency criteria and demonstrate their
NEWS INTERNATIONAL, the UK
own environmental credentials.”
subsidiary of News Corporation,
publishes a number of the
country’s most famous national
newspapers, including the Times,
the Sun and the News of the World.
The print packing area in its
Knowsley operation was new, but
badly cracked, and the company
needed a dust free, colour-
demarcated floor that could be
fitted and fully operational in a
timescale of just 16 hours.
Resin Surfaces provided the
fast-track solution for the project,
installed by Datum Industrial
Flooring. Datum used RSL’s
Fastcure range, which allowed the
floor (pictured above) to be cured
and back in full use after a fitting
period that started at 4:00am and
finished at 8:00pm the same day.
“The resin surfaces is low odour,
low taint and meets the health and
safety requirements of both
installers and employers.
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