TMI Coatings Blog

TMI Coatings has a contract with the State of Minnesota for flooring and the History Center in St. Paul contacted TMI regarding a mechanical room floor that was leaking to the space below.  TMI abraded the floor in the mechanical room, approximately 2,300 sq. ft., filled all the joints and voids in the floor, and [...]

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TMI Coatings coated the exterior of approximately 40,000 square feet of exterior block and concrete surfaces at a large manufacturing facility located in the Midwest.  TMI prepared the surface by water blasting to remove the flaking paint.  TMI completed considerable concrete repair and caulking prior to applying the two coats of coating.   After a walk [...]

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TMI Coatings re-lined the interior of three hot water tanks for a college in St. Paul.  After the owner removed the internal electrical apparatus, TMI protected the heat elements that remained in the tanks and sandblasted the interior.  Ducting and fans were used to ventilate sand dust to the outdoors.  A high performance coating was [...]

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The Green Mountain Water and Sanitation Department of Lakeland, Colorado recently awarded TMI Coatings the repair of their 2.0 million gallon buried water tank which was leaking. TMI abrasive blast cleaned and repaired the existing concrete water tank and relined the interior concrete tank surfaces including the floors, walls and pipe penetrations. The new lining [...]

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TMI Coatings began the New Year with a project at a major Wisconsin university. The school had a couple of tanks that required new, corrosion resistant industrial linings. Upon arrival, the crew protected the surrounding area by poly wrapping equipment to protect from sand and dust. Then TMI proceeded to sandblast the interior of both [...]

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TMI Coatings recently contracted with an energy company in Illinois to line a sulfuric acid containment area.  The existing concrete was mushy and severely deteriorated from years of chemical saturation.  TMI’s crew began by removing the existing coating and soft concrete.  All surfaces were neutralized, abraded and restored prior to application of the new floor [...]

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A casino in North Dakota was having problems with their hotel pool deck that became very slippery when wet.  They also had carpeting in some areas around the pool that was continuously wet and musty.  After the carpet was removed from the pool deck, TMI prepared the surfaces by mechanically abrading and applied CHEM-RESIST epoxy [...]

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Cooling tower basins require maintenance just as any other part of a building.  TMI Coatings has years of experience lining cooling tower basins to reduce corrosion.  The seamless coating is applied to all accessible areas of the basin to extend the life of the pan and allow the owner to avoid the expense of total [...]

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A co-op facility in northwestern Minnesota contacted TMI Coatings to sandblast and paint their fertilizer tower and the structural steel connected to the tower.  The tower and steel were corroded and rusty; fertilizer towers often rust out because the fertilizer contains chemicals which corrode steel.  The owner wanted to have the structure painted to prolong [...]

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The TMI Coatings team recently completed a recoating project for the City of Brodhead Wastewater Treatment Facility. The facility has two fiberglass domes, each 45’ in diameter with a connecting entrance area of 13’ long. The total work area for the project was 7,000 sq. ft. TMI pressure washed the fiberglass domes with up to [...]

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