TMI Coatings Blog

TMI Coatings was contacted by an electric power and natural gas supplier recently to repair and coat their equipment and vehicle parking garage floors.  The concrete overhead in the lower level garage was deteriorating due to the salt and moisture leaking through the parking areas. The majority of the existing waterproof parking deck coating had [...]

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TMI Coatings recently completed protective flooring work in the Production Area at a manufacturing and technology company located in the Midwest.  The customer’s roof had caved in.  During the roof repair process, several areas of the previously coated floor were damaged by weld spatter when new steel beams were added to reinforce the roof. TMI [...]

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In May of 2008, TMI Coatings applied protective flooring to approximately 3,500 square feet in a machine shop of a manufacturing company.  The crew began by preparing the floor surface with TMI’s vacuum steel shotblast unit and electric hand-held grinding disks.  All areas were cleaned and roughened to create an anchor pattern for the new [...]

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A St. Paul manufacturing plant had a vacant room due to some reorganization.  Before equipment was reinstalled in the space, the owner decided to recoat the epoxy floor to give it a fresh new look.  It’s rare to get an opportunity to recoat a floor when the room is wide open and totally empty.  The [...]

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A manufacturing plant in Wisconsin has trouble keeping the dust filters clean in the heat exchanger inside the building.  The concrete is bare and is dusting up frequently.  They sweep the floors often but bare, uncoated concrete will continue to dust up unless it’s sealed. The solution would be to install an epoxy sealer/dustproofer on [...]

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How is your safety record?  Are slippery floors causing lost time due to slip/fall accidents? There are many advantages to coating your concrete floors: Coatings can be non-slip for safety.  They reduce slips and falls, providing a safer work environment.  The non-slip feature can be tailored to your needs and environment. Coatings can be color [...]

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TMI Coatings recently completed flooring work at Vicom in Chaska, MN.  Vicom is a pie producing facility for Vicorp Restaurants, the owner and operator of Village Inn and Bakers Square Restaurants.  Bakers Square is best known for their french silk pies. Vicom was having problems with the floor in the Dough Room and a floor [...]

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What floor product is right for my environment? There are many different products to choose from.  Here is a brief description of some of the resinous (liquid applied) floor coating systems commonly used in industry.  Cementitious Urethane – A heavy-duty industrial floor topping, trowel applied at 1/4” – 3/8” for resistance to impact, heat and thermal [...]

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