5 Reasons Your Business Needs Concrete Floor Painting
When you run a business, the floor beneath your feet might be the last thing on your mind. However, if you neglect the condition of your concrete floors, you’re not doing yourself or your business any favors. Those floors have an impact on many aspects of your operation, including your bottom line, compliance efforts, reputation, and efficiency. If you want to stay ahead of the curve on all of these accounts, you must maintain your floors. One simple step can make this easy: painting your concrete floors.
Why Your Business Needs Concrete Floor Painting
1. Protect Your Investment
Flooring isn’t cheap -- of course, this fact might not reveal itself until you’re staring down a bill for major repairs or replacements. One way to avoid these costly renovations is to properly coat your floors with concrete floor polishing like polyurea or urethane cement. Sealing your floors this way enhances both the durability and longevity of your floors, protecting them from moisture intrusion, chemical deterioration, bacteria, mold, thermal shock, impact, and more.
2. Keep Your People Safe (falling, visibility)
Safety should be the number one priority for all businesses. If your concrete floors are in rough shape, your employees and customers are at greater risk of slips, trips, and falls. In addition to keeping your floors clean and picking up spills right after they occur, you can greatly reduce these risks by painting your floors with anti-slip coatings. These coatings increase your floor’s friction so people don’t slip and slide around. Plus, the bright glossy finish increases a facility’s visibility, also contributing to the greater safety of everyone inside.
3. Impress Customers and Guests
Polyurea floor coatings aren’t just functional -- they’re fashionable, too. Beaten up, barren concrete floors don’t impress anyone, and actually make a place look dreary and unwelcoming. Conversely, well-painted concrete floors look smooth, sleek, and even come in various colors and texture varieties. With the right kinds of coatings, you can transform a previously bland space into a memorable showroom, boosting your reputation in the process.
4. Support Employee Health
Penntek polyurea floor coatings are multi-layered, with a primer and basecoat of industrial epoxy floor paint. Additionally, the topcoat is made of polyurea, an incredibly flexible and durable material that keeps moisture and chemicals away from the floor and helps prevent cracking. These coatings create a barrier to mold and mildew which improves your facility's air quality and cuts down on breathing, lung, and other respiratory issues that coincide with mold and mildew buildup. You'll see a return on investment when your labor costs are reduced due to fewer employee sick days and turnover.
5. Make Maintenance Easier
Whether or not your floors are painted, it’s imperative that you keep them clean. Of course, cleaning bare and/or deteriorated concrete floors can be challenging -- dust and debris can enter the surface’s pores and cracks, making it hard to truly remove all traces of dirt. Painted floors, on the other hand, are much easier to clean, offering a smooth, non-porous surface to sweep, mop, and spray down. No one likes cleaning floors, but everyone would rather get it over with quickly and be proud of the job -- concrete floor painting makes that possible.
If you’re still not convinced that your business could use concrete floor painting, the pros at Anderson Painting are happy to show you examples of our work and give you more reasons to do so. To learn more about us and all we do, call today at 919-610-1855 or email us at info@andersonpaintingnc.com!
