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The Argument For Acrylicon Resin Flooring On Commercial Projects

When working on large commercial projects, cost is a leading factor when it comes to your flooring application. It needs to be fit for purpose, perform well – but above all else – within budget.

Quite often, you’ll only be achieving one of the three aims mentioned above: ‘within budget’. And your clients/users will be the ones left to pay the price when the resin floor you specified requires constant repairs over its lifetime.

However, it doesn’t have to be this way. On large-scale projects, the cost of Acrylicon resin floor is much more competitive than you may think.

In other words, you’ll be achieving a much better solution at near enough the same cost as inferior options.

Of course, there are more arguments as to why you should be considering Acrylicon resin flooring on your commercial project and in this post, we explore this further.

What Is Your Current Resin Flooring Solution?

It’s important to think about your current resin flooring and the problems you may have.

The chances are, that you’ve already specified for polyurethane (PU) or epoxy flooring, so here’s a brief overview of them both:

Polyurethane

PU has high compressive strength and can sustain high temperatures. It also is a scratch-resistant flooring.

The downtime is the most significant downside of polyurethane as a flooring solution. This is because PU takes 3-5 hours to dry and 3-5 days to thoroughly cure. Also, the gassing off that occurs during the curing process can cause pinholes in the floor, making it a breeding ground for bacteria from day one.

Epoxy

Epoxy, like PU, has high compressive strength. However, the curing period is considerably longer than PU – depending on the temperature, it can take up to 7 days to properly cure, resulting in an even longer impact on project times.

Another consideration with epoxy is that it’s tough to repair a permanently damaged epoxy resin floor because, once damaged, repairs usually necessitate continuing maintenance.

Because of the long cure period, any repairs that are required may need a shutdown for many days, which can be costly.

With both of these solutions mentioned above, you’ll be waiting significantly longer for the project to be completed, driving up overall cost of the programme. As you’ll be aware, delays on site can cost thousands of pounds per day.

With a cure time of just two hours, an Acrylicon resin floor will allow you to get on with the rest of your project sooner.

Warranty With Your Acrylicon Resin Flooring

Contractors and project managers working on commercial projects may experience warranty issues.

If you’re having to deal with multiple stakeholders, what if something goes wrong? Who is accountable?

Let’s say, for example, you select a resin flooring installation from X company. Yet, you discover that Y company is distributing it and Z company has manufactured it.

The installer is likely to blame the manufacturer or distributor and they may act in a similar way.

And you’re left with a disgruntled customer and no one willing to take ownership.

Working with a resin flooring business that manufactures, distributes and installs the system within the same group is preferable.

That way, if any problems arise, they can be resolved quickly.

An Acrylicon resin floor comes with a ten-year warranty, but with regular maintenance, your resin flooring can last much longer.

This is demonstrated by Acrylicon resin floors that are still in use after 40 years — read the Middlesbrough Football Club case study to learn more about long-lasting resin flooring.

Have A Simpler Process With Installation

Acrylicon has a faster cure time than most alternative flooring solutions, which might take up to a week. As mentioned before, the whole cure period for an Acrylicon floor is only 2 hours, which means the floor is ready to use right away – creating a simpler installation process for your resin flooring.

The cure period of Acrylicon is also unaffected by temperature and a fully regulated cure may be obtained at –20 degrees C.

Acrylicon’s flooring solution likewise uses chemical bonding. This means that before fusing together, each new layer softens and solves into the prior one. This eliminates any mechanical joints between the floor’s layers, reducing the risk of delamination. Delamination is one of the main causes for floor replacement with PU and Epoxy.

Conclusion

As a contractor or site manager, you’ll be looking at things like:

• – Warranty
• – Speed of installation
• – Speed of cure time
• – Cost

All of those objectives can easily be met with Acrylicon.

However, you’ll also be getting a far superior product; one that will still be in active use for a long time. Whilst this may not have a direct impact on you, it’s great to know that your clients will be left with a floor that truly stands the test of time.

So, why not get a resin floor that you can rely on? Not only will it make your life easier on-site, but your clients will thank you for it, too.