During past Christmas days my colleagues from CONICA in UK did an interesting daily posting on LinkedIn of 12 Christmas tips for rubber flooring installers. If you had no opportunity to see them in the CONICA Ltd pages at LinkedIn, you can check all the posts there, but if you do not have a LinkedInContinue reading “Tips for wetpour (PIP) installers”
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What I have learned about whitening of EPDM flooring
One of the visual defects you may find on an EPDM rubber surfacing job is the whitening on top of the initial colour after some time, usually a few months. There are some colours that seem to be more conducive to presenting the problem, and normally you can find this anomaly on lower quality EPDM.Continue reading “What I have learned about whitening of EPDM flooring”
Moss, Mould, Mildew, Algae, Lichen, Fungus in your rubber flooring?
If you are living in a Country with a sunny weather and low rainfall index all year around my article today will be of near no value for you. The problem I will talk about today occurs in shady and high humidity environments with a high rate of rainfall and very often at parts onContinue reading “Moss, Mould, Mildew, Algae, Lichen, Fungus in your rubber flooring?”
About wrinkles and bubbles
This is not a common problem on rubber surfacing jobs, I’ve seen it just a couple of times during the last 12 years. I will talk in this post about the appearance of wrinkles or bubbles in the top EPDM layer. In both cases the problem showed up in a site using a single layerContinue reading “About wrinkles and bubbles”
I am learning about glowing EPDM granules
We at CONICA continuously test new materials, new solutions, advanced systems, and all kind of innovative installation procedures to improve the performance, efficiency, quality or competitiveness of our safety flooring solutions for sports, playgrounds, leisure, industrial and commercial applications. One of these materials that we have tested in the past are the glowing granules thatContinue reading “I am learning about glowing EPDM granules”
A small talk about mixers for wet pour rubber flooring
The machine to create the appropriate state of the mix of rubber and polyurethane is one of the main investments a safety surfacing installer needs to do to ensure good quality jobs. It’s important in terms of final results you can achieve and efficiency but also is one of the most expensive tools you willContinue reading “A small talk about mixers for wet pour rubber flooring”
Bio-based Polyurethanes?
As you already know I am not a Chemist, but I am lucky enough to have at CONICA a team of colleagues that are some of the best ones, they are able to develop any product for flooring applications that you can request us. A few days ago, the world celebrated the 50th Anniversary ofContinue reading “Bio-based Polyurethanes?”
Long life with Top Coat Sealers
After a few years of installing a wet pour rubber flooring, some EPDM or coated SBR colours may have lost vividness and wear and tear may be visible with some granules crumbling due to loss of binder on the upper part of the top surface. If the budget does not allow the re topping orContinue reading “Long life with Top Coat Sealers”
Cushion layer with rubber buffings or granules?
The cushion or shock absorption effect to protect children fall in Playgrounds pour-in-place surfacing is provided by the base layer that is applied underneath the wearing layer, in different thicknesses depending on the project Critical Fall Height (CFH) requirements of the Play equipment. One of the most common materials used for this base layer isContinue reading “Cushion layer with rubber buffings or granules?”
Smoothing top layer with heat rollers or heat pavers
To obtain a beautiful visual finish, the continuous rubber flooring installer spends most of his working time, on his knees, smoothing the top layer or wear layer granules with the trowel. Example of common tools from the Flexotop assortment at KOMPAN A/S It is hard work and I recognise that the brief periods of timeContinue reading “Smoothing top layer with heat rollers or heat pavers”
Alternatives of top layer materials for wet pour flooring
In one of my previous articles on this blog, I discussed the most common materials currently used as granules for the top wearing layer of rubber wet pour flooring in playgrounds, fitness areas, water parks, pool decks, multipurpose areas and leisure applications. These were the ones I have used more frequently on real projects. AlthoughContinue reading “Alternatives of top layer materials for wet pour flooring”
The most common quality complaints of rubber wet pour flooring
During the last 10 years of dedication to the playground business and more specifically on safety surfacing, I have had the opportunity to see projects made by my own crews or subcontractors and a lot of others carried out by our competitors. A lot of them were beautiful, almost works of art with an amazingContinue reading “The most common quality complaints of rubber wet pour flooring”
Granules crumbling and foaming effects
There are two kind of defects on a rubber flooring that probably and unfortunately all wetpour (pour-in-place or PIP) installers have at some time suffered in some job site. Both effects are easy to pinpoint and a concern for the customers when occurring on the top layer. On the next few lines I will tryContinue reading “Granules crumbling and foaming effects”
RAL Colour codes and EPDM granules
Landscape Architects and Playground Designers are usually defining their safety surfacing design by using a colour code from one of the existing standards. The most frequently used Colour Standard is the Classic RAL System, that was created for defining colours for paint and coatings. This Standard is used today in architecture, construction and all industry.TheContinue reading “RAL Colour codes and EPDM granules”
Techniques for good colour transitions on EPDM top layer
Introduction One of the great advantages of wetpour (pour-in-place) rubber surfacing is the potential for using designs with different colours and all kind of shapes and graphics. Where a seam is necessary, there is a potential for joint to fail at some future time, so it is important to ensure that construction joints or overnightContinue reading “Techniques for good colour transitions on EPDM top layer”
The Safety Flooring as a Post-COVID-19 Play Space?
During recent months, playgrounds in most of the world have been lock-down as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic. Although in some countries the rules have been relaxed and some protection measures have been established, they still remain closed in various parts of the planet. My children are now mature adults and I have alreadyContinue reading “The Safety Flooring as a Post-COVID-19 Play Space?”
Cracks in the top layer of a rubber wet pour (pour-in-place) playground flooring
Why do you get cracks on pour-in-place rubber flooring?
How to design the wet pour safety flooring of a playground to fit the available budget
Deisgn wetpour rubber surfacing for a budget
Why to use smoothing agents on rubber wetpour surfacing
What I’ve seen at installer’s job sites Now that we must be confined at home due to this COVID-19 pandemia, I really miss a lot visiting the job sites of my rubber surfacing installer’s projects. To be honest, when I was very often visiting playground sites I was not always happy and one of theContinue reading “Why to use smoothing agents on rubber wetpour surfacing”
Comparing loose fill and wetpour rubber surfacing
One of the quite common impact absorbing surfaces in playgrounds is that using natural loose fill materials such as sand, gravel, bark, woodchips or engineered wood fibres. This type of surfacing provides a natural appearance, has an interesting recreational value, a low initial installation cost and children loves it, especially the little ones. However, theContinue reading “Comparing loose fill and wetpour rubber surfacing”
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