Engineering

The ASTM C-1028 Scam

By |2024-02-03T12:42:12+00:00July 5th, 2022|Architecture, Buildings, Construction, Engineering, Uncategorized|

Floor safety experts nationwide and internationally, have considered this test to be a joke for many years! Yet this joke continues to be no laughing matter since companies keep sending their products to be tested using this outdated, withdrawn scam of a test!

ANSI A326.3 is the ONLY Standard to Follow

By |2024-02-02T20:16:51+00:00May 17th, 2022|Architecture, Buildings, Construction, Engineering, Uncategorized|

There is no longer any ANSI standard for measuring the Static Coefficient of Friction (SCOF), thus completing the transition in the United States away from the SCOF method to the globally recognized DCOF method.“

Why Wax Floors when you can BoostMAX Floors?

By |2024-02-02T20:19:34+00:00May 16th, 2022|Architecture, Buildings, Construction, Engineering, Uncategorized|

Whether you maintain a school having to shuffle desks around once or twice a year for a strip and wax, a healthcare facility in need of a safe and easy-to-maintain environment, a car dealership in need of a durable floor coating that holds up to heavy tire traffic, or a restaurant with greasy hard to clean floors, BOOST™ MAX is the perfect floor coating solution.

Updated ANSI A326.3 Officially Released

By |2024-02-02T20:16:52+00:00February 14th, 2022|Architecture, Buildings, Construction, Engineering, Uncategorized|

Tile Council of North America (TCNA) has announced the addition of a five-category “product use classification system” in ANSI A326.3 American National Standard Test Method for Measuring Dynamic Coefficient of Friction of Hard Surface Flooring Materials, published on February 2, 2022.

A Slip & Fall’s Prime Victim

By |2024-02-02T20:19:35+00:00February 7th, 2022|Architecture, Buildings, Construction, Engineering, Uncategorized|

My grandparents are no longer with us. I was very close to them and I loved them deeply. If they were still with us though, knowing the information I know now, I would do my absolute best to make sure all their floors are safe for them to walk on. I would make sure that their shower floors, bathtubs, front patios, pool decks, kitchen floors, any surface they walk on are all slip resistant and safe for them.

How to Clean a Floor to Keep it Safe

By |2024-02-02T20:19:36+00:00February 3rd, 2022|Architecture, Buildings, Construction, Engineering, Uncategorized|

Most restaurants and businesses have their hired workers clean their floors at the end of the day when everyone is tired and ready to go home. The cleaning usually means that someone takes a dirty mop with some water, that they may or may not have changed out since the previous cleaning, and adds some sort of generic floor cleaner and mops the entire area as fast as they can to finish and go home.

High-Cost Strip & Wax vs. Low-Cost BoostMAX

By |2024-02-02T20:19:37+00:00January 25th, 2022|Architecture, Buildings, Construction, Engineering, Uncategorized|

BoostMAX is the world’s first High-Performance Slip Resistant Sealant with Ceramic Nano Particles. Every square foot of BoostMAX contains about 12 million ceramic particles suspended on the surface of this flexible coating system.

3 Stages to Slip Risk Assessment & Prevention

By |2024-02-02T20:19:38+00:00January 5th, 2022|Architecture, Buildings, Construction, Engineering, Uncategorized|

Many of these areas can experience some sort of contamination due to negligence. If an area becomes contaminated with water or any other liquid substance, make sure that your team is properly trained to identify it immediately and to clean it up.

5 Benefits for Traction Enhancing Treatments

By |2024-02-02T20:19:40+00:00January 4th, 2022|Architecture, Buildings, Construction, Engineering, Uncategorized|

This type of treatment does not leave anything on your tile, it does not create any film that can peel over time. This treatment actually creates a series of microscopic mountain peaks and valleys in your tile.

Why Should I Test My Floor?

By |2024-02-02T20:16:54+00:00January 3rd, 2022|Architecture, Buildings, Construction, Engineering, Uncategorized|

In the United States, there is only one standard that is acceptable for measuring slip resistance. It is the ANSI A326.3 which tests for the DCOF of a surface and requires the DCOF to measure above a 0.42 to be compliant with the standard.

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