UBM Building Maintenance

It’s all too easy to take the warehouse floor for granted – it’s there under your feet, or your wheels if you’re a forklift operator. The message is, you can’t neglect maintaining the warehouse floor or taking floor safety precautions.
Today’s increased emphasis on workplace safety extends to ensuring adequate safety precautions regarding warehouse floors. Putting [...]

The search for better ways to use green products, methods and technology leads facility managers to painting strategies that not only consider the welfare of the environment and incurs lesser costs, but at the same time still maintain high quality paint performance.
Some of these paints and coatings practices are the application of a second coating [...]

by Joe Nasvik
 
Imagine a concrete floor as shiny as glass–this is a look that diamond polishing can achieve. Two years ago very few people in the United States had even heard of polished concrete other than terrazzo floors. Terrazzo floors use carborundum stones to grind and polish floors to a 120- to 150-grit finish (grit [...]

by Raymond Alexander Kukkee
 
Causes for coating failure on your warehouse floor coating
In business, an attractive, well-maintained warehouse floor free of clutter gives visitors the impression of a clean, well-managed establishment. Even if other conditions are perfect, however, a warehouse floor that appears in poor condition because of peeling paint or coating failure can leave a [...]

As a painting and coatings professional for the past twenty four years, I have been approached many times concerning the proper floor coating for warehouse floors. Trade journals are loaded with advertisements for different coatings that all promise optimal performance under virtually any conditions, and every one claims to be the best bargain in the [...]