The most popular epoxy floors for businesses are those in the range of 10 20 mils thick and will usually comprise of a 2 to 3 coat system.
Epoxy coating thickness measurement.
The thicker coatings are used to repair and rebuild concrete floors that are in bad shape.
Coating thickness gauges.
Epoxy floor systems will tend to vary significantly in thickness depending on the intended use.
A primer a high builds basecoat and a topcoat.
This guide below examines the most common epoxy floor systems used.
They are composed of one coat of primer and 2 3 coats of ktisepox epoxy floor coating.
Coating thickness is obtained by subtracting the shim thickness from the total measurement of the shim and the coating.
A thicker coating with give the floor a solid profile and it helps to create an attractive extremely durable flooring system.
Elcometer offers a wide range of coating thickness gauges to measure dry film thickness.
Super thick epoxy coating.
Shims can be placed over soft tacky coatings to prevent the gage probe from depressing the coating film.
Thin coat systems usually have a dry film thickness of 400 500 microns.
The elcometer range of destructive coating thickness gauges includes the elcometer 121 4 paint inspection gauge the paint inspection gauge commonly known as the p i g is a popular method for determining dry film thicknesses on non metallic substrates.