Floor Spray

Renew floors

The types of existing floors are countless and the technologies that have been renovated and adapted to the times as much as the result of new solutions and innovative materials, and from this point of view, the range of possibilities that a professional when choosing a product with and for his clients, allows you to make different assessments, both technical-performance as an economic one.

Sometimes the needs of the site require a solution to the decorative completion of an existing surface or to the renewal of an aged pavement, particularly when the time available for completion of the work is really cut to the bone, or when the replacement ex- novo of an existing flooring would exceed substantially the estimated budget.

The most practical and interesting solution that you can find for the type of intervention described above are those employing cement-based products that are placed by spray and, therefore, are ideal for intervening on existing surfaces.

Decorative flooring installation with spray

One of the products of the type described above is undoubtedly Idealwork Stencil Top in practice a decorative cementitious coating, great to give new life to existing floors with just a few millimeters of thickness. Of course, the preparation of the substrate on which Stencil Top is sprayed is crucial and varies from surface to surface, why does it sometimes proceeds with a high-pressure washing, while other times it is necessary to sand it.

Operationally, after the preparation of the application surface, we proceed with the application, with a steel spatula, a primer, composed by Ideal Binder and water, to which is added Colour Hardener, so-called hardener for printed floors, which comes in 26 different colors. The next phase even after the drying of the surface, is the application of the stencils, available in many varieties of finishings that reproduce textures of various materials - such as stones, bricks, various graphic elements - and are placed with the help double-sided tape or plasticine.

After this operation, there is the application of the final finish, sprayed on the surface with a gun hoppergun fed by the compressor, using the same type of mixture used for the bottom, except for the fact that the type of Colour Hardener in this case will be of different color than the bottom. In this step you define the final choice of type of finish - including antiqued, smooth, bucciardata or combed - and stencils will be removed prior to complete drying of the material. Finally, at least 8-12 hours after the removal of the stencil, you will complete everything with the application of protective resin Ideal anti-yellowing sealer that protects the surfaces from the weather and mechanical stress and brightens colors.

Another product just as interesting, useful, practical and of fast installation perfect for backing printed floors on surfaces of any type have already been completed or so to renew existing floors and aged, as the rough surfaces in indoor spaces or outdoors is the mortar single-component thin Decotop Overlay by Stone International.

Without the need for demolition of sorts, with a minimum thickness varying from 7 to 20 mm, Decotop Overlay allows you to get finished floor resistant to chemicals such as stress and mechanical stress (friction and pavement) and weathering. The application on any surface that provides the same is thoroughly clean and free of debris or organic chemicals, fats or oils, and any type of slag that may interfere with the chemical process of socket layer Decotop Overlay that you will apply.

The laying down is a first draft roller of one or two coats of primer Mt, in relation to the state and the type of the surface of the substrate, after that you apply the Malta Decotop, prepared in a manner to obtain the desired consistency and with The addition of dye Color Top dough, the thickness planned, working it with the fresno trowel for you to get a surface layer smooth.

Subsequently, after a period of rest, with the use of a pump spray apply the release agent liquid spray and will proceed immediately to the molding of the surface, before the same to evaporate. After a variable period between 6 and 24 hours, the surfaces thus obtained are cleaned and finished surface, and for a further processing Decorative expect other 48-72 hours for the application, even with this spray technique, the aging liquid, which gives an effect of natural aging also in the deep parts.

To complete the installation in a workmanlike manner, while protecting the surfaces decorated so far obtained, the Stone International recommends the use of the product named Sealfloor 100, to be applied in at least two passes.