Flooring

Benefits:

• Superior protection against moisture damage to flooring
  • Avoid unsightly floors – expansion, cupping, peaking, curling, buckling, bubbling, blistering, gapping / seam separation, debonding, delamination, adhesive failure, oozing/bleeding, warping, staining, efflorescence, discoloration, mold growth, mildew, fungi
  • Reduce concrete rewetting and the relative humidity (RH) of the concrete
  • Avoid moisture vapor spikes in your concrete
• Reduced construction time and related cost savings
  • No delays from concrete rewetting
  • Avoid delays and call-backs related to flooring damage
• Reduce risk of floor failure
  • Owners and specifiers – avoid legal claims and costs related to trip hazards
  • Specifiers – avoid the time and inconvenience of flooring issues from moisture damage as well as the cost of potential change orders for moisture mitigation toppings
• Reduce risk of adhesive bond failure with all flooring types
  • Low-VOC adhesives are more moisture sensitive – avoid moisture problems
• Reduce replacement and maintenance
  • Extend the life of flooring and reduce replacement frequency
• Sustainable solution
  • Reduced replacement requirements
  • Contributes to LEED points
  • No VOCs
• Extensively and independently tested to back Hycrete claims
• • Please see Hycrete documents for independent testing information

Flooring installations are vulnerable to moisture damage. Water, which may come directly into contact with the flooring or reach it as water vapor, can damage the installation in a number of ways:

• All flooring types using adhesives
  • Low-VOC adhesives are more moisture sensitive – avoid moisture problems
• Wooden flooring
  • Water and vapor can cause buckling, warping, and cupping, and moisture can cause delamination
• Bamboo and cork
  • Water and vapor can cause buckling, cupping, and efflorescence
• Carpet tiles and carpets
  • Water can cause stains, mold, and efflorescence
• Vinyl composition tiles (VCT), sheet vinyl, linoleum
  • Water and vapor can cause bubbling, blistering, and debonding
• Ceramic, terrazzo, and stone flooring
  • Water and vapor can warp underlayments and cause cracking and unevenness

Coatings can be used as a barrier against moisture and vapor, but they have to be applied to completely dry concrete. Concrete rewets easily and takes a long time to dry again. Even if only a small area of concrete is wet, the whole floor installation may be delayed as a result. Vapor retarders do not protect against rewetting either. Crystalline solutions and coatings require the presence of water in order to operate, and may not achieve the promised MVER reduction and inhibit floor bonding if the concrete contains fly ash or slag.

With V1000, you have the complete protection of an integral waterproofing approach. You are protected against both vapor and moisture seepage through capillary action. Your floors can be easily applied and will last longer.

Contact us to find out about how Hycrete products can protect your flooring against moisture and vapor damage.

• Hycrete V1000