How to Guarantee the Quality of Epoxy Flooring

With a full range of excellent performances, epoxy flooring has satisfied the demands of numerous industries and entered a new stage of development. For many property owners, it is quite troublesome to figure out how to control and guarantee epoxy flooring quality, how to identify qualified projects, and how to find a formal professional flooring construction and coating contractor.

Although there are a large number of epoxy flooring companies on the market, only a few are truly professional. Many seem formal on the surface, but they are actually one-person enterprises registered through agency companies with only a small investment. Some merely rent a tiny office—or even no office at all—and set up a website through network companies to start business. They boast online that they produce raw materials in-house, own professional construction teams and complete sets of equipment. However, an on-site inspection will reveal a huge gap between their actual strength and online promotion.

There are many individual contractors engaged in epoxy flooring construction nationwide. Most construction workers are originally home decoration plasterers, concrete workers or earthwork laborers, rather than professional coating constructors. Unprofessional flooring companies usually outsource projects to individual contractors, who then temporarily gather casual workers as small construction teams. The contracted construction fee for such temporary teams is generally calculated at 5 to 12 yuan per square meter, with materials provided by the company. To make profits under this model, cutting corners on materials and construction becomes inevitable. These workers have high mobility and leave immediately after project completion, leaving no after-sales service at all.

Coating application is a specialized profession. Operators need professional knowledge and skills, including an in-depth understanding of the functions, properties, application scope, construction methods and precautions of various resin products, as well as the compatibility of different resins. They also need basic color theory knowledge to deploy custom colors according to actual needs. In fact, it is not difficult to find a qualified epoxy flooring contractor by checking the following key points:

1. Unprofessional companies always claim to conduct independent R&D, production, sales and construction. When clients propose to visit their production workshops and product warehouses, they will make various excuses to refuse local inspections. Some are just small unlicensed workshops without official production permits.
2. Check the configuration of construction equipment. Unprofessional companies usually only own one or two floor grinders with no other supporting equipment. By contrast, formal enterprises invest at least over 300,000 RMB in professional coating equipment.
3. Verify local project track records. Unprofessional companies rarely have completed local projects and can only boast about large projects in other cities. It is necessary to ask for original project contracts and acceptance documents for verification.
4. Check the composition of the construction team. Confirm whether the team is officially employed by the company, ask to view professional skill certificates, check construction photos involving these workers, and arrange on-site operation demonstrations for random inspection. Professional coating workers should be proficient in automotive coating, flooring coating, non-metallic coating, artistic coating, marine coating, woodware coating and plastic product coating. They need professional chemical knowledge and the ability to operate with 17 types of resins and 1986 kinds of paints.
5. Generic small companies are usually newly registered. They grab any project at all costs, compete purely by low prices and disregard construction quality. When cooperating with such companies, it is advisable to make payment only after project acceptance to avoid subsequent disputes.
6. Avoid small manufacturers with inferior product quality. Formal professional floor paint manufacturers generally do not undertake engineering construction contracting. They focus on product research, development and quality stabilization, with an annual output value of hundreds of millions and highly reliable product quality. In contrast, many small floor paint manufacturers have been eliminated by the local market and can only expand business in other provinces. They engage in both material sales and on-site construction, adopting the model of ruining the market in one region before moving to another. Such enterprises with no local market credibility cannot deliver reliable quality and after-sales service.