Welded Seam Sheet Vinyl Flooring
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Welded seam sheet vinyl flooring. Benefits of eliminating heat welding. The goal for heat welded seams to position pvc sheet flooring so it could compete with other seamless floors in the marketplace such as epoxy poured. Several commercial sheet vinyl flooring products today come with enhanced factory applied coatings. Weld rods can be combined with flash coving to provide superior seam strength and tightness preventing dirt and moisture from getting under the floor in spaces it matters most.
Armstrong homogeneous vinyl sheet flooring is the industry standard for aseptic healthcare applications like operating rooms and surgical suites as well as other medical environments. Scorching of the flooring at the seams and seam splitting. Armstrong flooring provides weld rods designed to be used in conjunction with our homogeneous and heterogeneous commercial sheet flooring. Lab tests of properly welded seams showed no growth of staph and.
Benefits of eliminating heat welding are. When installing timberline ambigu stonerun safety zone medintech medintone medinpure accolade plus rejuvenations restore possibilities or corlon against any other vinyl sheet flooring at doorways and hallways seams can be heat welded using solid color weld rod and a 4 or 5 mm round nozzle. Heat welding made its debut in 1960s and 1970s in the united states with welded vinyl sheet flooring and welding rods produced by a then little european company known as tarkett. Doing so will cause a job failure and seams that will open up over time.
Chemical weld guide chemical welds. The through pattern chip construction throughout the entire thickness provides superior gouge abrasion and indentation resistance. With linoleum a bonding process between the linoleum and the rod is used. Email us we will respond as quickly as we can.
The most common failures we see are. Leveraging our years of experience manufacturing hard and soft surface flooring we have designed our portfolio of products resilient sheet lvt and our integra hp performance broadloom carpet to be chemically welded to each other creating truly seamless transitions from surface to surface. Remember to allow the. With sheet vinyl you use a thermo fusion process a combination of melting and fusion between the rod and the flooring material.
Reduced overall installed cost improved aesthetics with no weld lines to disrupt the visual and accent the seams improved environmental performance with substantial reduction in co2 footprint. A properly executed chemical weld can provide the appearance of a seamless floor and is chosen due to aesthetics. In some cases the weld rod can be easily pulled from the groove or there are sections along the seam where the weld rod is missing. 3rd party research shows that net fit seams are as hygienic in hospital settings as heat welded sheet vinyl.
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