A beach restaurant voluntarily complied to ADA (American Disability Act) requirements for a wheel chair accessible rest room. The beverage station area of the floor was relocated to provide enough room for the wheel chair accessible rest room.
The owner of the restaurant used IFS fast cure floors in other restaurants he owned and insisted the IFS fast cure seamless floor be used instead of tile. He understood through experience, that tile grout lines harbor urine and water were odor and bacteria flourish, which eventally, lead to the complete degradation of the tile floor.
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The area's were gutted and new stud walls and utilities were installed in the new ADA compliant restroom and the relocated beverage station.
Looking out of the new restroom door at the floor through the roughed in door and stud walls.
The exposed old wood floor in the new unisex ADA compliant restroom.
A center drain was installed to accommodate cleaning and a new plywood floor was installed over the old and pitched to the center drain.
Nailers and/or 2X4 sleepers were ripped on an angle to provide the pitch to the drain.
Screws were used to secure the plywood to the pitched nailers.
Screwed and countersunk at 8"- 10", on center each way (OCEW) if possible. 3/4" tongue and groove plywood is desirable, but not required depending on elevation and load weights.
Counter sunk flat head screws are required.
The 'thumb touch' to verify the screw was countersunk.
11:00 PM
After the carpenters and tile contractor were finished IFS followed on a weekday night after closing to install the floor. This prevented any disruption of services during the day. In this picture, walls are protected with building paper and/or visqueen/poly sheets.
The room was vacuum cleaned. The floor was covered in visqueen poly sheets and duck taped to the floor during the additional plumbing, electrical and wall tile installation to protect the new plywood floor from contamination during those processes.
Multi colored decorative paint flakes or chips, as they are sometimes called, are mixed and blended with special beachy colors and a hint of holographic glitter for a little pizazz.
Palm sanders are used to remove any sandable inconsistancies or suspected contamination on the wood.
1:00 AM
After jobsite preparation and protection, the primer is mixed with the powdered initiator.
The primer is roller applied to the floor at approximately 15 mils thick. It soaks into the wood and becomes an integral part of the wood and/or concrete, whatever the case may be, insuring a lasting cohesion between the new floor and the substrate. This 100% solid 'wetter than water' primer insures delamination will never occur.
Special consideration (re-priming while still wet) is given to the drywall cove base substrate that due to the porosity of the dry wall, will soak in more primer than the wood or concrete substrate, whatever the case may be.
1:30
Visqueen poly sheets are laid out in the parking lot and the special precast cove is primed.
Priming of the cove insures a lasting bond between the precast cove base and the special ARR (acrylic reactive resin) adhesive that will be applied before the floor fast cure floor is poured.
2:00 AM
After the primer has completely cured (hardened) in a convenient 30-45 minutes, the center drain is detailed with ethafoam backer rod that's pushed down to the bottom of the plywood. This prevents leaking of the body coat below the floor that would create 'holidays' on the floor surface.
2:30 AM
After the primer cures and the detail work is done (stuffing around drains and toilet drain opening), the cured precast cove is dry cut to fit.
Working time for fast cure resins such as ARR resins that IFS is using on this project, is limited for free hand trowel applied cove so special precast corner pieces are provided to eliminate miter sawing that produces a perfect cove inside and outside corner.
Dry cutting and fitting corners.
Dry fitting the 'long runs' of precast cove base that lead into the inside corners.
Special ARR mastic or thickened resin with silica flour and thickening agents, is 'put up' the base with a margin trowel.
Following directly behind the margin trowel mastic application, a cove tool is used to smooth the special fast cure mastic that conforms roughly to the configuration of the special precast cove base with a perfect radius.
The special precast cove base is immediately pressed in place, welding it to the vertical wall.
Excess fast cure mastic is used to flush out and level seams in the plywood as the cove is being wet installed.
4:00 AM
A special flexible fast cure ARR resin slurry with fine sand filler is roller applied to the vertical cove surface and trowel applied to the horizontal floor surface. The special decorative, multi colored paint flakes or chips with a pinch of holographic is immediately broadcast into the wet floor and cove base.
4:30 AM
After the first broadcast. Note the reflection of some of the holographic glitter up in the right hand corner of the picture.
A close up of the holographic glitter, which depending on the angle of the light as you walk, changes the glittering of the specks of glitter, adding a special flare to the floor.
5:00 AM
Excess flake is removed to prepare for the second coat of fast cure 'neat' (clear resin without fillers or pigment) and the second broadcast of decorative flake with holographic glitter.
5:30 AM
The second body coat with clear resin is applied with rollers.
A second broadcast of decorative flake is applied immediately to the wet fast cure resin.
6:00 AM
Finishing up last body/broadcast coat.
6:30 AM
Removal of excess broadcast flake with vacuum.
7:00 AM
First clear topcoat is applied with a hint of white aluminum oxide skid resistant media broadcast into the first topcoat.
7:30 AM
A second clear topcoat is applied to cover the skid resistant white aluminum oxide broadcast in the previous first clear topcoat to encapsulate it. Topcoats resins are 'hot' and cure rapidly in 15 minutes.
8:00 AM
Trades and employees are starting to arrive at the restaurant.
Checking the floor to make sure the floor is fully cured and ready for traffic.
8:15
Trades are allowed to start work on the new fully cured (hardened) fast cure flooring system that helps expedite construction schedules and minimizes downtime not only on restroom floors but commercial kitchens, food and beverage processing, marine, tool and die/metal manufacturing, institutional like prisons and jail floor and wall coatings, schools, public assembly floors, etc.
9:00 AM
Plumber is setting the toilet on the wax ring. The vanity was installed shortly after. IFS was already gone when that occurred.
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