Outgassing Polyurethane Floor

Outgassing is most commonly an issue in epoxy coatings creating small pinhead sized bubbled that can appear sporadically over the floor and which can even form small craters.

Outgassing polyurethane floor.

It has been commonly used in home products for decades in everything from certain types of wood flooring to. Even long after these finishes have dried however smaller amounts of vocs continue to off gas into the. Many common products used to refinish wood flooring contain harmful chemicals known as volatile organic compounds or vocs. The requirement for the flooring was a high performance epoxy using our endura e21 self priming 100 solids epoxy.

The fumes and odors left behind after restoring wood flooring can be a headache literally. Voc off gassing is most acute during application and the drying of hardwood floor finishes. The off gassing from these chemicals pose a variety of long term and short term health effects from headaches and nausea to damage to the liver kidneys and the central nervous. Formaldehyde is an ever present colorless gas that can give off a pickle like smell.

The project featured here is a 2 400 sf floor in a colorado barn. Curing out gassing with concrete coatings in denver colorado by fishers concrete.