Outgassing Polyurethane Floor

Even long after these finishes have dried however smaller amounts of vocs continue to off gas into the.

Outgassing polyurethane floor.

Understanding what s off gassing after refinishing floors. The project featured here is a 2 400 sf floor in a colorado barn. Formaldehyde is an ever present colorless gas that can give off a pickle like smell. Curing out gassing with concrete coatings in denver colorado by fishers concrete.

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. The fumes and odors left behind after restoring wood flooring can be a headache literally. In most cases the bubbles are caused by air getting trapped during the mechanical mixing of the resin and hardener.

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. Many common products used to refinish wood flooring contain harmful chemicals known as volatile organic compounds or vocs.