Why to Use Waterborne Polyurethane for Floor Coatings?

Many a times, selecting between oil and waterborne polyurethane may seem to be a no brainer but it is not as easy as you may be thinking it to be. Though oil based polyurethane may last longer and look better, water based also offers some great advantages. Let’s go through some of them:

• Water based polyurethane dries faster as compared to the oil based. You can complete the work faster and walk on the floor when using waterborne polyurethane. This can be quite beneficial for businesses where the drying time means the store has to be closed.
• When compared to the oil based poly, the water based doesn’t smell too bad. This is the reason why many houses prefer to use the water based poly. Due to its increasing popularity some leading manufacturer of oxazolidines also manufactures waterborne polyurethane dispersions for use in different residential and commercial areas.
• With lower Volatile Organic Compounds, water based poly is bit better for the environment. This benefit has an impact during its drying time and this is the reason why manufacturers are making more money on the water based.

We hope this post will help you in making a better and informed decision with the better reasons to use water based poly coating. You can look for professionals who use water based poly for floor coatings and offer services at decent prices.

 

Terrific DIY cleaning tips for metals at home

We – the humankind – discovered metals hundreds and thousands of years ago. And since then we kept on experimenting metals to enhance the quality of our every lives. Look around for metals. And you’ll realize that you, I, all of us are almost surrounded by metals – be it the fan above your head, the AC in your bedroom, your car, or phone or furniture or kitchen utensils, we cannot escape from metals. But they are prone to lose their sheen sooner or later. And then they don’t look that amazing. The good thing is you can get back their lost sheen in no time, without actually spending a penny from your pocket. In this blog post, we’ll tell you five easy metal cleaning tips that anybody can do and bring back shine to their tea set or fridge, or closet.



For your silver sets

For years, you’ve saved this silver set that you use quite occasionally on big days like family gathering or anniversary or New Years. This time you’re shocked to see the silver – it’s turned woefully dull and dirty. Don’t worry – we have an extremely simple solution.


And the solution is your toothpaste. Yes you read it right - the toothpaste that you use to brighten up your teeth and keep your mouth free of germs.

Use it on your silver sets the way you’d use a commercial silver cleaner. And in no time your silver will reclaim its lost gleam. Try it to see it.

And let me not forget the banana peels – yes I said banana peels. Eat the banana and massage the silver with the banana peels.


For brass items

So how will you keep the golden magic intact around your brace items?
Simple, you’ll clean the stuffs with lemon and baking soda.

Or, you can sprinkle some salt and rub the surface with a clean rug dipped in white vinegar. Easy!


Once you’re done with the cleaning, rinse the brass items with a cloth dipped in warm water. And then use a soft, warm cloth to warm it off.


Want more on this? Stay in touch and we’ll share more DIY home and metal cleaning tips with you right here. These are home remedies for metals that lose their shine over time. If you want, you can opt for commercial metal cleaning agents such as Aldimine and oxazolidines.

if you liked this post, stay connected for our forthcoming interesting posts on Aldimine and its uses. If you have something to share with us, please do drop us a comment.

3 Most Popular Applications of Waterborne Polyurethane

All around the world, on an ever increasing number solvent based product are being phased out in favour of water based products. Environmental concern one, too many eye brows were raised about its effects on humans who came in contact with the chemicals during application. What the industry has come up with is several times better than what have been in use all these years and the new alternative is remarkably better in many aspects. Without getting too deep into that, we will show you instances of confident adoption of this new solution.

Hygiene coats
Let’s begin with application of Waterborne Polyurethane in hotels, restaurants and healthcare institutions. Cleaning is easy and rapid and takes less time to be done.  One thing that is common in all of these places is the need to keep surfaces perfectly clean and hygienic. A simple water based application dries up quickly, leaves no odour behind and reduces chance of being contaminated by bacteria, which you can imagine is quite crucial in every hospital, restaurant and nursing home.

Anti-Radiation coats
The summer is upon us and with the tropical sun beating down relentlessly, the need for anti-radiation Waterborne Polyurethane has become ever more necessary. A coat on the exterior walls and roofs not only keep the interiors cool, but also lowers energy expense. These coatings can be made waterproof as well to prevent water from seeping into walls.

Floor coatings
If the floor is dusty or if the floor in a supply room, warehouse, restaurant, shopping area and requires to be made resistant to pedestrian traffic, or if the look and aesthetics of a floor has to be improved upon, a single-component Waterborne Epoxy floor coating system should be suitable. These coatings, in addition to being water-based have low VOC and practically no odour.

Oxazolidines makes waves in the solvent borne industrial coatings market

The technological advancements that are taking place all over the world are not a new story for any one of us. In such a scenario, can the industrial coatings market be far behind? With the strict VOC regulations, there is a viable water based alternative that is used for solvent borne technology.

Incozol has been developed by the coatings industry as oxazolidines, as it is developed as a co-reactant in the polyurethane coatings to get low VOC. It maintains a low viscosity by restricting the intermolecular hydrogen bonding.

There are several benefits of reactive diluent. Like, it has good polypol and solvent compatibility and it also poses as low intrinsic viscosity and has high equivalent weight. It is of low color and used for clear lacquer finishing.

There are no adverse effects on the coating properties which includes film hardness development and resistance, gloss, and weathering properties.

The applications of this product include VOC paints and varnishes, high build paints, and elastomers.

Get in touch with Incorez- global leader in polyurethane coatings, sealants, moisture scavengers, reactive diluents, and latent curing agents. To know more about this product, visit our website where you will get all the required information.

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What makes your paint more stable

After getting my house painted last year, I went into depression. Really... it was that bad. No, I don’t mean the paint was bad but what I want to imply is that the trauma after seeing your newly painted house appear ghastly right after a small thunder shower was depressing. I did not know what to do. I had spent almost a month and half my savings for the year on getting the paint job done but to my misfortune all the efforts went down the drain.

I was constantly intriguied by this question as to why me and what was wrong. I asked the dealer and found out about the paint specifications, all seemed normal on that front. Then I asked an architect friend of mine about any problem with the raw material I used while building my house, after some deliberation and inspection, my friend told me there was no problem in the way my house was built. Then what? I asked but got no answers in return.

One fine day, this same architect friend of mine called me up and asked if it had rained after i got my house painted? I replied in affirmative and reinstated that it was a mild shower nothing like the torrential rains this part of the state sees. And bang I had the answer. Even in the worst of my dreams I could not think that t will be a chemical called oxazolidines that will be responsible for the disaster. Wait... don’t get me wrong. I am not blaming it on the presence of the chemical but the main problem was the absence of the chemical oxazolidines in the paint polyurethane.

Oxazolidines are chemical particles that consist of a range of mono and bis-oxazolidines that hydrolyse on being exposed to moisture yielding reactive amine and hydroxyl functionalities. Therefore, they protect your paint from wearing out in case of a shower, excessive sunlight or other problems. Oxazolidines, when mixed in the paint, keep it together and stable. It is therefore mandatory for all paint dealers to get this chemical component and mix it in the paint in the required proportion.

Unfortunately, my paint dealer was not aware of this and neither did I know about it. However, this year when I got my house re-painted I ensured that I had done my homework right and made sure that the paint dealer had mixed the right amount of oxazolidines in the solution. After all, it always better to be safe than sorry!