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Are Simple Sealers the Answer to Pricing Concerns for Your Warehouse Floor Coating?
In today's competitive business atmosphere, controlling maintenance costs of warehousing and other buildings is essential. One expensive element of building maintenance is care of warehouse floor coatings. If poorly selected, or entirely the wrong coating is installed in the application, the coating may be prone to failure. Even the most expensive and highly touted coating systems such as multi-component epoxies, polymers and powder coatings can and will fail under some conditions. It is critical to choose the correct warehouse floor coating.
Choose Coatings Carefully
Specialty Coatings
Specialty coatings are often installed to meet hygienic requirements for the food industry, safety standards for processing, control of electrostatic discharge, aesthetic, or other specific reasons. Epoxy and urethane systems are essential in some applications, but not all. Seek the advice of your floor coating specialists where specific requirements must be met for the food industry, "clean-electronics" manufacture, or other highly controlled environments.
Advantages of specialty coatings include the meeting of specified requirements, superior performance if applied correctly, and high durability. The main disadvantages of such systems are the high initial cost of the products and processes required for the correct application. Specialty products can be difficult to apply as a retrofit because the penetration and adherence of previous floor treatments resulting in contamination of the new floor coating. The resulting pinholes, fish-eyes and other surface defects may become apparent only after the product is cured.
Concrete Paints
For a simple warehouse that is used only for storage and is not subject to chemical spillage, wet conditions or heavy traffic, simple industrial concrete paints may be suitable. Advantages include lower initial cost, moderately simple application techniques and adequate performance under most conditions. Paints do tend to chip, fade, and peel off if adhesion is not satisfactory. Painted surfaces show wear and eventually must be touched up or repainted. Where there is little or no impact or wear, concrete paints can offer a low-cost alternative.
Concrete Sealers
A reasonable solution for some applications may be to apply high-quality, simple concrete sealants to concrete warehouse floors. Best done when concrete is new which eliminates or prevent staining, the cost of sealants is but a fraction of expensive two-component coatings and will function more than adequately. Simple sealants will perform under many combinations of operating conditions just as concrete paints will, but without the disadvantage of chipping. Whether for a storage area, processing area or for specialty uses, floors treated with inexpensive sealants do prevent staining and the necessity for replacement of worn, chipped, and faded coated areas. Concrete sealers properly applied can meet your requirements and your budget. Disadvantages of sealants include the difficulty in trying to seal an older floor that may have been previously painted or has already been badly stained. Sand-blasting, cleaning and etching can eliminate only surface stains from concrete. Sealants are usually transparent, therefore previously painted surfaces may show paint that has penetrated, remaining visible in the concrete after sealing.
The options listed are the best choices if you have to minimize your warehouse coating maintenance budget. But if your budget allows for epoxies or other similar coatings, this is a better way to go because they will last longer, look better and withstand more. Not to mention that if you pay for higher quality coatings up front the cost will pay off because cheaper coatings are really just quick fixes and often have to be redone sooner rather than later.
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Deciding on the best multi-supplement?
I'm trying to choose between 2 high-quality multivitamins/nutritional supplements - hard to find an opinion that's not paid for. I'm comparing Xtend-life Total Balance Men's Plus (http://health.xtend-life.com/product/Total_Balance_Men's/Ingredients.aspx) and Source Naturals Life Force Men's http://www.sourcenaturals.com/products/GP1839/. Both have a lot of good ingredients and in similar but differing strenghts, but about 20 are only in LF, and about 40 are only in TB. TB is enteric coated. LF can be found for much cheaper, so I'd pick it if they are comprable. If TB is way better for me, I'll spring for it.
First of all, I am not able to click the Xtend-life link you provided. Second, they seem to be in pill form of vitamins.
There are recent research on pill forms of vitamins and find out that there are 2 issues:
1. Absorption rate is low only around 10%
2. Free radical generation from the minerals of the vitamin itself so instead of helping our body protect from free radical damage, the vitamins are combating the free radicals that it generates, thus cancel out the effect it is supposed to help for our body.
Before investing your money in supplements, 2 important factors to consider that determines its effectiveness. 1 is absorption 2 is potency
I would only prefer Isotonix line whenever it is available because it's the only isotonic form of supplements in the market that provides superior absorption rate that other form cannot beat.
In order to form pills, filling, additives needs to be added, these are waste to our body and increase digestion time.
In additions, no matter if we drink fluid, eat food or take pills, everything need to be broken down into isotonic solution in our stomach first before our body can absorb. Stomach is very high acidic, thus most of the nutrients are destroyed in our stomach before reaching small intestine for absorption. So with pill form, you are looking for absorption rate of about 10 to 40% depending on our body's digestion ability and the ingredients to form the pills. Please keep in mind that human's digestion ability decease by age.
With Isotonix line, since it's in isotonic form by adding certain amount of water to one capful of powder (it tastes great too!), vitamin won't stay in stomach and will go to intestine within 5 minutes so you are looking for absorption rate of 90% and higher, higher absorption rate even compare to IV injection.
No filling or binding are added to the Isotonix line so you are guarantee to have best potency for the vitamin you take.
For general health purpose, everyone should take multivitamin, fish oil, and antioxidants.
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good quality multivitamin and mineral supplement creates a sound micronutrient foundation to accompany the human diet. According to the World Health Organization (WHO), “Nutrition is the foundation for health and development. Better nutrition means stronger immune systems, less illness and better health.
There is no substitute for a healthy, well-balanced diet; however, in today’s fast-paced lifestyles it is important to ensure the body is getting the fuel it needs.
Primary benefits:
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