The GreenIce Cure™ system creates a durable concrete floor with a gloss shine.
The GreenIce Cure™ system creates a concrete slab with a surface that looks like ice! The process begins with our two-part curing products, IceStart™ and IceStop™. These unique curing agents are designed to work with the concrete trowel to reduce or eliminate common problems flatwork finishers face. With our third treatment, IceCap™, you can achieve the same brilliance you would get with a profiled, honed, and polished floor specified for many warehouses. And you get all of this with less labor, downtime, and environmental impact. Get the look and clarity of a fresh sheet of ice over a concrete slab using the GreenIce Cure system!
Features & Benefits
- Ease of finishing and eliminates false set
- Reduces drag on the concrete and meets slip resistance standards
- Reduces subsurface lateral microcracking
- Removes cat faces
- Retards set times in hot weather
- Does not extend set times in cold weather
- Allows finishing of dry shake as if it is normal concrete
- Looks like a mechanically polished (PHP) floor
- Better protection than found on mechanically finished floors
- Opens new markets for flatwork contractors
THE PHP PROCESS FOR POLISHED ARCHITECTURAL CONCRETE
Profile, Hone, and Polish
The Green Umbrella PHP Process: Steps Towards Achieving a Profiled, Honed, and Polished Floor
Polishing a floor is more than just opening the concrete and applying an acrylic sealer. The Green Umbrella PHP process is the art of mechanically and chemically processing a concrete floor through a series of profiling, honing, and polishing techniques to produce a reflective surface.
Substrate Preparation
Substrate preparation includes the removal of any floor coatings, tile, carpet, mastics, glue, etc.
Profiling
The concrete is opened, and surface blemishes are removed using heavy-duty grinders equipped with bonded, impregnated discs. Additional floor flattening may occur as well.
Densification/Hardeners
Various concrete treatments may be applied to dustproof, seal out potential contaminants, provide abrasion resistance, and repel salts, oils, etc.
Honing
Grinders and a bonded tool are used to mechanically produce a matte appearance and a slight clarity of reflection.
Penetrating Colorants
When desired, colorants may be introduced to a properly opened concrete substrate.
Polishing
The last step in the mechanical processing of the floor produces a clarity of reflection like a mirror and has a glass-like finish.
Penetrating MicroFilm
A concrete treatment may be applied to protect against foreign contaminants, oils, acids, etc.
Make sure your spec contains:
- Equipment: Achieve high production rates that will not impede other trade schedules
- Abrasives: The cut is as critical as the treatments
- Treatments: Hardener, color, MicroFilm
Polished Concrete Done Right
Some potential problems arise when polishing concrete. Green Umbrella has taken these issues and provided systems-based solutions to overcome them. Where other companies may fall short, we take the time and effort to ensure you are left with the best possible product.
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Rochester, NY 14624
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