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Concrete floor coatings, repair, decoration etc.

Experience in the area

Harvey Chichester is a well published principal of Durall Industrial Flooring, a company with more than 40 years experience in developing special flow-coatings for industrial and residential floors. Automotive and shopping centers, breweries, food processing plants, manufacturing plants, airplane hangars, car washes, kennels, warehouses, printing plants, residential basements, pool decks, and condominiums are among some of the facilities in which he has installed floors. http:\\www.concrete-floor-coatings.com

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Durall Manufacturing, Bloomington, MN, is the only industrial flooring manufacturer that also makes over 500 specialty cleaners. Durall’s 40 years of flooring chemical manufacturing experience has produced a special preparation of cleaners and an application system assuring optimum flooring adhesion and wear results. Durall provides factory-direct support for these new products. Kits of materials are customized to owner specification and delivered directly to the job site. Kits include full directions and 24/7 help lines staffed by seasoned flooring experts, so professionals and amateurs alike can successfully install a quality floor. Visitors can obtain free, job-specific quotes on materials or nationwide turnkey installations by completing a simple questionnaire at www.concrete-floor-coatings.com. This full-service concept allows anyone to enjoy the benefits of industrial strength floors successfully

Publications

Google shoes over 3,000 publication listings where articles of Harvey Chichester are presented

Education/Credentials

MBA, BSB, BA University of Minnesota

Past/Present Clients

Pillsbury, General Mills, Iowa Beef, Cremates, Japs Olson Printing, Banta Printing, Airforce, Coast Guard, Marines, Northwest Airlines etc.

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2009-11-19 basement floor:

Water coming up is a hard problem to fix. If it were my floor I would pull up the tile. Do an aggressive cleaning and scraping prep job and put down two coats of epoxy. Epoxy is two parts and will not

2009-11-18 Concrete breezeway patched and ugly:

You can order epoxy in any available color, with flat catalyst. This will give a flat nonshiny surface that looks vary modern. Flat finishes also hide imperfections much better, and tend to look clean

2009-11-18 Levelling a basement room floor:

If I were fixing your problem I would prep the floor, grout the cracks, then float a latex carpet leveler in the low spot, followed by two coats of epoxy. The epoxy is to seal the floor and keep moisture

2009-11-03 epoxy floor:

Dear James, Epoxy likes to stick to epoxy. You should have no problem applying a colored coat of a two part epoxy to your existing floor. Usually you can just clean and apply. If you can I would

2009-10-28 tenacious thin set:

A overlay thin set will most likely just brake off quickly. An 100% epoxy coating may work but is the thin set under it may break up over time anyway. Sorry there are no good choices for you. You can

 

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