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Welded seam sheet vinyl flooring.
Chemical welding also referred to as cold welding is the process of chemically fusing two sheets of resilient sheet vinyl flooring together at the seam.
Scorching of the flooring at the seams and seam splitting.
Doing so will cause a job failure and seams that will open up over time.
Benefits of eliminating heat welding.
Weld rods can be combined with flash coving to provide superior seam strength and tightness preventing dirt and moisture from getting under the floor in spaces it matters most.
Armstrong flooring provides weld rods designed to be used in conjunction with our homogeneous and heterogeneous commercial sheet flooring.
Armstrong homogeneous vinyl sheet flooring is the industry standard for aseptic healthcare applications like operating rooms and surgical suites as well as other medical environments.
A properly executed chemical weld can provide the appearance of a seamless floor and is chosen due to aesthetics.
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Heat welding made its debut in 1960s and 1970s in the united states with welded vinyl sheet flooring and welding rods produced by a then little european company known as tarkett.
The through pattern chip construction throughout the entire thickness provides superior gouge abrasion and indentation resistance.
With sheet vinyl you use a thermo fusion process a combination of melting and fusion between the rod and the flooring material.
Leveraging our years of experience manufacturing hard and soft surface flooring we have designed our portfolio of products resilient sheet lvt and our integra hp performance broadloom carpet to be chemically welded to each other creating truly seamless transitions from surface to surface.
When installing timberline ambigu stonerun safety zone medintech medintone medinpure accolade plus rejuvenations restore possibilities or corlon against any other vinyl sheet flooring at doorways and hallways seams can be heat welded using solid color weld rod and a 4 or 5 mm round nozzle.
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The goal for heat welded seams to position pvc sheet flooring so it could compete with other seamless floors in the marketplace such as epoxy poured.
3rd party research shows that net fit seams are as hygienic in hospital settings as heat welded sheet vinyl.
Different types of welding needs to be used.
With linoleum a bonding process between the linoleum and the rod is used.
Reduced overall installed cost improved aesthetics with no weld lines to disrupt the visual and accent the seams improved environmental performance with substantial reduction in co2 footprint.
Benefits of eliminating heat welding are.
The most common failures we see are.
In some cases the weld rod can be easily pulled from the groove or there are sections along the seam where the weld rod is missing.
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