Welded Seam Sheet Vinyl Flooring

Several commercial sheet vinyl flooring products today come with enhanced factory applied coatings.

Welded seam sheet vinyl flooring.

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. Scorching of the flooring at the seams and seam splitting. With sheet vinyl you use a thermo fusion process a combination of melting and fusion between the rod and the flooring material. 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.

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. 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. Chemical weld guide chemical welds. Lab tests of properly welded seams showed no growth of staph and.

Solid weld rod note. 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. 3rd party research shows that net fit seams are as hygienic in hospital settings as heat welded sheet vinyl. 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.

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. The most common failures we see are. Benefits of eliminating heat welding. Benefits of eliminating heat welding are.

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. Different types of welding needs to be 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. The through pattern chip construction throughout the entire thickness provides superior gouge abrasion and indentation resistance.

1 866 634 1189 mon fri 8 00am 4 30pm cst. Doing so will cause a job failure and seams that will open up over time. With linoleum a bonding process between the linoleum and the rod is used. Remember to allow the.

Armstrong flooring provides weld rods designed to be used in conjunction with our homogeneous and heterogeneous commercial sheet flooring.