A County Derry company, Ranly Floor and Ceiling Services Ltd, are offering a new service with the all-important Green Energy factor. This would be of interest to anybody doing a new build home or extending their home by adding a conservatory or sunroom or extending a kitchen area.
The product is Polished Concrete. So what makes this process Green?
Reduces impacts from construction or demolition
Reduces heating and cooling loads
Alternative to hazardous components (Epoxies, Resins etc)
Exceptional durability and low-maintenance
Releases minimal pollutants
Polishing concrete is a relatively new technique for turning both new and old concrete slabs into attractive, durable, finished floors. HTC Sweden have pioneered this process of grinding, polishing, and chemically hardening (densifying) concrete in the 1990s, and its system has now been used on more than 100 million square feet of flooring. The HTC Superfloor process was developed by combining European stone-grinding and polishing technology with concrete hardening and densifying agents that had been used in North America. In the process, large walk-behind diamond-wheel grinders remove between 1/20th and 1/4 inch of the concrete floor surface. Consecutively finer-grit grinding and polishing wheels achieve a fine polish (up to 3,000-grit). During the polishing process, sodium silicate is applied; this is absorbed and reacts with the calcium hydroxide in the concrete to form calcium silicate hydrate, which crystallizes within the concrete matrix. The resultant concrete surface is highly durable, easy to maintain, free of VOC emissions, and more reflective (which can reduce light level requirements). The system enables the concrete slab to serve as the finished floor surface, thus reducing material use. Polish Concrete was voted one of the Top-10 Green Building Products for 2006 by BuildingGreen.com
Suspended Ceiling Restoration
The CeilCote process is a unique airless spray treatment specifically developed for the application of ceiling restoration coatings. Suspended Ceiling Restoration coatings are inexpensive coatings that can be applied to any ceiling surface and associated grids without sticking tiles to grids, 100% acoustics are maintained and subjected to the class O fire rating part 6&7. All our ceiling restoration coatings are water-based and environment friendly. As responsible companies we should all do our part to minimize our carbon footprint. Our goal is to educate commercial and retail properties to retain there ceilings over a longer period of time by having them sprayed. By adhering to this procedure, we will decrease our dumping and help improve our environment.
www.kitchensireland.com and www.conservatoryireland.com, leading online publications, welcomed the new process as being another means of reducing carbon emissions in refurbishing or extending homes.
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