Floor paint is a special type of paint used indoors and outdoors to increase the durability of floors, provide an aesthetic appearance, and protect against various external factors. It can be used on different floor types such as concrete, wood, and ceramic. Thanks to its formulas resistant to high traffic, abrasion, water, chemicals, and UV rays, it offers a long-lasting and practical solution. Floor paints, which have a wide range of use from industrial facilities to residences, also enhance safety with their anti-slip properties.
High Performance Floor Paint: Traffic Paint
Traffic Paint is a high-performance floor paint. It provides excellent adhesion and long-lasting protection and an aesthetic appearance on various surfaces such as concrete, asphalt, ceramic, marble, metal, and wood. It has a wide range of applications from industrial facilities to residential spaces, indoors and outdoors. It stands out with its resistance to high traffic, abrasion, and easy cleaning. It is the best solution to protect your business or home floors for many years.
Product Features
The high-performance formula of Traffic Paint provides long-lasting protection and durability on various floor surfaces. Detailed features of the product can be found below.
- Strong Barrier Against Hairline Cracks: Its flexible structure bridges hairline cracks in the floor, preventing water infiltration and extending the surface’s lifespan.
- Water and Moisture Resistant: Resistant to all weather conditions. Water puddles formed on the surface evaporate easily without damaging it.
- Protection Against UV Rays: Maintains its original appearance outdoors for many years. Its special formula protects against harmful UV rays, preventing color fading or cracking.
- Fast Drying and Ready to Use: Opens to foot traffic just 24 hours after application and vehicle traffic after 7 days. Offers a fast and practical solution without disrupting your operations.
- Perfect Adhesion: Adheres perfectly to the applied surface. There are no problems such as peeling, blistering, or detachment even under any weather conditions.
Usage Areas
Traffic Paint is compatible with all floors. Suitable usage areas for floor paint include:
- Wide Surface Compatibility: Provides excellent adhesion on almost all surfaces such as concrete, asphalt, ceramic, marble, metal, and wood. It allows flawless application even on floors made of different materials.
- High Durability and Long Lifespan: Maintains its durability for many years thanks to superior adhesion. Resistant to wear, abrasion, and external factors.
- Versatile Usage: Can be safely used in high traffic areas such as garages, parking lots, bike lanes, walking paths, and outdoor sports fields. Ideal for coloring and marking works.
Application Instructions
Surface Preparation:
- The surface to be painted must be thoroughly cleaned from all dirt, oil, dust, and loose particles. High-pressure water or suitable cleaners can be used.
- Old paint layers must be completely removed by scraping, sanding, or abrasive methods.
- All cracks, holes, and cavities in the surface should be repaired with suitable repair materials (polyurethane mastic, epoxy mortar, etc.).
- All oil stains and other contaminants must be cleaned with special solvents.
- Important: Ensure the surface is completely dry. Do not apply on moist or wet surfaces.
Paint Preparation:
- Mix according to instructions and adjust to the desired consistency.
- Attention: Thinning should be done only with the thinner recommended by the manufacturer. Excessive thinning may reduce paint durability.
Application:
- Tool Selection: Synthetic epoxy rollers, brushes, or airless machines can be used for application. Airless machines are preferred for large areas, rollers or brushes for smaller areas.
- Number of Coats: For best results, apply two coats. Apply the second coat after the first coat is completely dry.
- Application Temperature: Ambient and surface temperature should be between +5°C and +30°C. Do not apply in very low or high temperatures.
- Waiting Time Between Coats: Allow at least 4 hours between coats. This time may vary depending on weather conditions and paint properties.
Additional Recommendations:
- Surface Profile: Slight roughness can be added to the surface for better adhesion.
- Masking: Use masking tape around the application area to prevent paint from spreading to unwanted places.
- Safety: Use protective clothing, gloves, and goggles during application.
- Drying Time: It is important to wait the recommended time for the paint to fully dry.
- Storage: Store the paint in a cool, dry place away from direct sunlight.
Special Cases:
- Old Asphalt: When applying on old asphalt surfaces, the surface should be sanded and cleaned first. Primer use may also be beneficial.
- Concrete: When applying on concrete surfaces, dust and loose particles should be thoroughly cleaned. If concrete is highly absorbent, use of primer is recommended.
The surface coated with Traffic Paint can be opened to foot traffic after 24 hours and to vehicle traffic after 7 days, ensuring effective painting. When the correct painting process is followed, the paint remains durable for a long time without color fading.
Consumption: Average of 350 – 400 gr/m² in two coats. An 18 kg package covers approximately 45-50 m² in two coats.
Storage Conditions: Shelf life is 12 months. Use within 6 months after opening. Store away from direct sunlight.
Packaging: 18 kg and 5 kg Metal Bucket
Floor Paint Technical SpecificationTraffic Paint Colors
Dryfix Traffic Paint has a wide range of colors including White, Yellow, Light Gray, Dark Gray, Blue, Red, and Green. For special needs, you can specify a color code from the RAL chart for a custom floor paint.
Which Paint is Used as Floor Paint?
Floors are painted with specially produced paints. These paints have waterproof, UV resistant, scratch and impact resistant, dust and dirt resistant formulas. Dryfix Traffic Paint provides full protection when applied to any floor surface. Traffic Paint, specially made for painting and marking, adheres firmly to the surface and remains durable for a long time thanks to its special formula.
Ready to use, Dryfix Traffic Paint can be safely used on all surfaces with heavy foot and vehicle traffic. You can purchase this product in 5kg and 18kg options, available in Yellow, Black, Blue, Red, Green, White, Light Gray, and Dark Gray colors.
Frequently Asked Questions About Floor Paint
Floors are painted with polyurethane or epoxy resin-based paints that have high abrasion resistance suitable for foot and vehicle traffic.
The suitable paint must have these features;
– UV resistance,
– Elasticity with stretch capability,
– Waterproof,
– Hydrophobic to prevent water absorption,
– Tensile and adhesion strength greater than 2.00 N/mm².
5 kg of floor paint covers 12-13 m² in two coats. Consumption per square meter is 350-400 gr/m².
For waterproofing applications 5 kg floor paint covers approximately 5 – 6 m² with a consumption of 750 – 1000 gr/m².
18 kg of floor paint covers 45-50 m² in two coats. Consumption per square meter is 350-400 gr/m².
For waterproofing applications 18 kg floor paint covers approximately 18 – 24 m² with a consumption of 750 – 1000 gr/m².
Floor paint is water resistant. Water resistance tests have proven that it is as waterproof as a waterproofing material. Thanks to particle adhesion, it prevents water penetration and creates a barrier that stops water from reaching underneath the surface. For waterproofing applications, it is applied in three coats with a consumption of 750 gr/m² to achieve maximum water resistance.
Road marking paint is an alkyd resin-based paint. Floor paint is a single-component, solvent-based polyurethane resin paint. This difference results in advantages and disadvantages in usage. For example, alkyd resins have low yellowing resistance, are hard and brittle, so they can only be used in small areas like line marking. Due to their high filler content, they are dense and their consumption is about 1 kg/m².
Compared to this, floor paints have lower density allowing higher coverage with thinner layers. Due to their elasticity, they can be applied over large areas. They can also be used as waterproofing materials. These are the main differences.
Because the paint resin is dissolved with a solvent called xylene, it can be thinned with readily available cellulosic thinner. For an 18 kg package, 0.5 liters (half a liter) of cellulosic thinner can be used for thinning.
When applying in open areas with high temperatures, the solvent in the product evaporates faster than in closed and room temperature environments, so cellulosic thinner can be added for thinning. For an 18 kg package, 0.5 liters (half a liter), for a 5 kg package, 0.15 liters (150 grams) of cellulosic thinner can be used.
Prices vary depending on package weight and requested color options. Colors like yellow, red, and orange are relatively more expensive due to pigment differences compared to colors like white, gray, and black. Floor paint prices range between 2,610 TL and 5,355 TL.
Floor paint’s initial touch dry time is 1 hour, and it fully dries in 2 hours to form a healthy film. After 2 hours wait, you can apply the second coat. After the last coat, wait another 2 hours before opening to foot traffic.
After applying two coats, it can be opened to foot traffic in 2 hours, and to vehicle and forklift traffic after 7 days.
Not rushing and respecting the maximum waiting times will improve the quality and durability of the paint film.
Under normal conditions, primer is not required. However, if the floor has old paint residues or dust that reduce adhesion, Dryfix DFP 800 Solvent-based Epoxy Primer should be used. If the concrete to be painted is weak, crumbly, and subject to heavy vehicle traffic, Dryfix DFC 100 Solvent-free Epoxy Primer should be applied.
If there is no demand for tire marks prevention, easier cleaning, or extra gloss, topcoat application is not necessary.
For areas like auto repair shops and inspection centers with intensive vehicle traffic and high abrasion risk, one or two coats of Dryfix Betolac Concrete Topcoat can be applied after the paint to protect against tire and wheel marks.
Floor paint is impact resistant except against sharp metal objects.
It can be used for a long time in areas with foot and vehicle traffic. The presence of rubber wheels on all items moved on the surface increases impact resistance. Using DFC 100 coating primer also makes the paint application more durable.
Depending on usage conditions, it is 2 years under normal usage.
Highly used areas will wear faster locally compared to other areas. You can repair these regions with the same paint to extend the overall service life.
1. Clean the surface before application.
2. If there are old paint residues or surface hardeners, perform sanding with a sanding machine.
3. Repair any cracks with Dryfix Dfr 2000 epoxy putty.
4. Thin with cellulosic thinner according to usage area and air temperature.
5. Select and apply primer depending on surface condition.
6. Double coat application is recommended.
7. Observe traffic opening times.
It is recommended to apply with synthetic epoxy rollers. For faster progress and higher daily coverage, airless spray machines and paint compressors can also be used.
It is suitable for indoor use. Due to being solvent-based, odors may occur during application. It is recommended to ventilate indoor spaces during and after application.
It is suitable for outdoor use. It contains a resin resistant to UV rays, making it safe for outdoor use. Suitable for foot and vehicle traffic.
It can be applied in all seasons except rainy and snowy weather. In hot weather, faster solvent evaporation can shorten drying times, which may cause roller or brush marks; this risk can be balanced by adding the recommended amount of thinner. In cold weather, drying times may be extended.
Make sure the surface is dry as moisture weakens adhesion and may cause bubbles when temperature rises. Moisture control should be considered along with weather conditions.
Depending on ventilation, the odor typically disappears within 1-2 hours.
Dryfix Traffic Paint is UV resistant. The color does not fade. An annual color change of about 20% is considered normal.
After painting, normal cleaning and maintenance can be done. We recommend using plenty of water and foam-based cleaning products as strong detergents and chemicals can accelerate paint wear.
It does not have anti-slip properties. After application, slip resistance can be achieved with Dryfix Anti-Slip Varnish ISG 6331.
When applying Traffic Paint, pay attention to:
1. Surface preparation,
2. Primer selection,
3. Correct equipment selection such as roller, brush, or machine,
4. Waiting time between coats,
5. Minimum waiting times before opening to traffic.
Floor paint can be applied on wood, plastic, tiles, ceramic, concrete, asphalt, etc. Procedures before and after painting may vary depending on the floor type.
For tiles and ceramic surfaces, roughening with anti-slip solution is recommended before painting. Primer is recommended for rough surfaces with low adhesion.
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