Field Notes: Industrial Flooring Engineering, Written From the Floor
Field Notes is the working journal of Maverick Performance Solutions — install stories, specification guidance, and engineering calls from the team that manufactures and installs industrial resinous flooring across Michigan, Ohio, and the Midwest. Every post is written from real floors: the substrate conditions we found, the systems we specified, and the reasoning behind each call.
Spec Guidance You Can Act On
No fluff, no filler — each note answers a question we actually get on site walks, and links to the system build-ups and services it applies to.
Why Epoxy Floors Fail: Moisture, Prep, and the Three Mistakes We Fix Most
Peeling, blistering, and delamination almost never start with the coating. The three causes we find most on failed floors — moisture vapor, inadequate surface prep, and the wrong system for the exposure — and how each one is prevented before the first coat goes down.
Read the NoteUrethane Cement vs. Epoxy: Which Survives Thermal Shock?
When hot washdown meets a cold slab, chemistry decides whether the floor stays down. How we choose between MavCrete urethane cement and MavCoat epoxy — by temperature swing, exposure, and schedule.
Read the NoteWhat CSP Profile Your Slab Needs Before Coating
Most floor failures are prep failures. A field guide to concrete surface profiles — what CSP numbers mean, which profile each system requires, and why the grind or shot-blast spec matters more than the coating over it.
Read the NoteMore notes are on the way. In the meantime, the deeper technical library lives in the Architect Center — dimensioned details, CSI 3-part specifications, and shop drawings — and every quantitative claim in these posts traces to the product data sheets behind our nine Mav product families and 36 products.
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