Industrial Floor Expansion Joints

Unprotected joints without steel edge protectors suffer.

Industrial floor expansion joints.

Balco expansion joint systems and seismic joint covers are the vanguards of architecturally specified products. We constantly innovate and incorporate the latest technology to protect commercial buildings from damage due to fires and movement from thermal expansion wind or earthquakes. Keyed joints are not recommended for industrial floors. For this reason they are essential when laying floors over large areas.

The most common types of joints formed in commercial or industrial floors are contraction expansion and construction joints. Usually expansion joints are engineered in the floor at the time of construction but joints may be added at any time in the life of the floor. Aware of this key function profilpas designed a range of floor movement joints able to accommodate the expansion and contraction of materials caused by seasonal temperature excursions. There are two different types of expansion joint engineered expansion joints.

Custom sizing materials and color finishes ensure that whatever you need for your project we ve got you covered. Our commercial building products are shipped direct from our central manufacturing facility or from one of our strategically located stocking locations nystrom delivers the expansion joints you need. Atex explosion proof wall protection expansion joints suspend scaffolding the essential task of planning when designing an industrial floor concrete is to avoid weaknesses and thus to reduce to a minimum that damage is avoided and the functionality of the industrial floor remains. This can wear them down and sometimes cause cracking which poses additional safety issues to personnel operating equipment as the uneven floor could damage pallet trucks or cause an accident.

Joints in industrial floors are the source of many long term durability problems. Floor movement joints play an important role namely allowing expansion and contraction movements in floors. Saw cut joints should be done within 4 to 12 hours after the concrete has been finished. Unfortunately a typical slab would develop significant random cracking without contraction joints on a 15 foot grid.

These joints are planned pre construction and will usually be through the complete depth of the concrete slab. As expansion joints are often present in warehouses factories or other industrial construction buildings they are also often traversed by heavy machinery as well as vehicles. When using joint groove for contraction joints the joint should be a minimum depth of thickness of the slab. From parking garages to hospitals schools shopping centers hotels airports etc balco s priority is.

Dry cut joints should be made between 1 to 4 hours after completion of finishing.