{"id":187,"date":"2008-12-05T10:28:40","date_gmt":"2008-12-05T15:28:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.esdpros.com\/?p=40"},"modified":"2008-12-05T10:28:40","modified_gmt":"2008-12-05T15:28:40","slug":"conductive-flooring-in-an-explosive-environment","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.gndzero.com\/blog\/conductive-flooring-in-an-explosive-environment\/","title":{"rendered":"Conductive flooring in an &quot;explosive&quot; environment."},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Q:<\/strong> <span class=\"question\">We are an explosives manufacturer and are looking to repaint our conductive flooring. We subscribe to the standard NFPA requirements for conductive flooring. What is the best and most economical product to apply? Consider that the environment would be expected to be consistently wet.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"question\"><strong>A:<\/strong> We recommended (2) possible options, both of which would be completely monolithic and seamless due to the excessive liquids that will be present.<br \/>\nAnytime that you have explosives present, the floor will have to be &#8220;sparkproof&#8221; and fall into a conductive range, verses static dissipative.<br \/>\nThese are the two most important criteria for recommending a system for this environment. <\/span><\/p>\n<p>Out of these (2) systems, a <a title=\"Conductive Epoxy\" href=\"http:\/\/www.gndzero.com\/grounding_flooring_epoxy_epoxy.php\" target=\"_blank\">conductive epoxy<\/a> is going to be most cost effective, verse a thermally heat welded conductive vinyl system.<\/p>\n<p>Always best to consider a &#8220;professional&#8221; or approved factory <a title=\"Installation\" href=\"http:\/\/www.gndzero.com\/about.php\" target=\"_blank\">installation<\/a> for warranty consideration as well as certification that the floor meets the customers expectations and is actually going to get the job done.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Q: We are an explosives manufacturer and are looking to repaint our conductive flooring. We subscribe to the standard NFPA requirements for conductive flooring. What is the best and most economical product to apply? Consider that the environment would be expected to be consistently wet. A: We recommended (2) possible options, both of which would [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10,22],"tags":[47,61,98,114],"class_list":["post-187","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-flooring","category-surfaces","tag-conductive","tag-epoxy","tag-explosive","tag-installation"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gndzero.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/187","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gndzero.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gndzero.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gndzero.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gndzero.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=187"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.gndzero.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/187\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gndzero.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=187"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gndzero.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=187"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gndzero.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=187"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}