Building a HVLP room need floor advice ASAP

[mgj]

Framed out my Sunless HVLP spray room today, its going to be a vented booth w/FRP (think gas station bathroom) sheets on the walls for easy clean up. I need to know what is the best material for the floor. I was going to go with a highly finished ceramic tile for this room and a rear halway area, but I'm hearing that tile is not good , and to use stick down floor tiles. I also have some Pergo left over from the rest of the salon, but I question it's durability. What has your experience shown, are your happy with your choices?? Floor is going in this week, Spray next week.


Thanks in advance,

MGJ

[springboktanning]

Dont kow toomuch about those floors, but we have stained concrete which is practical. We alsohave a airbrush booth which sucks upmost of the overspray, and the cusomer stands on a mat which came with the booth. We dont have any problems with the walls, but backpart of the mat needs cleaning as well as small areas of the booth after each client.I found that it was hard toclean up the overspray when we 1st got the booth, but just by chance i bought a bottle of kaboom for general cleaning, and found it cleans the mat and certain areas of the booth without toomuch effort

[mgj]

Thanks I also heard Simple green works good, Does the stained concrete clean easy? By the way Pergo is the fake laminate wood floor that is suppose to wear like iron(we will see).

thanks

[frankie]

We have stained concrete also. Great and not much to keep it looking good. Walls all the way the ceiling. Not much overspray at all. We have the caltan custom bronzer and use the Norvell back drop that sucks any overspay into a filter. BTW the backdrop has my logo on it and it really looks good.

[Brian Oshman]

Epoxy paint.

[mgj]

Thought about epoxy, Home Depot sells all kind of colors. But I did not wnat it to look like a converted garage(which it is a giant cooler from when it was a butcher shop, dressed up and converted to a spray room, and the old freezer is my HP room). I am still debating, but leaning towards ceramic tile unless someone has a good reason to not go that way.

mgj

[JustTans23]

I did mine with epoxy paint, and glittered the floor afterwards. Sounds REALLY feminine. But I think it came out good and its not too girly. It goes with the rest of salon decor. I'm not at the salon today but I'll try to get pics to you soon. But even if you don't glitter it, I'm sure there is other things you could do to it to not make it look like a garage.

[mgj]

Thanks, I may use the epoxy idea but they will revoke my man-card if I use glitter.

mgj

[Tan_Lines]

I used the same material on the walls and on the floor; the "fake tile" sheets like they sell at Home Depot for use in showers, etc. put some on the back wall, and one full sheet over the carpet already in the room where the person stands. Easy to clean up after, and if any get too dirty, I just take em down and go and buy another to replace....easy!

[mgj]

I am actually building a room in the back of the salon( it is an old butcher shop large walk in cooler with iron beams to hang meat from), I have painted concrete and was leaning towards tile but someone on tan talk said it will be too slick anyone have experience with tile and spray tan. Otherwise I am leaning towards the epoxy sans glitter idea.

mgj

[JustTans23]

HAHA I dont blame you. I wasn't expecting you to like the glitter idea. Just wanted to let you know the epoxy worked.

[mgj]

Thanks again for all the help, hey how is your parking prob.?? Are you a Parking Nazi yet??

mgj

[JustTans23]

no problems lately. I started writing down the times they were there unloading the can and taking pictures...they noticed I was keeping track and stopped parking out front. I think they do it when I'm closed now. Even my parents aren't allowed to park out front! haha Thanks for turning me into a Parking Nazi. It helped!

[EliteMike]

I want pictures mgj

[mgj]

No prob be done in a few days, once I figue this F'n floor.

mgj

[EliteMike]

do you have an industrial look going there?

[nebtans]

Tile, Ceramic tile, will be VERY SLICK from overspray. You MUST SEAL the grout or the solution will stain it and as it oxidizes it will turn all sorts of colors. You can seal the tile with any common floor sealer, but it will still be slippery... unless you include an anti slip product.

Sunless solution... should clean well with simple water... HOT water works best. Solution will stain aything porous. IT will even stain or destroy Melamine board.

Lioleum, sticky tile, concrete floors all work well.

As for a mat.. In our salon we use a large beach towel folded in half for the client to stand on. After the client.. we refold the towel to a fresh clean side. Thus we get four tans before washing the towel.

MAke CERTAIN that the solution cannot be sucked into the evaporator of your HVAC.

God luck to you.. If you want to try calling me.. I will be back in Cell area Friday.

[The Freshness]

I like my Laminate wood foor for my airbrush room. It's already brown and hides overspray well.

[mgj]

Bought commercial tile for the room, and hallway. Was very tempted by the uber cool tile in the tile store, rough surface granite look. But @ 69 cents per foot comm tile is hard to beat. Wears like iron, fairly non slip if you do not wax it (no prob there).

The room came together great, added another hvac supply vent today. It was so cold in there the drywall mud did not dry overnight, so an extra supply stolen from the bathroom should help. Put in FRP and dropped ceiling today, tiling in the AM. Painting and finishing the three doors over weekend, and we should be spraying on MON.

Elite mike , no not going for any Industrial look, just playing industrial music 24/7. Actually I am hiding all of the Iron by bring ing out the walls a bit and putting in the dropped ceiling. I do not want people to know it was a cooler before, same w/ my HP room, it was a freezer in past life (one foot thick walls stop radio reception).

[JustTans23]

pictures?