Harvey Chichester

How to Reduce Cost When Using 100%-solids Epoxy

There are many epoxy products available for coating concrete floors. Choosing the proper one depends on what you are trying to accomplish and what you are willing to pay. Often you need to fill holes to smooth out your floor. Sometimes you need to appl... Read >

New Marketing Approach for Industrial Flooring Products

A kit-based approach to selling epoxy floor coatings is now being used to target both industrial and home users. These all-in-one kits have been developed with the recognition that people want to buy solutions not products. This outcome-based concept ens... Read >

Use Epoxy Joint Sealer to Stop Concrete Floor Vibration and Damage

Many heavy industrial settings, including paper warehouses, steel and other heavy-weight or high-traffic applications suffer from shaking concrete floors. The source of the vibration is most often caused by rolling equipment crossing expansion joints cut ... Read >

Technical help lines now walk you through home projects.

Now a new kit concept, brings proven technology to homeowners. Industrial Quality floors can now be installed by homeowners with 24/7 help lines. The trick to quality flooring is adhering to the substrate surface with out chipping pealing or lifting. Wh... Read >

Garage floor paint does not have to peel

Lifting and pealing paint is too often the end product of a homeowner’s efforts to dress up their garage with floor paint. The problem is worse than having no finish at all. Dirty, dusty, and stained concrete is usually accepted as the standard for home g... Read >

Epoxy floor paint tips and tricks that can save time and money.

Over the past 40 years of installing Epoxy a Urethane floor seals and coatings on Fortune 500 company concrete floors, as well as basements, garages, and decks, a few tricks have been learned. If you are about to coat your flooring you may want to avoid ... Read >

Epoxy floor paint projects: tips and tricks that save time and money

Here are useful tips learned during more than 40 years of installing epoxy urethane floor seals and coatings on Fortune 500 company concrete floors, as well as in basements, garages, and decks. These tips can help you avoid mistakes that can limit the lif... Read >

Coving meets health code for floors.

Most health codes for kitchens, food storage and preparation areas call for the walls to integrate into the floors. To achieve this, inspectors want a smooth easy to clean transition from your walls into the floor. You can eliminate hard to clean corner... Read >

Removing Adhesives From Concrete Floors

Anyone who has removed carpeting or VCT tile from concrete floors has probably suffered the horror of finding thick layers of adhesive smeared all over the surface. A realization sets in that your work is just beginning. Whether your goal is sealing out... Read >

Plus 3 Racing Mark Buoy System

3 Times the Visibility 1/3 The Wetted surface area 3 Times the Surface Area 1/3 The Anchor weight required 3 Times the height 1/3 The Deck & Storage Space required Boat Racing should not be a function of eyesight. What's the fun of r... Read >

A long heritage of fast boat bottoms that have circled the Globe

In the mid 1960's Francis Chichester caught the imagination of the Sailing World by sailing around the globe aboard the Gypsy Moth IV. At first glance single handingley sailing around the world looks like a one off stand-alone event. Later knighted, Sir... Read >

A Ship of the Line, A new sea battle tactic invented

The sea battle tactic of sailing in formation with Ships of the Line was first used by the British to fight the Spanish Armada in 1588. Up to this time a sea battle was mostly entering or boarding your opponent to engage in hand to hand battle called a... Read >

Secondary Containment areas reduce liability and costs.

Contamination caused by chemical and waste spills can be very expensive to clean up. The liability associated with spills is not limited to clean up. The testing required to identify if a spill has caused contamination can be very expensive and tie up r... Read >

Making walk in coolers and freezers safe and non slip.

Non slip cooler and freezer floors have reduced injuries and liability successfully for over 40 years. The long established and proven system for these floors was developed by 3M decades ago. With this system you use angular grains of colored quartz whi... Read >

How to smooth your boat bottom.

Typically fiberglass boat bottoms after several years of use become scratched and gouged from rocks, grounding, and flotsam. A one-inch scratch can produce turbulence for 12 to 18 in. down your hull. Turbulence interrupts smooth flow producing drag whic... Read >