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Description: growingexposed.com growingexposed.com/setting-up-a-commercial-grow-room-floor 00:00 Intro 00:27 Installation Description 01:53 Prep Is Critical 02:14 Covering The Floors 02:43 Easy To Clean 03:04 Can You Adhere A Product Like This To Wood? 03:09 Polyurethane 03:34 What Happens If You Use A Product That Is Not UV Stable? 03:48 Why Use White? 04:21 Sealing Openings between The Floor and The Wall. 05:22 Finish Setting Up A Commercial Grow Room Floor - In the process of building out cannabis cultivation facilities, setting up the perfect grow room flooring is one of the first and most important steps toward creating an easy to clean, highly reflective, and sanitary environment that meets all of the building codes and state agency requirements.  Even as a home grower, getting the perfect floor install done can do wonders for your indoor garden creating ideal conditions for moisture resistance, abrasion resistance, chemical resistance, and UV resistance. Whether you want to optimize your at-home indoor garden or start your commercial grow room operation, our grow room floor tips can help any growing facility, big or small, create perfect indoor environments. Why Grow Room Flooring Is So Important? If you're looking to optimize your production facilities, you need to overcome the common challenges of your facility's subfloor, whether it's concrete, wood, tile, or another construction material. Leaving your subfloor bare can pose many challenges to growing cannabis. For instance, concrete, the most common substrate used, is naturally porous allowing for the absorption of moisture and liquids. Leaving the floors untreated can eventually seep through the floor and contaminate the soil and groundwater. In addition, you have to worry about moisture vapor transmission (MVT) if the under-slab vapor barrier is damaged during construction. Moisture vapor under the concrete floor slab can naturally rise and cause the floor coating to bubble or blister. The right floor room coating can protect the concrete underneath with its durable and abrasion and chemical resistant structure. Besides, it can provide slip resistance for better traction and help reduce the risk of spreading and growth of microbes, pathogens, and fungi. In terms of commercial flooring needs, state and local guidelines for cannabis grow facilities may require them to meet similar industry standards to those in the food and beverage processing and pharmaceutical manufacturing industries. Floors must be durable, smooth, and non-absorbent, so they are easy to clean. Also, the floor should properly slope towards a drain for proper drainage and proper clean-up. A resinous floor coating system can provide the necessary wall base and seamless build to meet strict requirements. Resinous floor coating provides a seamless flooring surface that is impenetrable for fluids and chemicals and easy to clean. During the installation, wall bases eliminate 90-degree angles to reduce puddling and leakage. A floor coating with thermal shock resistance ensures the regular steam cleaning of floors doesn’t affect the integrity of the coat. Low thermal-shock-resistant floors may develop cracks leading to areas where microbes, bugs, and fungi can grow. Finally, the right type of floor with a highly reflective surface can improve the lighting efficiency of your indoor garden and increase your yields over time. Completely white and highly reflective floor surfaces can help light bounce back to the underside of leaves and reach every angle of the canopy for deeper light penetration and reduced energy costs. Generally, most grow room renovations will deal with concrete floors. When working with concrete surfaces, however, you must consider the challenges of keeping them dry and clean. Concrete may require mechanical preparation involving light grinding or shot blasting before coating. Wood  Wood subfloors can also suffer from moisture problems since they can absorb humidity and kick up dust if not properly sealed. During its preparation, the seams must be caulked to avoid leaking of the coating. Tile A less common subfloor, tile, can be coated but first may require grinding down as much of the tile as possible. Without preparation, it can be too slippery when wet, which affects worker safety. Its grout lines can attract moisture, dirt, and mold. Coating Material Once the surface has been prepared, it's time to apply the resin floor coating. Most resinous flooring systems are long-lasting and won't emit any harsh chemicals that can affect the health of the plant and the workers.