FEATURES

Easily applied by rake and trowel
Hard wearing - extremely durable and abrasion resistant with low maintenance cost
Facilitates rapid application
Resistant to a wide range of chemicals and liquids
Independently tested - suitable for use in food and drinks production environments
Seamless - easily cleaned to maintain high standards of hygiene
Resistant to thermal shock - at 9 mm thick can withstand steam cleaning regimes

STANDARD COLORS

Available to any standard RAL Card upon request

SURFACE PREPARATION

The concrete or screed substrate must be hard, sound and free of dust and other barrier materials such as paint, lime coatings, plaster, curing agents, laitance, adhesive residues etc, that will inhibit adhesion to the substrate.

Use suitable Degreaser to remove polish, wax, grease, oil and similar contaminating substances prior to mechanical preparation. Contaminated concrete surfaces should be mechanically prepared, either by scabbling, grinding or contained shot blasting equipment or similar, and be vacuumed clean prior to applying CLICRETE HD. Overwatered or otherwise weak concrete surfaces must also be suitably prepared down to sound, solid concrete by mechanical methods. Dust and other debris should be removed using vacuum equipment.

NOTE : Any joints or cracks in the concrete base where differential movement is anticipated e.g. movement joints, should be brought through to the finished surface and suitably sealed. New concrete slabs must be allowed to cure for at least 14 days.

To ensure maximum bond, grooves must be cut into the perimeter of the sub-floor, typically 8 mm deep by 8 mm wide. These should be inset approximately 100mm from and running parallel with the walls and adjacent to doorways and plinths etc., including any finishing edges and day joints. The grooves must have clean, square edges and the product laid into the full depth of the groove forming a perimeter anchorage. Grooves should surround areas not exceeding 20 m².

STEEL PLATES

Steel decking must be clean, sound and properly supported to prevent flexing. Deck plate of less than 4mm thick is not recommended. Surfaces should be shot blasted to SA2.5 and primed using IF 3E Solvent Free Epoxy Primer.

PRIMING

All appropriate substrates to receive CLICRETE HD must first be primed with IF 3 E Solvent Free Epoxy Primer. One or more coats of primer may be required depending upon the condition and porosity of the concrete substrate. The final coat of IF 3E Solvent Free Epoxy Primer must be seeded with Fine Aggregate to aid application.

MIXING

The contents of Part A and Part B of CLICRETE HD must first be mixed together for 1 minute, using forced action, in a suitably sized mixing vessel. The contents of Part C and Part D pigment sachet should then be introduced into the mixed resin and mixed together for a further 2 minutes to create one homogeneous mix. One or more packs may be mixed at the same time in order to maintain a quick rate of installation.

APPLICATION

The mixed material should be applied to the prepared and primed surface without delay using a pin rake to achieve the desired thickness and closed with a steel trowel.

NOTE : If a smoother texture is required, as soon as the product has been laid and as work progresses, the surface should be gently rolled with a short piled roller in order to provide an even surface appearance. Do not over roll the surface, as this will reduce the texture of the surface finish. Do not re-roll later.

The work area should be protected during the installation process and during the initial curing time to ensure that no airborne debris can contaminate the surface of the wet resin as this will lead to unwanted blemishes in the hardened, cured surface.

All movement joints in the sub-floor must be carried through the topping and properly sealed. Construction joints and cracks not subject to movement may be overlaid but should the floor move in anyway, these defects will reflect through the system. Isolation joints will need to be allowed for in areas where high thermal movement is anticipated, e.g. around ovens and freezers.

LIMITATIONS

CLICRETE HD should only be applied at temperatures above 5 degree C and where the atmospheric relative humidity (RH) is 90% or below. Floors should have an RH of 75% or less. For floors with an RH of more than 75%, the entire floor area should be treated with CLI DPM Surface Damp Proof Membrane applied and seeded with Fine Aggregate, in accordance with the current product data sheet, in place of IF 3 E Solvent Free Epoxy Primer. The substrate should have a surface tensile strength of at least 1.5 N/mm² .

CLICRETE HD and primer / CLI DPM Surface Damp Proof Membrane may be applied to substrates of a lower strength but long term performance may be impaired. Once the mixed material has exceeded its pot life, the viscosity and the characteristics of the product will change and any unused product should be discarded at this time.

CLEANING

CLICRETE HD can be removed from tools and equipment by using CLI RTC 100 immediately after use. Any hardened material will need to be removed mechanically.

PROPERTIES

The values shown are typical of results obtained in the laboratory at 27 ± 1ºC. Actual performance values obtained on site may vary from those quoted.

PHYSICAL PROPERTIES

IF 2 E should be allowed to cure prior to the installation of the final floor finish, typically 24 hours at 27 ± 1ºC.