Labour saved is money earned: With a few simple tips, coating contractors can save labour and make more money without sacrificing quality

摘要

For coating contractors, time is money and the labor of applying a coating can be 60 to 80% of a job's cost. While the quality of a coating's protection is key to industrial or commercial jobs, cutting the labor in applying the coating is critical to make any job more profitable - but this has been difficult with traditional coatings. Fortunately, a new type of ceramic coating has promise in reducing labor by increasing the speed of application and flexibility of application times. The essential problem with traditional coatings is that they usually require a prime coat and two topcoats with about eight hours drying time between each. Since this typically requires multiple days of application, the contractor's crew not only must travel to the job site each day, but also clean and prepare the site to be sprayed, set up spraying equipment, apply the coating, then break down equipment at the day's end. Traditionally, this labor-intensive process must be repeated for each coating - even though the contractor is only paid for the end result.