SIDEBAR: Coatings Checklist — Application Considerations

The Society for Protective Coatings (SSPC) offers maintenance and engineering managers in institutional and commercial facilities a coating specification checklist for concrete coating projects on its website, www.sspc.org.

The checklist is a supplement extracted from the SSPC’s Technical Insight Report Preparing and Using Protective Coating Specifications. It is a free download on the SSPC’s website in the Technical Insight Report area. Items commonly covered in a specification for coating applications include:

• condition in the container being used
• the ratio by volume of the components to combine
• instruction for mixing components
• amount of thinner, if any, permitted
• ambient conditions for application and curing
• induction time at different temperatures
• pot life at different temperatures
• allowable application methods
• stripe coating
• protection areas not to be coated
• protection of painted surface during curing
• initial cure period
• recoat window
• acceptable wet/dry film-thickness ranges
• the amount of allowable and special requirements