[labnetwork] Flooring - ISO 5/6

[Vito Logiudice]

Hi Loïk,

I won¹t add to the already excellent comments which have been made in
regards to your ESD considerations. I will however share my somewhat
negative experience with epoxy. We operated five years out of a temporary
cleanroom here in Waterloo in which static dissipative epoxy was used as a
covering over a concrete slab on grade floor (at least I think it was
static dissipative if memory serves me correctly). After about two to
three years, we found that the epoxy started to flake and peel in high
wear areas such as in front of commonly used workstations.

I personally prefer the welded vinyl sheet approach described by Jack
Paul. This worked very well for us in a couple of other cleanroom projects
I worked on many years ago.

Best regards,
Vito
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University of Waterloo
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Waterloo, ON           Canada N2L 3G1
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Email: vito.logiudice at uwaterloo.ca
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-----Original Message-----
From: Loïk GENCE <Loik.gence at cetuc.puc-rio.br>
Date: Tuesday, May 12, 2015 at 2:44 PM
To: "labnetwork at mtl.mit.edu" <labnetwork at mtl.mit.edu>
Subject: [labnetwork] Flooring - ISO 5/6

>
>Dear All,
>
>I would like to get some suggestions about of flooring for a small
>cleanroom ISO 5/6.
>We are thinking about a dissipative epoxi flooring with copper tape for
>grounding.
>
>Do you have some experience with this kind of flooring. Is there an
>alternative to epoxi?
>
>Thank you for your comments.
>
>
>Regards,
>Loïk
>
>
>
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