Floors of ceramic stone or concrete are the worst culprits with hardwood a runner up.
Cold room concrete floor.
In fact the problem could well be your floor especially in a room at ground level or worse yet in the basement.
Fast curing it is indeed the rare freezer room cold storage or cold processing location that can be emptied and quickly warmed up to the temperatures.
The vapour barrier of a coldroom is most important in this type of construction.
We added a room to our house that has only a concrete slab for a floor.
How can we make the room comfortable.
If the temperature of the subfloor approaches freezing usually plus 4 degrees c is taken as the danger point then any water moisture in the subfloor will freeze.
Without regular preventive maintenance of freezer floors damages can lead to dangerous conditions for the traffic that goes into these areas.
Plain concrete slabs have served as the flooring material for basements garages patios and utility areas for many years but concrete is now also a viable material in home interiors where it can be polished etched or stained to serve as the finished flooring surface if you are used to thinking of concrete as a utilitarian surface suitable only for utilitarian surfaces the many virtues.
The slab gets so cold in winter we are unable to use the room.
Non staining and non absorbing other flooring types like tile could absorb stains or odors from the freezer room.
With freezer rooms using insulated concrete floor and drop in panel floor remove the inside metal from the base of the panel for 75 of the floor insulation height.
And the ground underneath your house will be warmer still because there s a relatively warmer house sitting on top of it.
Paying attention to setting out of square and perpendicular will save erection time.
Polyaspartic and urethane concrete coatings are quick curing even in chilly to very cold temperatures meaning no loss of work time or income while waiting for a floor to be ready.
Cold storage facilities that have clean rooms need to be seamless.
Freezer store concrete floors or wearing slabs must incorporate all the requirements of normal warehouse floors with a few extras for freezing.
Keep cold air out warm air in.
On a cold winter s morning the air temperature up close to the edge of the concrete floor can be colder than the ground underneath the house below the surface will be a bit warmer than this.
Concrete floor coatings however are seamless and resistant to damage.