Vortex is proud to announce an expansion of their new facility in Wisconsin. If you have been watching what the economy has been doing to other liner companies, you know that they have been falling by the way side. All they can do is trucks, they simply aren’t versatile enough to do much more than that.

Vortex has expanded to a larger State of the Art facility in Wisconsin to meet the increase in demands for products needed by our Dealers. Vortex is the only 100% portable system on the market today. No ifs ands or buts about it.

Along with our Granitex system, Vortex can give you the greatest diversity of application in your coatings business. Whether it’s a truck, floor, roof, deck, restaurant floor, trailer, or anything else, only Vortex & Granitex can take care of every coating need.

Think about it:

• 100% portable
• 98% material transfer efficiency
• 5 times stronger than the competition
• 100’s of colors
• up to 50% less material costs

Start your own business, or add to your existing business. Vortex & Granitex are great way to be your own boss.

PLUS… call now to see how you can generate a greater return on your investment with free material

The water in most basements is actually traveling through the concrete by passing thought the pores that make up 12% to 18% of your concrete’s volume. After concrete is poured, in order for it to dry, the water on the inside must work it’s way out. As it does this, it leaves behind a network of invisible capillaries that wind throughout the cement. Even after all of the original water from the concrete is gone, these pores remain in place and continue to move water through the process of diffusion.

Initially, most water that is passing through the pores is in the form of water vapor. Water vapor passes though pores much more readily than liquid water because it is not held back by cohesion (the attraction of a molecule to the same type of molecule). Liquid water tends to stick to itself and stay in globs. Over time, the concrete becomes more saturated with water molecules from the vapor continuously passing through the pores. The water saturating the concrete will begin to pull water from the outside via capillary action.

Just like rain water eroding a hill or a small river digging out the grand canyon, the water starts to make all of the pores in the concrete bigger. Since molecules will want to travel to areas of lower concentration by diffusion, installing a dehumidifier in a basement increases the rate that water passing though the pores and thus increasing the rate that the water will increase the size of the pores by dissolving and displacing lime and other minerals. Now you not only have more water than before, but you also have a bigger path for radon gas to enter your home.

What can be done to keep this from happening? The key is filling the pores to prevent water from traveling through the concrete. Super Sealer™ as mentioned in an earlier article, can penetrate the concrete’s surface, expands to fill capillaries, and hardens to prevent water passage. The best way to fix a problem is to stop it at the source. Save yourself the headaches over expensive drainage systems or radon mitigation systems by do getting to the root of the problem.

Some tires stain paints, coatings and floor tiles made from petroleum based products including: Epoxies, PVC, Urethanes, Acrylics, and others. The stain is caused by a material called 6PPD which is in some natural and synthetic rubber products to resist degradation by ozone and UV light. As well as a parent compound in vulcanization accelerators and in antioxidants for rubber industry. 6PPD helps improve a product’s chemical, heat, and electrical resistance by preventing oxidation of a product by becoming oxidized itself.

6PPD in tires will stain all tiles made from Flexible PVC regardless of the color or manufacturer. Since 6PPD is designed for use in so many rubbers, plastics and other polymers, once it has stained a surface made from one of these compatible compounds, it is going to become a permanent part of your floor. Short of removing or covering the coating or tile, there is not much you can do.

The best thing you can do for your floor if it’s going to be in contact with tires, is find something that won’t stain. Granitex III Glaze has been developed to resist staining from tires to keep garage floors looking like new.

How do I know that a Granitex coating will not chip, flake, or peel like other floor coatings? We showed you in an earlier article how our patented Super Sealer will be absorbed by the pores in the concrete to create a mechanical bond to the cement that won’t peel up like products that try to use a surface bond to adhere to concrete.

We applied a Granitex coating to a non-stick surface to test the Flexibility of Granitex without any surface to bond to. As you can see in the pictures below, Granitex coatings are incredibly flexible and won’t chip or flake like brittle epoxies or paints.

As you can see, the material can be flexed and shaped into many forms without showing any signs of cracking or weakening. Granitex is strong yet flexible.

When you start looking for truck accessories, the first thing you need to address is how you use your truck. Are you going to need more performance or heavier suspension for hauling heavy loads, or a lift and perhaps larger tires for taking your truck off road? One thing is universal to almost every truck, unless the only use your truck gets is when you let it out of your heated garage and take it to a car show, the truck bed is going to see some abuse. Your truck needs a bed liner. As mentioned in one of our previous articles, drop in bedliners make take abuse, but they are also one of the worst abusers. A spray on bed liner not only protects your truck from everything you haul. But also prevents moisture from ever coming in contact with the bed of your truck, giving your truck longer life and unsurpassed durability. Protect your investment with the best in truck bed accessories