Southeast Sealing, Inc. Blog

In industrial and commercial facilities, the floor scrubber clean-out station is one of the most heavily used — and often most overlooked — areas. Constant exposure to water, detergents, grease, and grime can lead to rapid wear and tear on untreated concrete, creating safety hazards and increasing maintenance demands. One of the most effective solutions? Applying an epoxy floor system. Here are a few key benefits: 1. Chemical and Moisture Resistance Epoxy coatings create a non-porous, seamless surface that resists chemical spills, cleaning agents, and water exposure. This helps protect your underlying concrete from erosion and contamination — especially critical in areas with frequent equipment wash-downs. 2. Improved Safety Epoxy can be formulated with anti-slip additives to reduce the risk of slips and falls, even in wet environments. This is crucial at clean-out stations, where standing water and soap residue are common. 3. Durability and Longevity Industrial-grade epoxy is designed to handle heavy traffic and abrasions from equipment like scrubbers and carts. Once applied, it significantly extends the lifespan of your flooring, reducing the need for costly repairs. 4. Ease of Cleaning A smooth epoxy surface prevents dirt, grease, and grime from soaking in, making cleanup faster and more effective. This ensures your clean-out station stays sanitary and operational with minimal effort. 5. Professional Appearance A clean, well-coated floor projects a sense of professionalism and care. Custom colors or markings can even be integrated into the epoxy to delineate safe zones, equipment paths, or waste areas. Final Thoughts Applying an epoxy floor system to your floor scrubber clean-out station is more than just an aesthetic upgrade — it’s a smart, long-term investment in safety, performance, and maintenance efficiency. Whether you’re dealing with daily clean-outs or occasional deep scrubs, epoxy helps keep your operation running smoother and safer. Need help choosing the right epoxy floor system for your warehouse or manufacturing facility? Reach out to Southeast Sealing, Inc. today at 770-483-6000.

In high-traffic warehouses, safety isn’t just a priority—it’s a necessity. At Southeast Sealing, Inc., we help businesses take a proactive approach to workplace safety by professionally cleaning and maintaining their warehouse floors. Dirty, dust-covered, oil-slick floors don’t just look bad- they’re a major hazard. Slips, trips, and falls are among the most common workplace injuries, often caused by buildup of grime or unnoticed spills. Our deep-cleaning services remove dirt, grease, and debris that typical in-house cleaning often misses, making your surfaces safer for both foot and forklift traffic. Clean floors also: - Improve visibility of floor markings (for traffic lanes, hazard zones, and emergency exits) - Reduce dust that can interfere with sensitive equipment or air quality - Extend the life of your floor coatings – helping you save on costly repairs or recoating Whether your facility handles food, freight, or manufacturing materials, keeping your floors professionally cleaned can drastically reduce safety risks and improve compliance with OSHA standards. At Southeast Sealing, Inc. we don’t just clean- we help you protect your people. Ready to make your warehouse safer? Call Southeast Sealing, Inc. today for a free quote: 770-483-6000

Above are photos of our 1980s fleet of Tennant 527 and 528 floor scrubbing machines. Although long since retired and replaced, these concrete floor cleaning machines served our clients in warehouse and manufacturing facilities in the Fulton Industrial District, Marietta, Kennesaw, Decatur, Norcross, Gwinnett County, as well as throughout the Southeast.

Thursday, December 12, Southeast Sealing attended the 20th Annual Prologis Holiday Event. Prologis provides logistics real estate solutions to the world and are leaders in the industrial real estate manufacturing industry. Southeast Sealing has been providing services including warehouse floor cleaning, coating, sealing, and joint repair to name a few for Prologis for decades. We are very proud to be one of their go-to flooring contractors. Each year at their Holiday Event, Prologis makes an effort to provide fundraising for a charitable organization. This year, they contributed to Easter Seals North Georgia. This organization was founded to provide therapy to children rehabilitating from polio. Since then, the organization has expanded its services to meet the needs of children with disabilities and other special needs living in North Georgia. Prologis collected donations, gift cards, toys, and other needed items for the children of Easter Seals. The annual Holiday Event is always a great way to catch up with fellow contractors and vendors and also to meet new people. This year, Southeast Sealing even won some beautiful boxes full of treats during a raffle!

It came as no surprise that Southeast Sealing, Inc. was once again honored by Associated Builders and Contractors (ABC) of Georgia with a Platinum Level Safety Training and Evaluation Process (STEP) award as well as the Georgia Safety Award of Excellence. Southeast Sealing, Inc. continues to achieve these levels of safety excellence awards year after year, and we are so grateful for our team and our crew’s continued efforts. The STEP award recognizes member companies that employ effective safety practices on their job sites. Southeast Sealing, Inc. has won this award every year for over 25 years. STEP companies are up to 770 percent safer than non-STEP companies with total recordable incident rates as much as 87 percent lower. Georgia Safety Awards of Excellence are awarded to companies who have had no employee fatalities, with lost time and DART rates half the national average or less. Southeast Sealing, Inc. takes pride in our continued efforts toward maintaining the safest operations.

Back in the day, Southeast Sealing Inc. would take the crew to Mexico Beach, FL for a fishing trip to thank them for a year of jobs well done. They would board a fishing boat named Charisma and spend the day at sea. The fish they caught were taken to a local restaurant, prepared, and served to the crew for dinner.
Southeast Sealing, Inc. recently completed a project just south of Metro Atlanta in the McDonough, GA area. Our customer wanted a battery charging area in their warehouse, where they could charge large batteries without worrying about acid spills on the floor. Check out the step by step process below:

Wet Concrete Floors In metro Atlanta, as well as throughout Georgia and most of the Southeast, many warehouses and industrial properties struggle with wet concrete floors. This is frequently referred to as “sweating slab syndrome”. Wet warehouse floors and industrial floors create serious hazards for people, machinery, and investors. Wet concrete floors can lead to serious and costly slip and fall accidents. Slip and falls are the number one cause of workers compensation claims. Furthermore, they are the main cause of injury resulting in lost days from work. Forklifts, handling equipment, racking, and inventory can become damaged. We have worked on sites where wet, slippery floors have resulted in a loss of traction and the two forks of a lift truck actually penetrated an office wall. Fortunately, the occupant was not injured. In another instance, a lift truck was not able to stop and crashed into a demising wall. It shifted the wall and resulted in extensive damage to inventory in the adjacent unit. One of our clients even had a lift truck that slid out a dock door and crashed onto its side in the parking lot.
Southeast Sealing, Inc. has been a certified Ashford Formula installer for over 35 years. We have installed Ashford Formula flooring all over the United States. Ashford Formula is a chemically reactive liquid that penetrates the concrete, solidifying the concrete surface components into a solid mass. It produces a permanently denser, harder, penetration and abrasion resistant concrete surface. Ashford Formula is inorganic, nontoxic, VOC free, colorless and odorless. · Ashford Formula densifies concrete surfaces into a solid mass by penetrating the concrete and chemically filling the pores from within. · Ashford Formula chemically hardens the concrete surface, increasing the abrasion resistance by 32%. · Ashford Formula reacts immediately, chemically stabilizing the finished concrete surface. It also accelerates and enhances hydration of the portland cement, helping the concrete reach its design properties. · Application of the Ashford Formula is a one-time, permanent application. This eliminates the need for expensive re-application materials, labor costs and facility downtime. Routine surface cleaning is all that is required for long-term maintenance. · Ashford Formula combines with calcium hydroxide, becoming an integral part of the concrete, thus completely dust-proofing the surface. This reduces maintenance costs and protects inventory and equipment from concrete dust. · Over time, Ashford Formula treated floors will develop a permanent and attractive sheen. Rather than eroding with traffic, the floor surface actually begins to self polish. Note: Open or porous surfaces, or floors with poor surface integrity may not achieve these results.

In industrial and commercial facilities, the floor scrubber clean-out station is one of the most heavily used — and often most overlooked — areas. Constant exposure to water, detergents, grease, and grime can lead to rapid wear and tear on untreated concrete, creating safety hazards and increasing maintenance demands. One of the most effective solutions? Applying an epoxy floor system. Here are a few key benefits: 1. Chemical and Moisture Resistance Epoxy coatings create a non-porous, seamless surface that resists chemical spills, cleaning agents, and water exposure. This helps protect your underlying concrete from erosion and contamination — especially critical in areas with frequent equipment wash-downs. 2. Improved Safety Epoxy can be formulated with anti-slip additives to reduce the risk of slips and falls, even in wet environments. This is crucial at clean-out stations, where standing water and soap residue are common. 3. Durability and Longevity Industrial-grade epoxy is designed to handle heavy traffic and abrasions from equipment like scrubbers and carts. Once applied, it significantly extends the lifespan of your flooring, reducing the need for costly repairs. 4. Ease of Cleaning A smooth epoxy surface prevents dirt, grease, and grime from soaking in, making cleanup faster and more effective. This ensures your clean-out station stays sanitary and operational with minimal effort. 5. Professional Appearance A clean, well-coated floor projects a sense of professionalism and care. Custom colors or markings can even be integrated into the epoxy to delineate safe zones, equipment paths, or waste areas. Final Thoughts Applying an epoxy floor system to your floor scrubber clean-out station is more than just an aesthetic upgrade — it’s a smart, long-term investment in safety, performance, and maintenance efficiency. Whether you’re dealing with daily clean-outs or occasional deep scrubs, epoxy helps keep your operation running smoother and safer. Need help choosing the right epoxy floor system for your warehouse or manufacturing facility? Reach out to Southeast Sealing, Inc. today at 770-483-6000.

In high-traffic warehouses, safety isn’t just a priority—it’s a necessity. At Southeast Sealing, Inc., we help businesses take a proactive approach to workplace safety by professionally cleaning and maintaining their warehouse floors. Dirty, dust-covered, oil-slick floors don’t just look bad- they’re a major hazard. Slips, trips, and falls are among the most common workplace injuries, often caused by buildup of grime or unnoticed spills. Our deep-cleaning services remove dirt, grease, and debris that typical in-house cleaning often misses, making your surfaces safer for both foot and forklift traffic. Clean floors also: - Improve visibility of floor markings (for traffic lanes, hazard zones, and emergency exits) - Reduce dust that can interfere with sensitive equipment or air quality - Extend the life of your floor coatings – helping you save on costly repairs or recoating Whether your facility handles food, freight, or manufacturing materials, keeping your floors professionally cleaned can drastically reduce safety risks and improve compliance with OSHA standards. At Southeast Sealing, Inc. we don’t just clean- we help you protect your people. Ready to make your warehouse safer? Call Southeast Sealing, Inc. today for a free quote: 770-483-6000

Above are photos of our 1980s fleet of Tennant 527 and 528 floor scrubbing machines. Although long since retired and replaced, these concrete floor cleaning machines served our clients in warehouse and manufacturing facilities in the Fulton Industrial District, Marietta, Kennesaw, Decatur, Norcross, Gwinnett County, as well as throughout the Southeast.