FloorSciences Inspections & Concrete Testing

FloorSciences™ provides a comprehensive range of analytical testing, inspections, and consulting services relating to the evaluation of floor coverings, floor coatings, and concrete slabs.

FloorSciences™ partners with our clients to prevent, and find solutions to, flooring system issues and problems. We pride ourselves with maintaining a reputation for a high level of professionalism and objectivity, providing reliable, unbiased data and evaluations. We are one of the leading concrete slab moisture testing company in the U.S.

𝑃𝑟𝑜𝑓𝑒𝑠𝑠𝑖𝑜𝑛𝑎𝑙 𝑠𝑒𝑟𝑣𝑖𝑐𝑒𝑠 𝑖𝑛𝑐𝑙𝑢𝑑𝑒:

• Ambient relative humidity (RH) & temperature remote monitoring
• Concrete coating testing & analysis
• Concrete core extractions & testing
• Concrete slab evaluations & consulting
• Concrete slab moisture & pH testing
• Concrete slab moisture mitigation system testing & analysis
• Construction materials testing (CMT) of flooring system components
• Construction safety compliance
• Educational seminars: "Preventing Floor Failures" & others
• Expert witness & litigation support
• Flooring inspections and analysis
• Forensic floor failure investigations and analysis
• Ground penetrating radar (GPR) concrete subsurface scanning (2D+3D)
• Performance evaluations
• Punch list inspections
• QA/QC testing & inspection services
• Sub-floor evaluations

𝑄𝑢𝑎𝑙𝑖𝑡𝑦 𝐴𝑠𝑠𝑢𝑟𝑎𝑛𝑐𝑒 & 𝑄𝑢𝑎𝑙𝑖𝑡𝑦 𝐶𝑜𝑛𝑡𝑟𝑜𝑙 (𝑄𝐴/𝑄𝐶)

The success of a flooring system (floor coverings, floor coatings, underlayments, coatings, moisture mitigation systems, adhesives etc.) installation relies on adherence to manufacturers' guidelines, relevant industry standards, and architectural and other construction documents. FloorSciences can conduct quality assurance and quality control (QA/QC) construction material testing (CMT) and observations of the flooring system components based on the relevant industry standards and project documents.

𝐶𝑜𝑛𝑐𝑟𝑒𝑡𝑒 𝑆𝑢𝑏-𝑠𝑢𝑟𝑓𝑎𝑐𝑒 𝑆𝑐𝑎𝑛𝑛𝑖𝑛𝑔

FloorSciences™ is one of a very few flooring consultancy firms in the nation with in-house capability to conduct ground penetrating radar (GPR) 2D+3D concrete subsurface scanning to locate post-tensioning (PT) cables, reinforcement, conduit, and other concrete embeddings, along with other concrete subsurface assessments. This advanced technology allows us to drill into concrete slabs with these types of embeddings, to perform internal concrete relative humidity (RH) moisture testing (ASTM F2170), and take concrete core samples.

Don't allow a flooring inspection and testing firm to risk damaging concrete embeddings because they do not have the proper advanced instrumentation to locate what's in or directly under your concrete slab prior to drilling or coring into or through your concrete slab.

𝐶𝑜𝑛𝑐𝑟𝑒𝑡𝑒 𝐼𝑛𝑡𝑒𝑟𝑛𝑎𝑙 𝑅𝑒𝑙𝑎𝑡𝑖𝑣𝑒 𝐻𝑢𝑚𝑖𝑑𝑖𝑡𝑦 (𝑅𝐻) 𝑀𝑜𝑖𝑠𝑡𝑢𝑟𝑒 𝑇𝑒𝑠𝑡𝑖𝑛𝑔 (𝐴𝑆𝑇𝑀 𝐹2170)

Being an industry leader at the forefront of utilizing advanced technologies is not new for FloorSciences. Shortly after the ASTM F2170 test method for determining internal relative humidity of the air void space in concrete slabs using in situ probes became a new standard in the U.S., we recognized it's efficacy and was an early adopter in 2003.

At that time, very few companies had the high-tech instrumentation to conduct concrete moisture testing using this method, and it was primarily only European flooring manufacturers that included it in their U.S. specifications. Now almost all flooring and coatings manufacturers recognize this test method in their specifications.

𝐷𝑟𝑦 𝐹𝑖𝑙𝑚 𝑇ℎ𝑖𝑐𝑘𝑛𝑒𝑠𝑠 (𝐷𝐹𝑇) 𝑜𝑓 𝐶𝑜𝑛𝑐𝑟𝑒𝑡𝑒 𝐶𝑜𝑎𝑡𝑖𝑛𝑔𝑠 𝑇𝑒𝑠𝑡𝑖𝑛𝑔 (𝐴𝑆𝑇𝑀 𝐷6132)

The thickness of a high performance or protective coating can be crucial in the properties needed to fulfill t