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Moisture Mitigation for Healthcare Facility Concrete Floors

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Healthcare facilities play an essential role in maintaining the wellness of their patients, and a clean environment starts with a dry slab. Bone Dry’s penetrating concrete sealers stop moisture from surfacing through the concrete, so the mold, mildew and bacteria that feed on trapped moisture under flooring have nothing to grow on; Bone Dry Plus adds an antimicrobial inside the pores for hygiene-critical floors.

If a healthcare facility has a moisture problem in any of its concrete substrates, mold, fungus and mildew may grow beneath flooring materials, leading to breathing problems for those with lung issues. Bone Dry concrete moisture mitigation products fill the tiny pores and interstitial spaces where moisture can hide and eventually surface.

Sealing Healthcare Facility Floors from Within the Slab

Healthcare facilities like hospitals, nursing homes, labs and clinics are especially vulnerable to bodily fluid and chemical spills and to the buildup of moisture, bacteria and mold. Bone Dry Pro penetrates the slab, hardens and strengthens the concrete and seals the subsurface pores against moisture vapor, so adhesives and finished flooring stay bonded. It is VOC-free, spray-applied, and can go on at the pour, on a newly cured slab or on an older existing floor.

Looking for an antimicrobial concrete sealer? That is Bone Dry Plus: the same permanent moisture barrier as Bone Dry Original with an antimicrobial additive that inhibits mold, mildew and organic growth for the life of the product, made for hygiene-critical floors in hospitals and clinics.

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Hospital corridor with beds and seating on a resilient floor

Have a Large Concrete Sealing Project?

Bone Dry Pro is the solution for moisture mitigation on large concrete slabs. Depending on the porosity of the concrete surface, Bone Dry Pro covers approximately 300–360 square feet per gallon, and the Bone Dry Pro System carries a 25-year replacement warranty includes labor and material to replace the finished flooring system, adhesives, and prep material. Our in-house team of applicators can come out to your job site anywhere in America to seal your concrete. If you have a team of applicators, we can also send a representative to oversee the application. Give us a call to discuss your options.

Stop Penetration of Bodily Fluids into Concrete with Bone Dry Products

Healthcare facilities are specifically vulnerable to spills of bodily fluids on their floors. Don’t put your patients and employees at risk from bacteria, dust and pathogen buildup on your facility’s floors. Hospitals, medical offices, assisted living facilities, and senior living homes all require well-sealed concrete to prevent the absorption of urine, blood, and other fluids. Once absorbed, these fluids lead to bad odors and mold growth in concrete substrates. Bone Dry’s moisture mitigation products prevent the absorption of these fluids, with Bone Dry Plus where antimicrobial protection is also wanted.

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Working in an Occupied Healthcare Facility

Most healthcare flooring work happens while the building is open: a wing at a time, a clinic over a weekend, a patient tower going up next to an operating hospital. Bone Dry Pro fits that schedule.

VOC-free and water-based. Bone Dry Pro is VOC-free (its VOC compliance certificate is on the product page) and is applied as a low-pressure spray to bare concrete.
Applied at any stage. Bone Dry Pro goes on at the pour, on newly cured slabs or on older existing slabs, so a phased renovation is sealed area by area. Hard-troweled existing floors are opened first with Etch-A-Crete; see sealing a slab on grade before flooring.
Flooring in as little as 6 hours. Quick Dry is always included with Bone Dry Pro and there is no RH testing gate, so sheet vinyl, VCT, carpet or resinous flooring goes down on schedule.
Your crew or ours. Our in-house applicators travel nationwide, or your flooring contractor applies it with a Bone Dry representative on site. Adjacent finished surfaces are masked before spraying.
Antimicrobial where it matters. Where organic growth itself is the concern, Bone Dry Plus puts an antimicrobial in the pores of the slab.

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Healthcare Projects Sealed with Bone Dry

Published case studies from hospitals, clinics and care facilities where Bone Dry sealed the slab before the flooring went down:

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Quick Dry Turnaround

Flooring in as Little as 6 Hours

Quick Dry is always included with Bone Dry Pro, so flooring can go down as little as 6 hours after application, with no RH testing gate. For Bone Dry Plus, Quick Dry is an optional add-on: add it to the order and flooring can be installed 6 hours after application. Contractors like finishing under quoted completion times, and that turnaround is where Bone Dry saves the schedule.

Cost-Saving Alternative to Epoxy-Based Moisture Mitigation Solutions

Bone Dry Pro is a water-based, VOC-free concrete moisture mitigation product that can be applied at the pour, as soon as the slab can be walked on, unlike epoxy-based moisture mitigation systems, which are applied after the slab has cured and dried down. One low-pressure spray pass seals the capillaries, with no second mobilization.

Frequently Asked Questions

Can Bone Dry Pro be applied in an occupied healthcare building?

Bone Dry Pro is VOC-free and water-based, applied as a low-pressure spray to bare concrete, and it can be applied at the pour, on a newly cured slab or on an older existing slab, so work in an occupied building is done area by area as each space is ready for flooring. Adjacent finished surfaces are masked before spraying, and flooring can go down as little as 6 hours later.

Does Bone Dry stop mold under sheet vinyl and other adhered flooring?

Bone Dry Pro seals the subsurface pores of the slab so moisture vapor cannot reach the adhesive and the flooring above it, which removes the moisture that mold under adhered flooring depends on. Where organic growth itself is the concern, Bone Dry Plus adds an antimicrobial additive in the pores of the slab that keeps working for the life of the product.

How soon can flooring go down after the sealer?

Quick Dry is always included with Bone Dry Pro, so flooring can be installed 6 hours after application with no RH testing gate. With Bone Dry Plus, add Quick Dry to the order for the same 6-hour window.

What warranty covers the flooring over a Bone Dry-sealed slab?

The Bone Dry Pro System carries a 25-year replacement warranty includes labor and material to replace the finished flooring system, adhesives, and prep material, covering moisture-related and bonding failures. Concrete poured with Bone Dry Pro Admix carries a lifetime flooring and roofing system replacement warranty, with an on-site Bone Dry representative required for pours over 20 yards.