Altro Americas - Transport

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Altro Transport University - Installation guide Heat welding All seams of Altro flooring must be heat welded. Applying caulking or sealant in the seams instead is not an approved method. Do not heat weld the same day the floor covering is being installed.  The adhesive must set for 8 - 24 hours to allow the adhesive to complete the initial cure otherwise the wet adhesive will contaminate the weld causing failures at a later date. Contact type adhesive can be welded after 1 - 4 hours. Apply the tip to the heat gun. The heat gun will require a 15 minute warm up period. Preheat the heat gun by setting the temperature dial to 4 as a starting point and test heat setting on a scrap of material before proceeding. This may require fine adjustments once a test is performed. cont.

Altro Americas - Transport and Johnna McQuinn, after a lot of food digestion, will be at next week's Georgia Transit Association (GTA) Annual Conference and Expo. After all the food consumed these next few days get your steps in and waddle on over to the Altro display to learn about Altro's new lines of safety flooring  engineered to put you in control of performance delivering our renowned levels of safety with an array of new benefits – including weight optimization , acoustic insulation and thermal management – to suit the precise needs of your vehicles. Once you make the right choice and select Altro flooring you'll have access to our FREE virtual installation training service available exclusively to Altro customers.

Altro Transport University - Installation guide Seam cutting methods - Double cut Lay the flooring into place and overlap the seams about an inch. Lay a straight edge in desired seam location on top of the overlapped flooring and follow the straight edge using a concave blade. Ensure the knife blade is vertical and not leaning to the left or right. Score through the material until you have cut through both layers of floor. Remove the small cut piece from under the floor and butt the two seam edges together.  Fold the flooring back and apply adhesive. Roll the seam into the adhesive with a 2” seam roller. Do not compress fit the seams.

Altro Transport University - Installation guide Seam cutting methods - Trace cut Prior to spreading the adhesive, cut one side of the seam in desired location following the side of a straight edge using a concave blade. Lay the adjoining piece of flooring with the uncut seam edge into place allowing enough material to extend about 1/2“ under where the seam will lay. Lay the piece of flooring with the precut seam edge on top of the adjoining piece overlapping the first sheet at the seam edge. Trace the precut edge with a concave blade cutting through the bottom piece of floor covering. Remove the small cut piece from under the floor and place the two seam edges together. #safetyflooring #busfloors #floorinstallation Fold the flooring back and apply adhesive. Roll the seam into the adhesive with a 2” seam roller.  Do not compress fit the seams.

Altro Americas - Transport, Dan Lee and Dent Shuey will be at next week's California Transit Association Fall Conference and Expo. If you're attending you'll want to learn more about Altro's new lines of safety flooring  engineered to put you in control of performance delivering our renowned levels of safety with an array of new benefits – including weight optimization , acoustic insulation and thermal management – to suit the precise needs of your vehicles. While you're at the booth ask about our FREE Virtual Training service available exclusively to Altro customers! #safetyfloors #californiaTransit

Altro Americas - Transport and Geert Balfoort will be at next week's Canadian Urban Transit Association (CUTA) Annual Conference. Ask Geert about Altro's new Artis, Metris and Sonis lines of safety flooring engineered to put you in control of performance delivering our renowned levels of safety with an array of new benefits – including weight optimization , acoustic insulation and thermal management – to suit the precise needs of your vehicles. #safetyflooring #CUTA #Transitfloors

Altro Americas - Transport and Ken Becker will be at next week's Ohio Public Transit Association Ohio Needs Transportation Conference and Expo. Stop by and talk to Ken about Altro's new Artis, Metris and Sonis lines of safety flooring  engineered to put you in control of performance delivering our renowned levels of safety with an array of new benefits – including weight optimization , acoustic insulation and thermal management – to suit the precise needs of your vehicles. #safetyflooring #ohiopublictransit #busfloors #ohioneedstransport

Altro Transport University - Installation guide Seam cutting methods - Precut Seams are to be trimmed net (not tight). Do not leave a gap greater than 1/32” wide. Seams should be cut using any of the following methods: Precut (preferred method) Trace cut Double cut Precut (straight edge + fit) Precut the seam edge on both pieces of flooring with a concave blade following the side of a straight edge. Place seam edges together when laying the flooring into the adhesive. Roll the seam into the adhesive with a 2” seam roller. Do not compress fit the seams. #safetyflooring #floorinstallation

Altro Americas University - Installation guide Coving In most cases coving the floor covering between horizontal and vertical surfaces with one seamless piece of flooring is preferred. Altro Transflor products are flexible, allowing it to be coved up the side of the vehicle to the required height.  A solid cove former must be used under the flooring where the floor and walls meet to add structure and support to the flooring when coved up the wall. The cove former also provides the ideal radius to make cleaning easier.  Altro cove former is available in a range of sizes to fit most requirements. Cut the cove former to size and adhere with contact adhesive. Apply adhesive to the floor and wall substrates as well as to the back of the cove former. When installing the main flat floor section of the vehicle, do not apply the adhesive to the cove former or the wall section, this will be done in a second stage after the main floor is installed.  Once the main floor section is installed and rolled with a 100 lb. roller, fold the flooring that extends up the wall down onto the floor exposing the wall and cove former. Apply contact adhesive to subfloor, cove former, wall and back of floor covering. Allow sufficient open time as recommended on the adhesive label. Roll the Altro floor tightly onto the cove former using a three section hand roller keeping the flooring material from making contact with the wall.  Ensure the flooring is seated tightly into the cove former first without any air gaps, then roll the flooring up the wall. Trim as necessary. All exposed edges of flooring must be sealed with AltroMastic 100 or equivalent. Mechanical fastening is also recommended at the top edge of the coving. #safetyflooring #floorinstallation