Panels

1. Laminate: We use a laminate made with US craft papers. Standard Asian laminates often crack in US climates. We provide all the standard colors. Our laminate is 2MM thick which is thicker than all our competitors.
2. Trim-edges: We use routed trim edges. No vinyl C-trim edges to fall off. No dyed-edge trim-edges which chip off so easily when you kick the panels in, which everyone does.
3. Glue: We are the only ones in the world we know of to use epoxy glue. This glue literally welds the laminate to the top steel sheet and it should last the life of the panel. If your panel delaminates, it's junk - dumpster it. Our competitors use water-soluble or contact glues. Damp mopping causes delaminating very easily. You can damp mop Pati panels every day - no problem.
4. Steel: We use no zinc in our panels so there's no fear of "zinc whiskers." We use BaoSteel top-quality drawn steel. No scrap steel for us like many companies are using now.
5. Paint: We powder coat our panels with lead-free epoxy paint. It can't chip - you'd have to chisel it off. No chipping means no rust - ever.
6. Cement-fill: We use the highest quality 40% Portland cement fill. Each panel is hand-made and we guarantee no bubbles as each panel is hand-shaken and inspected. We recommend cement-filled panels always as they are the quietest to walk on, they're stronger, and they don't burn like particle board panels. They're also the easiest to cut. We use a foam cement - not concrete aggregate like one competitor does. You can cut cable cut-outs into the floor anytime yourself with just a hand-held jigsaw and steel-cutting blades. Concrete requires a diamond-tipped wet-saw or a core-drill so everytime you need to get through the floor you have to call a professional floor crew. This guarantees the addition of tens of thousands of dollars of maintenance costs during the life of the floor.
7. Grounding: All Pati panels come with a copper grounding strap on the side of the panel. This conducts any static electricity to the understructure, away from your sensitive computers.
8. Bottom pan: Nothing is stronger than the Roman arch. We covered the whole bottom of our panel with sixty-four 2½" little cups for maximum strength and welded each one to the top sheet above. We tested every panel available in the world today and this is by far the strongest design we could find.
9. Square corners: Instead of "collapsed corners" to save a few pennies in steel and cement we use full square corners.
10. CISCA testing: We are totally honest with our load-ratings. If you buy a 1250 lb. panel - which means you can run a caster with 1250 lbs. on it across the panel and it will hold - then that's what you will get. We find every competitors panels we rate around the world are over-rated. Most 1250 lb. panels are actually 750-1000 lb. panels. This is done to save money. Our 1250 lb. panels weigh 39.2 lbs. each. If your panels don't weigh that - somethings wrong. Our top sheet is 1.2mm and our bottom sheet is 1.0mm. Compare that too.
11. Pati makes three types of perforated panels - the AF-25, the AF-50, and the AF-70. The AF-25 offers 25% air flow and they are available for any type of floor system. The AF-50 offers 50% air flow for under blade servers and similar applications which need more cooling. They fit either hollow steel or cement-filled floor systems only. The AF-70 offers 70% airflow as they have turning vanes. They will fit any floor system ever made as they have levelers in the corners. All three types are all steel and they are 1250 psi rated. All are available in any color laminate or CVT. Gray Starlite and Beige Starlite laminate colors are always in stock. Dampers are optional on the AF-25 and AF-50 if you want to be able to regulate the airflow. They are not needed on the AF-70's as maximum airflow is what you are after.

Stringers:

1. We use a 4-sided closed box stringer. No 3-sided "C-channels" which can scissor open and collapse which also causes panels to dish. They come in 2' or 4' sizes. 2' are far more convenient as they are easier to remove when you are running pipes, conduit, fiber optics, cables, etc. since you only have to remove one row of panels and stringers instead of two or three rows with basketweave.
2. We glue a conductive foam rubber strip along the tops of our stringers. This makes Pati the quietest floor we know of to walk on. It also forms a seal between the panels which keeps dust and dirt from passing through the flooring in either direction.
3. Our panel edges ride along the tops of the stringers which adds double strength to our design as the panels are already resting directly on the pedestal heads.

Pedestals:

1. Heads: We use 3"x3" flat-heads, which are the strongest design there is. They are excellent for bracing too. They have nine ¼" threaded holes. We use a ¾" threaded rod which is welded four times to the top plate. We use a nut with a locking tab which guarantees that when you level it - it stays level. You can adjust any Pati pedestal up or down 1½". This is a plus as most cement slabs are that far out of level.
2. Bases: We use 7/8" O.D. tubes - the largest in the industry for strength. These are welded 4 times to 4"x4" base plates. Most pedestals are glued down so we have the largest stamped imprints in the base plates for capturing the most glue which makes for the best seal. We also have the largest holes available - four 3/8" holes in each base plate for seismic applications where you shoot the pedestal down with pins. We galvanize our heads and bases with the thickest layer possible.
3. Screws: We use 1/4x20x2" screws. These are the largest screws used in flooring today. You can unscrew these for many years and they will not wear out. They hold the most weight too.