Resin flooring contractors Southport hotels, kitchens and care premises rely on for floors that survive hot wash-down and disinfectants. Supporting hospitality, healthcare and light industrial facilities from Lord Street and Marine Drive to Southport Business Park at Kew and Crowland Street.
Working for national manufacturers, logistics operators and public sector estates since 1999.
As resin flooring contractors Southport operators call on regularly, we work to a brief that has almost nothing in common with the rest of Merseyside. There is no dock estate here and no heavy manufacturing cluster. The town is a Victorian resort reached by the A565 and the A570, and its floors are back-of-house and care-led.
Kitchens dominate. Hotel, restaurant, café and attraction kitchens run hot, wet and greasy, and they are the single largest source of demand in the town. The failure that follows is thermal: steam cleaning, hot water and hot oil discharged onto cold concrete crack and debond systems never specified for cyclic movement.
Alongside that sit clinical and care premises needing seamless coved finishes that take disinfectants and continuous castor traffic, and seafront entrances that stay wet and sandy for much of the year.
The principal modern business and light industrial park at Kew, east of the centre off the A570.
Established light industrial, workshop and trade units on the eastern side of the town.
A corridor of workshop, storage and service premises adjoining the Blowick industrial area.
The principal commercial boulevard, with hotel, restaurant and bar service areas behind it.
Visitor attraction kitchens, plant rooms and public service areas along the seafront corridor.
Mixed industrial, depot and trade premises close to the railway on the eastern edge of town.
Polyurethane screeds for thermal shock, grease resistance, falls and coved skirtings.
Wet, cool, chemically loaded areas needing seamless, cleanable, slip-resistant finishes.
Seamless coved systems resisting disinfectants and taking continuous castor traffic.
Heat, moisture, detergent exposure and constant trolley traffic across the whole floor.
Plant rooms, service corridors, waste stores and staff routes under seasonal footfall.
Abrasion resistance, dust sealing and clear line marking across the trade estates.
A busy kitchen puts boiling water, hot oil and steam cleaning onto concrete that is cold underneath, several times a day, every day. Very little else in the town asks that much of a floor, and epoxy coatings rarely survive it.
What breaks the bond is repeated movement between hot and cold, not a single maximum temperature figure on a datasheet.
Polyurethane screeds are formulated to absorb that cycling. BS 8204-6 and EN 13813 make the case for the build-up honestly.
Fats degrade the wrong system and make a floor lethal underfoot, so resistance and measured grip are specified together.
Southport works to a visitor calendar, so the programme is agreed around the season and the event weekends rather than around our diary. Out-of-season working is normal here, not a concession.
Kitchens are taken overnight or between services, with rapid-cure systems returning a floor to use in around two hours where a venue has to open the next day. Care and clinical areas are phased room by room so wards, treatment rooms and corridors stay usable throughout.
Preparation runs under H-class extraction with shared areas screened, because a hotel or care premises cannot have dust travelling into rooms, food areas or clinical space while the rest of the building stays open.
BS 8204-6 and EN 13813 underpin a polyurethane screed rather than a coating where steam cleaning occurs.
Seamless surfaces, coved skirtings, correct falls and drainage detail across every kitchen and cold room.
BS 7976 pendulum values where wind-driven rain and beach sand are tracked into public entrances.
Equality Act contrast at thresholds and EN 13501-1 fire classification throughout hospitality fit-out.
FeRFA classifies resin flooring into eight types by build-up and thickness, and BS 8204-6 governs which one a floor actually needs, with EN 13813 covering the screed material itself. Polyaspartic and MMA sit outside that classification because they describe the resin chemistry rather than the build-up. In Southport the polyurethane screeds lead, because thermal cycling decides the specification.
FeRFA Type 1. Two or more coats up to 150 microns, binding a dusting substrate and giving a cleanable surface. From £8 per square metre.
FeRFA Type 2. Dual component to 300 microns, solvent free, in gloss, matt or silk. Chemical resistance with a decorative finish.
FeRFA Type 3. Up to 1000 microns over prepared concrete and the system specified on most industrial jobs. Takes colour well for demarcation.
FeRFA Type 4. Multi-coat build at 1 to 3mm with aggregate broadcast between coats, for impact and constant wear.
FeRFA Type 5. Flow-applied at 2 to 3mm for a seamless finish where hygiene and cleaning matter more than impact resistance.
FeRFA Type 7. Three part filled system at 4 to 6mm thickness, giving a self-smoothing finish for heavy and very heavy duty areas.
FeRFA Types 7 and 8. Trowel-applied at 6 to 9mm to take thermal shock, steam cleaning and constant heavy forklift traffic.
Cures at temperatures down to −5°C and is ready in around two hours. Installed overnight or at a weekend it can remove the need to shutdown entirely.
Cures in hours, but the odour can taint food, fabrics and stock and the area must be cleared and ventilated. Better suited to new build and refurbishment projects.
Rates run from £8 per square metre for a floor seal to £45 for MMA, inclusive of preparation, labour and materials. Kitchen screeds sit at the upper end, and where a venue can only close overnight the faster system is often the cheaper project.
| System | FeRFA | Thickness | Per m² |
|---|---|---|---|
| Floor Seal | Type 1 | Up to 150µm | From £8 |
| Epoxy and PU Coating | Type 2 | 150 – 300µm | £8 – £12 |
| High Build Coating | Type 3 | 300 – 1000µm | £8 – £12 |
| Multi-Layer Flooring | Type 4 | 1 – 3mm | £12 – £16 |
| Self-Smoothing | Type 5 | 2 – 4mm | £20 – £30 |
| Heavy Duty Flowable | Type 7 | 4 – 6mm | £25 – £35 |
| Heavy Duty PU Screed | Type 8 | 6 – 9mm | £30 – £40 |
| Polyaspartic | Chemistry | 300 – 500µm | £38 |
| MMA | Chemistry | 2 – 6mm | £45 |
Inclusive of preparation, labour and materials. Rates assume a sound, accessible substrate and are indicative until the floor has been surveyed. Polyaspartic and MMA sit outside the FeRFA type classification because they describe the resin chemistry rather than the build-up.
A three day shutdown at a plant turning over £2,000 an hour is £120,000 of lost output. On most sites that is several times the price of the floor.
Five contractors quoted one timber processing plant. All five proposed the same system and a three to four day closure. None of them costed the closure.
We proposed a faster-curing system installed across a weekend. A higher rate per square metre, and no shutdown at all. On the client’s own figures the avoided losses exceeded the price of the floor.
We install evenings, weekends and one bay at a time.
Whether a shutdown costs you thousands an hour or simply gets in the way, you do not always have to close your site for a resin flooring installation.
Patch repair, crack filling and joint sealing on older kitchen and workshop concrete.
Walkways, delivery routes and zone separation applied in resin rather than in tape.
Damp proof membrane where a substrate fails moisture testing, as a standalone package.
Polyurethane screeds with coving and falls to drain, installed overnight between services.
Seamless disinfectant-resistant finishes phased room by room around continuing care.
Plant rooms, service corridors and waste stores completed inside the closed season.
We work across the town regularly, from the Lord Street and Marine Drive venues through to Southport Business Park at Kew, Blowick and the Crowland Street units. We are Cheshire based, so a survey usually happens within days and there is no mobilisation charge for attending.
Thermal shock. Boiling water, hot oil and steam cleaning hit concrete that is cold underneath, and the two move at different rates. What breaks the bond is the repeated cycling rather than the peak temperature, which is why a polyurethane screed is specified in a kitchen and an epoxy coating usually is not.
The detailing is what decides that. Seamless surfaces, coved skirtings at wall and plinth junctions, correct falls and proper drainage detail are what HACCP-driven requirements actually ask for, and they matter more than the product name on the quotation.
Yes, and it is how most work here is programmed. Out-of-season and closed-period working is normal rather than a concession, kitchens are taken overnight or between services, and rapid-cure systems return a floor to use in around two hours where a venue opens the next day.
Disinfectant resistance and castor tolerance. Seamless coved finishes have to survive repeated chemical cleaning and continuous trolley and bed movement without seams opening up, and areas are phased room by room so wards and treatment rooms stay usable throughout.
From £8 per square metre for a floor seal up to £45 for MMA, inclusive of preparation, labour and materials. Kitchen and clinical screeds sit at the upper end. The full table by system is on the cost page.
Tell us what the area is used for, how hot it gets cleaned and when it can be closed. We attend, test the substrate, and put a written specification and a fixed price in front of you at no cost.
