Resin flooring contractors Manchester logistics, food production and back-of-house operators rely on when there is no shutdown available. Supporting facilities across Trafford Park, the Airport City and Global Logistics area, Sharston, Roundthorn and the east Manchester corridors.
Working for national manufacturers, logistics operators and public sector estates since 1999.
As resin flooring contractors Manchester operators call on regularly, we rarely get a building to ourselves. The city is ringed by the M60 and fed by the M56, M602 and A57(M), and national-scale distribution, food production, airport-side handling, hospital and laboratory estate and a very large hospitality back-of-house layer all sit inside the same core.
The surrounding towns each have one story. Bolton and Wigan are distribution-led, Oldham and Rochdale refurbishment-led. Manchester is all of them at once, with a public-facing layer none of them carry at the same intensity.
The second difference is time. Trading hours, flight schedules and continuous picking mean floors go in overnight, in phases or across a bank holiday, and that pushes the specification as hard as the duty does.
One of the best-known industrial estates in the UK, dense with warehousing and manufacturing.
Large-scale logistics and manufacturing space with high floor loads and tight turnarounds.
An established multi-unit industrial and commercial area in the south, close to the M56.
Light manufacturing, storage and trade units serving the southern side of the city.
Older industrial and trade stock through Openshaw, Clayton and Newton Heath.
Kitchens, cellars, prep rooms and service corridors across Piccadilly and Ancoats.
Forklift lanes, turning circles and dock aprons where joint breakdown appears first.
Washdown, thermal shock from steam cleaning, drainage falls and coved detailing.
Continuous cage and tug traffic with very tight return-to-service windows.
Grease, hot liquids and constant wet cleaning where slip outranks appearance.
Goods-in and service corridors installed overnight and trading the next morning.
Seamless, disinfectant-resistant surfaces with coving and particle control.
A city-centre kitchen, an airport-side handling building and a live picking operation all price closure by the hour. That makes phasing and return to service part of the specification rather than a scheduling detail settled afterwards.
Rapid-cure options are framed against trading hours and shift patterns, with cure behaviour stated plainly.
Forklift, cage, trolley and castor traffic run over the same floor here, and the build-up answers all four.
Modern power-floated concrete sits alongside Victorian and mid-century floors in city-fringe conversions.
Manchester facilities rarely have a two-week shutdown available, so we plan from the trading pattern backwards. Retail and hospitality go overnight, distribution aisle by aisle, and airport-side work into whatever window the schedule allows.
Where cure speed governs, systems are explained through how they behave rather than as a promised completion time, because a slipped handback in a building costed by the hour is expensive in a way the floor never is.
Preparation runs under H-class extraction with areas screened, because most of these buildings have people in them while we work, and older east Manchester concrete dusts heavily under grinding.
The EH40 limit of 0.1 mg per cubic metre over eight hours makes sealing worn concrete a control.
BS 7976 pendulum values at entrances, kitchens and goods-in where rain is tracked in daily.
Segregated routes, crossings and exclusion zones where pedestrians and vehicles overlap.
Equality Act contrast at level changes and thresholds in retail, leisure and healthcare.
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 for the screed. Polyaspartic and MMA sit outside that classification because they describe the resin chemistry rather than the build-up, and in Manchester they are frequently chosen for the window rather than the duty.
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. Where closure is costed by the hour, the faster system is often the cheaper project by a wide margin.
| 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.
Arris rebuilding and flexible sealing across dock aprons, lanes and goods-in thresholds.
Routes, crossings and exclusion zones applied in resin rather than taped or painted on.
Damp proof membrane where a substrate fails moisture testing, as a standalone package.
Abrasion resistant floors and joint repairs phased around continuous picking operations.
Polyurethane systems with coving and falls, installed overnight between services.
Seamless coved finishes handed back cleanable, room by room around continuing use.
We work across the city regularly, from Trafford Park and the Airport City area through to Sharston, Roundthorn at Wythenshawe, the east Manchester corridors at Openshaw and Newton Heath, and city-centre back-of-house. We are Cheshire based rather than Manchester based, so a survey usually happens within days and there is no mobilisation charge for attending.
Frequently, yes, and it is the normal condition here rather than an exception. Rapid-cure systems return a floor to use in a few hours, and the programme is built from your trading pattern backwards. We state cure behaviour rather than promising a completion time, because a slipped handback costs far more than the floor.
A build-up that answers all of them rather than the heaviest one. Overlapping traffic is normal in this city, and the failure modes differ: forklifts attack joints, cages wear narrow lines, castors cut into fixed routes. We specify by zone so each area gets what it actually needs.
The preparation, mostly. That stock dusts heavily and often carries previous coatings and contamination, so what comes off decides what goes on. It also brings the EH40 silica limit into play for our works as well as for your staff, so extraction and screening are standard.
It should mean a pendulum value tested to BS 7976 in the wet condition. In a city where rain is tracked through every entrance and kitchens are wet most of the day, an untested claim tells you nothing and cannot be compared between quotations.
From £8 per square metre for a floor seal up to £45 for MMA, inclusive of preparation, labour and materials. Where the window is a single night the faster system often works out cheaper overall. The full table by system is on the cost page, with a calculator that adds the cost of closure.
Tell us what crosses the floor, what it costs you to close and how long the window is. We attend, test the substrate, and put a written specification and a fixed price in front of you at no cost.
