Resin flooring contractors Lancaster estates teams, laboratory managers and food producers rely on for seamless floors that survive disinfection. Supporting clinical, research and production facilities alongside industrial units on Caton Road, Lansil and the Lune estate.
Working for national manufacturers, logistics operators and public sector estates since 1999.
As resin flooring contractors Lancaster estates departments call on regularly, we answer questions about coving and chemical resistance far more often than about forklift loading. The city sits on the Lune, served by Junctions 33 and 34 of the M6, and its employment base leans towards education, clinical and research activity alongside food and drink production.
That gives it a specification profile built around seamlessness, disinfectant resistance and castor traffic. Laboratories need chemical resistance matched to actual reagents, and clinical corridors take continuous trolley and bed castors that score softer finishes into a cleaning problem.
A working industrial belt runs north of the city along Caton Road and the Lune corridor, and we serve it. But the technical centre of gravity here is institutional.
The main industrial corridor towards Junction 34, with manufacturing and trade units.
Established industrial and production premises off the Caton Road corridor.
Riverside industrial and storage units at New Quay Road near the city centre.
Large industrial and distribution stock shared with Morecambe to the west.
Laboratory, teaching, catering and estates buildings with specialist requirements.
Corridors, treatment and support areas with castor traffic and disinfectant use.
Chemical resistance with coved skirtings and no traps at benches or plinths.
Continuous castor traffic and frequent disinfection without scuffing or scoring.
Hygiene detailing with coving, falls and grip specified for grease and water.
Washdown resistance, drainage falls and tolerance of hot cleaning regimes.
Sugar solutions, acid and caustic cleaning, standing water and vessel loads.
Oil and chemical resistance with demarcated pedestrian routes throughout.
A clinical corridor never sees a pallet truck, and it still wears out. Bed and trolley castors track the same lines hundreds of times a day, and repeated disinfection works on the surface between them. A softer finish scores, and a scored floor stops being cleanable.
EN 1504-2 frames concrete protection, and exposure profiles differ sharply between one department and the next.
EN 13501-1 with the fl suffix applies where floor finishes sit on institutional corridors and stairwells.
Equality Act considerations cover contrast at thresholds, ramps and level changes in education and healthcare.
Institutional windows are narrow and fixed. Term dates, clinical schedules and production runs decide when an area can be released, so the sequence is agreed against those rather than proposed around our availability.
Where very fast return to service decides the job, rapid-cure polyaspartic and MMA systems are explained with their odour and ventilation implications stated honestly rather than glossed over. In an occupied teaching or clinical building that matters more than the cure figure.
Preparation runs under H-class extraction with areas screened, because most of these buildings stay in use around us and dust cannot travel into laboratory equipment or clinical space.
Coved skirtings, sealed junctions and no open joints, argued as infection control.
Concrete protection matched to the specific reagents and cleaning chemicals in use.
EN 13501-1 with the fl suffix where finishes sit on corridors and stairwells.
Equality Act considerations at thresholds, ramps and level transitions.
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 and EN 1504-2 for concrete protection. Polyaspartic and MMA sit outside that classification because they describe the resin chemistry rather than the build-up, and in Lancaster they are frequently chosen for the length of the window.
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. Laboratory and clinical finishes sit at the upper end, because the detailing and the chemical resistance are what is being paid for.
| 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.
Coved skirtings and sealed detail at benches, plinths and fume cupboard surrounds.
Routes, crossings and contrast at thresholds applied in resin rather than taped.
Damp proof membrane where a substrate fails moisture testing, as a standalone package.
Seamless coved systems matched to the reagents actually used in the department.
Castor-tolerant finishes installed room by room around continuing clinical use.
Falled, coved systems where hot cleaning and sugar solutions reach the floor.
We work across the district regularly, from Caton Road, Lansil and the Lune estate through to the White Lund fringe, the Bailrigg campus area and the clinical estate south of the city centre. We are Cheshire based, so a survey usually happens within days and there is no mobilisation charge for attending.
From the reagents actually in use. Exposure profiles differ sharply between departments, so a system suited to one laboratory may be wrong next door. We ask what is handled, at what concentration and how it is cleaned, and specify against that rather than making a general chemical resistance claim.
Castors and cleaning. Bed and trolley wheels track the same lines hundreds of times a day, and frequent disinfection works on the surface continuously. A softer finish scores, and once it is scored it stops being properly cleanable, which is the real failure rather than the appearance.
Yes, and it is how most work here is programmed. Institutional windows are narrow and fixed, so the sequence is built from your calendar backwards. Where fast return to service decides it, rapid-cure options are available and we set out the odour and ventilation implications plainly.
On protected routes it does. EN 13501-1 with the fl suffix is relevant where floor finishes sit on escape corridors and stairwells in institutional buildings, and we state the classification rather than describing a system loosely as fire rated.
From £8 per square metre for a floor seal up to £45 for MMA, inclusive of preparation, labour and materials. Laboratory, clinical and rapid-cure systems sit at the upper end. The full table by system is on the cost page.
Tell us what is handled in the area, how it is cleaned and when the calendar allows access. We attend, test the substrate, and put a written specification and a fixed price in front of you at no cost.
