Resin flooring contractors Denton engineering, plastics and manufacturing operators rely on for floors that hold up under machine bases. Supporting units across Tameside Business Park, Windmill Lane and the industrial cluster around Junction 1 of the M67.
Working for national manufacturers, logistics operators and public sector estates since 1999.
As resin flooring contractors Denton operators call on regularly, we survey floors that fail around plant rather than along routes. The town sits where the M67 meets the M60 at Denton Island, with the A57 Hyde Road running east into Tameside, and it carries far more manufacturing floorspace than its size suggests.
That floorspace is engineering-led: machining, pressing, tooling, plastics, rubber, packaging and vehicle-related work. Machine bases, press lines, tool stores, stillages and steel stock concentrate load onto small areas, and coolant, cutting oil and hydraulic fluid follow the same footprint.
So where a distribution shed wears in lanes, a Denton engineering floor cracks and indents in patches around the plant. It is a different problem needing a different build-up.
A heavy concentration of industrial and manufacturing units with strong M67 and M60 access.
Established light industrial and workshop accommodation typical of the engineering stock.
Industrial and trade units clustered around the interchange with high vehicle movement.
Trade, service and light industrial premises between Denton, Gorton and Hyde.
Former hatting and textile buildings now in light industrial and storage use.
Retail and leisure floorspace with goods-in, stockroom and service corridor demands.
Point loading beneath bases, coolant exposure, swarf abrasion and dropped tools.
Impact resistance and tolerance of repeated heavy stillage placement all day.
Thermal exposure at machine bases with chemical contact and granulate dust.
Forklift routes and racking loads where turning circles are genuinely constrained.
Fuel and oil resistance with measured grip and clear bay demarcation.
Variable substrates needing joint and crack treatment before any system goes on.
Machine feet, stillages and steel stock put their whole weight through a few square centimetres. A thin coating indents and cracks there regardless of how good its chemistry is, and the damage spreads outward from the point it started.
BS 8204-6 and FeRFA classification separate a coating from a screed, and concentrated loads need the screed.
Unsealed concrete soaks up cutting oil and metalworking fluid, and contaminated concrete cannot be decontaminated.
In converted stock, movement joints and historic cracks are detailed first rather than bridged optimistically.
Units here sit close together with shared yards and heavy vehicle movement onto the A57 and the motorway slip roads, so access and traffic management are part of the project rather than an afterthought.
Plant is bolted down and cannot be relocated, so work is taken bay by bay around fixed machines, with detailing formed up to bases and plinths rather than stopping short of them.
Where polyurethane systems are specified, and in these thermal and impact environments they usually are, ISOPA and ALIPA diisocyanate training records apply and every operative handling them holds current REACH certification.
ISOPA and ALIPA requirements for the polyurethane systems these environments need.
Coolant mist and metalworking fluid engage COSHH, and a sealed floor supports containment.
BS 8204-6 with FeRFA types, because a coating indents under stillages whatever its chemistry.
HSE L24 marked routes and crossings where units share yards beside the motorway slips.
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. In Denton the point loading decides the type before anything else does.
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. Machine and press areas sit at the upper end because they need genuine screed thickness rather than a coating.
| 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.
Treating movement joints, historic cracks and discontinuities before any finish is applied.
Forklift routes, crossings and bay marking applied in resin rather than painted on.
Damp proof membrane where a substrate fails moisture testing, as a standalone package.
Screed build-ups laid around fixed plant where stillages and bases concentrate load.
Thermally tolerant systems detailed to machine bases with cleanable granulate areas.
Historic substrates assessed, joints detailed and cracks treated before overlaying.
We work across the area regularly, from Tameside Business Park and Windmill Lane through to the units around Denton Island and Junction 1 of the M67, and along the A57 Hyde Road. We are Cheshire based, so a survey usually happens within days and there is no mobilisation charge for attending.
Because that is where the load concentrates. A machine foot or a loaded stillage puts its whole weight through a few square centimetres, and a thin coating indents and cracks under it however good the chemistry is. BS 8204-6 and the FeRFA range exist to make that judgement properly.
Not once it is in. Unsealed concrete absorbs cutting oil and metalworking fluid, and contaminated concrete cannot be decontaminated, only removed. That is why sealing matters as a COSHH control rather than as a finish, and why we grind out saturated areas before specifying.
The preparation, mostly. Converted stock carries movement joints, historic cracks and discontinuities that have to be identified and detailed before anything is laid. Bridging them optimistically with a finish just moves the crack to the surface a few months later.
Yes, and it is how most work here is done. Plant is bolted down and cannot be moved, so floors are taken bay by bay with detailing formed up to bases and plinths rather than stopping short of them.
From £8 per square metre for a floor seal up to £45 for MMA, inclusive of preparation, labour and materials. Screeds for machine and press areas sit at the upper end. The full table by system is on the cost page.
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Tell us what sits on the floor, what is spilled around it and which bays can be released. We attend, test the substrate, and put a written specification and a fixed price in front of you at no cost.
