Resin flooring contractors Ellesmere Port process, manufacturing and port-adjacent operators rely on for chemically resistant floors and containment detailing. Serving facilities across Hooton Park, Rossmore, Thornton and the Stanlow and Ince corridor, together with logistics premises around the Manchester Ship Canal.
Working for national manufacturers, logistics operators and public sector estates since 1999.
As resin flooring contractors Ellesmere Port operators call on regularly, we see a duty profile that exists almost nowhere else in Cheshire. Few towns in the region carry as much heavy process industry per square mile, sitting where the Manchester Ship Canal meets the Mersey estuary with the M53 running through it at Junctions 7 to 10.
The defining characteristic is exposure. Transfer areas, tank farms, bunded compounds, pump houses and drum stores put floors in contact with hydrocarbons, acids, alkalis, solvents and process residues, often in semi-covered conditions where UV, thermal cycling and rainwater add to the duty.
So the headline failure is chemical attack and surface erosion at transfer points, decanting stations and bund floors. It is not the abrasion-led wear you see in a pure logistics town, and specifying as though it were is how these floors fail early.
The county’s most concentrated refining and processing area, with bunded compounds, transfer bays and strict permitting.
An established industrial and employment area with manufacturing, storage and technical units, positioned for the M53.
Mixed industrial, trade and warehousing units carrying regular heavy vehicle movement throughout the working day.
Port-adjacent storage, handling and processing premises along the dock estate, including bulk storage facilities.
Technical, laboratory and research-adjacent facilities needing controlled, cleanable and chemically resistant finishes.
Distribution and trade premises serving the Wirral, west Cheshire and North East Wales from the motorway corridor.
Resistant multi-layer or screed systems with falls to controlled drainage wherever product is moved.
Coatings compatible with the stored substance and detailed to maintain containment at every upstand.
Hydrocarbon-resistant, non-absorbent surfaces with spill detailing at decanting stations and racks.
Durable finishes able to take localised spillage in service tunnels and around working pump sets.
Abrasion resistance and load tolerance for high-density racking on the canal and the dock estate.
Seamless, disinfectant and reagent resistant finishes for controlled and research-adjacent areas.
Transfer areas, tank farms, bunded compounds and drum stores put floors in contact with hydrocarbons, acids, alkalis and process residues, frequently in semi-covered conditions. Chemical attack and surface erosion follow, concentrated at the points where product is moved.
Oil storage and permitting rules require secondary containment at 110% of capacity, so joint, upstand and penetration detailing belongs in the specification.
Where the resin protects structural concrete from chemical ingress rather than simply providing a wearing surface, EN 1504-2 is the correct reference.
Systems are selected against documented concentration, temperature and contact duration, because chemical resistance is a property of the build-up.
Most of our work here happens on operating sites, which changes how it is planned rather than what is installed. Permit-to-work integration, COSHH assessment and controlled access are agreed before mobilisation, not negotiated on arrival.
Where PU systems are specified, ISOPA and ALIPA diisocyanate training records matter directly, and every operative handling those products holds current REACH certification.
Work is then sequenced into shutdown windows or taken area by area, with rapid-cure systems used where the window is genuinely tight. On a live process site the constraint is rarely the floor. It is the permit, the isolation and the handback.
Bunded areas, transfer bays and drainage detailing sit under permitting conditions rather than good practice alone.
The reference where resin is protecting structural concrete from chemical ingress, not only providing a surface.
Live process environments make COSHH assessment and permit integration central to how the work is planned.
Pendulum values to BS 7976 in the wet condition at tanker loading points and across open transfer bays.
FeRFA classifies resin flooring into eight types by build-up and thickness. Polyaspartic and MMA sit outside that classification because they describe the resin chemistry rather than the build-up. In Ellesmere Port the choice is usually driven by what the floor is exposed to: epoxy for broad chemical performance, polyurethane where thermal cycling is added, and MMA where cure speed governs a shutdown 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. Containment and bund detailing is priced separately because it is engineering rather than area.
| 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.
Crack stitching, arris rebuilding and flexible joint sealing on the older Rossmore and Hooton units.
Traffic routes, walkways and exclusion zones around tanker movements, applied in resin rather than tape.
Surface damp proof membrane where a substrate fails moisture testing, supplied as a standalone package.
Chemically resistant build-ups detailed to bunds and transfer bays, phased around permit-to-work.
Abrasion resistant floors and joint repairs across canal-side storage, sequenced into shutdown windows.
Seamless finishes for controlled areas, installed to hand back cleanable and reagent resistant surfaces.
We work across the town regularly, from Hooton Park and Rossmore through to Thornton and the process corridor at Stanlow and Ince, along with the canal and dock estate. We are Cheshire based rather than Ellesmere Port based, so a survey usually happens within days and there is no mobilisation charge for attending.
It depends on the substance stored, its concentration and how long it sits on the surface. A bund is protecting the structural concrete rather than just providing a wearing surface, which makes EN 1504-2 the correct reference, and the detailing at upstands, joints and penetrations matters as much as the coating.
Yes, and it is most of what we do here. Permit-to-work integration, COSHH assessment and controlled access are agreed before mobilisation. Work is sequenced into shutdown windows or taken area by area, with rapid-cure systems where the window is tight.
That depends entirely on the documented exposure. Chemical resistance is a property of the individual system, not of resin flooring generally, so we specify against concentration, temperature and contact duration rather than making a blanket claim. Epoxy covers broad chemical performance, polyurethane adds thermal cycling tolerance.
Those areas are specified on measured pendulum values in the wet condition to BS 7976, because they are frequently open to weather and rarely dry. Aggregate is graded so the loading point grips while adjacent hardstanding stays cleanable.
From £8 per square metre for a floor seal to £45 for MMA, inclusive of preparation, labour and materials. Chemically resistant build-ups sit at the upper end, and containment detailing is priced separately because it is engineering rather than area.
Tell us what the floor is exposed to, whether the area is bunded and when it can be released under permit. We attend, test the substrate, and put a written specification and a fixed price in front of you at no cost.
