Resin flooring contractors Leyland assembly plants, component manufacturers and supply chain operators rely on for floors that take fluids and vehicles. Supporting production and distribution facilities across Lancashire Business Park, Moss Side, Leyland Business Park and Farington.
Working for national manufacturers, logistics operators and public sector estates since 1999.
As resin flooring contractors Leyland manufacturers call on regularly, we specify against fluids and vehicle movement rather than pallet traffic. The town sits at Junction 28 of the M6, with the A582 linking it to Farington and Lostock Hall, and its economy is built on vehicle and component manufacturing and the supply chain around it.
Assembly halls, paint and preparation areas, component production and internal vehicle movement all appear in the same town, and each brings a different exposure.
Hydraulic oil, brake and coolant fluids, solvent-based products, dropped tooling and pneumatic line drops act on floors that also carry line-side racking, jigs and finished vehicles. That combination is what makes the specification here.
A large employment site at Centurion Way with manufacturing and distribution units.
Established industrial estate with production, engineering and storage units.
Mixed industrial and commercial premises serving manufacturing and trade occupiers.
Manufacturing and distribution premises on the northern edge towards Preston.
Industrial and trade units on Golden Hill Lane with commercial vehicle movement.
Counter, workshop and yard areas with mixed foot and vehicle traffic in town.
Abrasion under tug and trolley movement with markings that survive a line change.
Press and machine base loads, oil and coolant exposure and swarf abrasion.
Solvent resistance, cleanability and static control where flammables are handled.
Tyre marking resistance, turning wear and grip where wet vehicles come in.
Clear demarcation of stock footprints, walkways and internal vehicle routes.
Chemically resistant, contained and bunded floor detailing throughout.
When the vehicle is both the product and the traffic, segregation stops being housekeeping. The 1992 Workplace Regulations and HSE guidance L24 make marked routes, crossings and exclusion zones a designed element of the floor, and they have to survive a line change.
Line changes move the layout, so demarcation is laid in resin and planned to be re-set.
Hydraulic oil, coolant, brake fluid and solvents behave differently under a resin system.
EN 1081 resistance testing supports conductive specification in paint and solvent areas.
Production sites here release floors during planned breaks rather than on request, so the programme is built backwards from your shutdown and agreed before a system is chosen.
Work is taken cell by cell or bay by bay, with detailing formed up to press bases, jigs and plinths rather than stopping short of them. Where a zone has to be back under load quickly, cure behaviour is set out rather than a completion date promised.
Where polyurethane systems are used, and around paint and solvent areas they frequently are, ISOPA and ALIPA diisocyanate training records apply and every operative holds current REACH certification.
The 1992 Regulations and HSE L24, where marked routes and crossings are part of the floor.
Selection against hydraulic oil, coolants, brake fluid, fuels and solvent-based products.
Containment at 110% of capacity wherever oils, fuels or chemicals are stored on site.
BS 7976 pendulum testing specified for oil rather than water where fluids reach walkways.
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 where the concrete is being protected. Polyaspartic and MMA sit outside that classification because they describe the resin chemistry rather than the build-up. In Leyland the fluids and the plant loads decide the type together.
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. Paint areas and press bays sit at the upper end, and demarcation schemes are priced separately because they are design work.
| 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.
Routes, crossings, exclusion zones and stock footprints set out and laid in resin.
Bunds, upstands and sealed junctions around oil, fuel and chemical storage.
Damp proof membrane where a substrate fails moisture testing, as a standalone package.
Abrasion resistant floors with demarcation planned to be re-set at a line change.
Impact tolerant build-ups under press bases with coolant and oil resistance.
Solvent resistant systems with static control where flammable products are used.
We work across South Ribble regularly, from Lancashire Business Park at Centurion Way and Moss Side through to Leyland Business Park, the Farington employment area, Titan Way and the trade premises around Hough Lane. We are Cheshire based, so a survey usually happens within days and there is no mobilisation charge for attending.
No, but it should be planned for. Demarcation laid in resin survives the traffic where paint does not, and a scheme designed with line changes in mind can be re-set rather than fought with. It is worth agreeing at specification how routes will be altered when the layout moves.
Whichever ones you use, and they behave differently. Hydraulic oil, coolant, brake fluid, fuels and solvent-based products each attack a system in their own way, so we ask for the inventory and specify against it. EN 1504-2 covers protecting the concrete itself where exposure reaches it.
Solvent resistance, cleanability and, where flammable products are handled, a controlled electrical resistance. EN 1081 gives the test basis for conductive or dissipative floors, and it is specified with a value and an earthing detail rather than described as anti-static.
That is how most production work here is programmed. The sequence is built backwards from your shutdown, taken cell by cell, with detailing formed up to press bases and jigs. We give cure behaviour rather than promising a completion date, because a slipped restart is expensive.
From £8 per square metre for a floor seal up to £45 for MMA, inclusive of preparation, labour and materials. Paint areas and heavy press bays sit at the upper end, with demarcation priced separately. The full table by system is on the cost page.
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Tell us what reaches the floor, what stands on it and when the shutdown falls. We attend, test the substrate, and put a written specification and a fixed price in front of you at no cost.
