Resin flooring contractors Morecambe hospitality operators, manufacturers and energy support businesses rely on for two very different briefs. Supporting seafront kitchens and cellars alongside industrial and marine facilities at White Lund, Middleton and Heysham.
Working for national manufacturers, logistics operators and public sector estates since 1999.
As resin flooring contractors Morecambe operators call on regularly, we switch between two briefs that share nothing but a postcode. The town faces the bay across a promenade frontage of hotels and catering, with the White Lund estate inland and the Heysham peninsula and its port and energy sites to the south west.
On the seafront the questions are grease, water and a short overnight window. Kitchens, cellars, wash-up areas and function-room service routes in confined layouts with seasonal peaks.
Inland and on the peninsula they are entirely different. Forklift wear at White Lund, and salt, moisture, hydraulic oil and heavy dropped components across marine and energy support workshops, now linked to Junction 34 by the Bay Gateway.
The principal industrial area of the district, with manufacturing and trade units.
Industrial and commercial units serving peninsula energy, marine and engineering work.
Vehicle, freight and marine handling areas with salt exposure and heavy plant.
Roadside industrial and distribution premises on the A683 towards Junction 34.
Hotel kitchens, cellars, wash-up and plant areas with limited access routes.
Trade counters, workshops and service premises with mixed vehicle traffic.
Grease and water in confined kitchen layouts with coving and falls to gullies.
Sugar solutions, hosing, standing water and thermal cycling from hot discharge.
Cage and trolley traffic with weather ingress at the external goods doors.
Abrasion under forklift traffic with joint protection at loading points.
Salt and moisture, hydraulic oil and heavy dropped components underfoot.
Weather-exposed transitions, standing water and continuous vehicle movement.
The instinct in a kitchen is a smooth floor that wipes clean. Under grease and water that is precisely what makes it dangerous. The finish has to be chosen for the real contaminant, and a measured value is the only way to know whether it is.
BS 7976 pendulum values against grease, water and cleaning chemicals together, rather than a wet reading alone.
At port and peninsula sites EN 1504-2 protection matters, with moisture testing in older seafront basements.
Hospitality works overnight and out of season; industrial and energy support work goes into shutdowns and outages.
The seafront and the peninsula release floors in completely different ways, so the programme is agreed per building rather than applied as a standard method.
Hotel kitchens and cellars go in overnight between services or into the quieter season, with rapid-cure systems where a room has to trade the next day. Industrial and energy support work is planned into shutdown and outage windows agreed well in advance.
Where polyurethane systems are specified, and in wash-up and washdown areas they usually are, ISOPA and ALIPA diisocyanate training records apply and every operative holds current REACH certification.
BS 7976 pendulum testing with the finish chosen for grease, water and chemicals.
Coved skirtings, sealed junctions and falls, in cellars and wash-up as well as kitchens.
EN 1504-2 concrete protection at port and peninsula sites, with moisture testing.
Bunding at 110% at fuel stores, with HSE L24 where people cross plant movement.
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 Morecambe the building decides which half of the range applies.
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. Kitchen and wash-up screeds sit at the upper end, and rapid-cure systems carry a premium that an overnight window usually justifies.
| 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 falls to gullies in kitchens, cellars and wash-up areas.
Bunds, upstands and sealed junctions at fuel, oil and chemical storage points.
Damp proof membrane where a substrate fails moisture testing, as a standalone package.
Polyurethane systems with coving and falls, installed overnight between services.
Abrasion resistant floors with joint protection at loading and turning points.
Salt and oil resistant systems installed into agreed shutdown and outage windows.
We work across the bay area regularly, from White Lund and Middleton Business Park through to the Heysham harbour estate, the Bay Gateway corridor, the Promenade frontage and the Westgate commercial corridor. We are Cheshire based, so a survey usually happens within days and there is no mobilisation charge for attending.
No, and it is the commonest mistake we see. A smooth floor wipes clean but becomes dangerous under grease and water, which are the two things always present in a working kitchen. Easy to clean and safe are not the same thing, and BS 7976 pendulum testing against the real contaminant is what settles it.
At the port and on the peninsula it does. Salt and moisture attack the concrete as well as the finish, so EN 1504-2 protection becomes the frame rather than treating resin as a wearing surface. In older seafront basements moisture testing is worth doing before anything is priced.
Usually thermal cycling and sugars together. Hot discharge from wash-up and repeated hosing put the floor through a cycle, and sugar solutions attack an unsuitable system. Polyurethane with proper falls handles it, and the drainage matters as much as the finish.
Yes, and the two halves of the town work differently. Hospitality is taken overnight between services or into the quieter months, while industrial and energy support work is planned into shutdown and outage windows agreed in advance. The programme is built from your calendar rather than ours.
From £8 per square metre for a floor seal up to £45 for MMA, inclusive of preparation, labour and materials. Kitchen and wash-up screeds sit at the upper end, with coving and falls priced separately. The full table by system is on the cost page.
Tell us what reaches the floor, how it is cleaned and whether the window is a night or an outage. We attend, test the substrate, and put a written specification and a fixed price in front of you at no cost.
