Resin flooring contractors Skelmersdale national distribution operators rely on for floor plates measured in tens of thousands of square metres. Supporting warehousing, fulfilment and manufacturing facilities across Pimbo, Gillibrands, Stanley and White Moss.
Working for national manufacturers, logistics operators and public sector estates since 1999.
As resin flooring contractors Skelmersdale operators call on regularly, we spend as long on the programme as on the specification. The town sits beside the M58 at Junctions 4 and 5, a short run from Junction 26 of the M6, and its new town land holds some of the largest single-occupier buildings in the county.
Those buildings are fewer and far larger than Chorley’s, they serve national rather than regional networks, and they run close to twenty-four hours. Floor areas run to tens of thousands of square metres.
So phasing dominates, wear concentrates into predictable channels along main runs and dock lines, and any intervention has to be planned around a network that cannot pause.
One of the largest employment areas, with major distribution and manufacturing buildings.
Established industrial and distribution area with substantial plates and heavy access.
Industrial, storage and trade units serving distribution and production occupiers.
Commercial and industrial premises on the northern side of the town itself.
Roadside distribution and industrial premises taking direct motorway access.
Mixed industrial, trade and service units within the new town road network.
Concentrated wear on main runs with joint arris breakdown under constant movement.
Point loads under racking legs and tight tolerance on surface regularity.
Dust-free, dimensionally stable floors with cabling and anchor detail planned in.
The most damaged area of any shed, needing armoured edges and correct falls.
Cage traffic, packaging dust and layout changes needing re-markable demarcation.
Fuel and oil resistance with bunded containment detailing around wash bays.
These floors do not wear out evenly. Joint arrises break down under high-frequency forklift movement and dock lines take every trailer, and it is joint and edge failure rather than surface wear that actually triggers refurbishment in a building this size.
Induced joints, arris repair, armoured edging and sealant selection are the real scope.
In high-bay and narrow-aisle buildings, regularity and point load capacity are the argument.
Across hundreds of metres of route, segregation under HSE L24 becomes a design exercise.
Nothing here closes for a floor. Sectional and bay-by-bay working is the delivery method rather than a concession, and the sequence is agreed against your operational plan before a system is chosen.
Where rapid-cure systems are used, we give realistic curing and trafficking times rather than optimistic ones. Credibility with a national operation depends on the programme holding, and an overstated return-to-service figure costs far more than the floor.
Preparation runs under H-class extraction with areas screened. A worn floor dusting into packaging, product and picking equipment is a COSHH matter, with the EH40 limit of 0.1 mg per cubic metre over eight hours applying to respirable crystalline silica.
BS 8204-6 with the right FeRFA type and EN 13813 where flatness and point loads govern.
Induced and construction joints, arris repair and sealant selection as the scope itself.
HSE L24 across some of the busiest pedestrian and forklift interfaces in the county.
The EH40 limit where a worn floor is shedding into packaging, product and equipment.
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 where flatness and screed performance have to be evidenced. Polyaspartic and MMA sit outside that classification because they describe the resin chemistry rather than the build-up. In Skelmersdale they are 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. On a plate this size the joint and dock repair is usually the job, and it is priced separately from any area rate.
| 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.
Arris rebuilding, armoured edging and sealant selection along runs and dock lines.
Route, crossing and zone schemes designed across long distances and laid in resin.
Damp proof membrane where a substrate fails moisture testing, as a standalone package.
Sectional systems and joint repairs delivered bay by bay around continuous running.
Armoured edge detailing at levellers, phased door by door around trailer movement.
Dust-controlled, dimensionally stable finishes laid around fixed equipment and anchors.
We work across West Lancashire regularly, from Pimbo and Gillibrands through to Stanley, White Moss, the M58 Junction 4 and 5 corridor and the Statham Road industrial area. We are Cheshire based, so a survey usually happens within days and there is no mobilisation charge for attending.
Very rarely. In a building this size the joint arrises and dock lines are what fail, while the field between them stays sound. Repairing joints and armouring edges is usually the job, and it costs a fraction of relaying a plate that does not need it.
In high-bay and narrow-aisle buildings it is the specification. Surface regularity and point load capacity under racking legs determine whether trucks track properly and how stable a mast is at height, so BS 8204-6 and EN 13813 are used to state it rather than leaving it to be assumed.
Sectionally, and it is the delivery method rather than an exception. Work is taken bay by bay, aisle by aisle or door by door with racking left loaded where possible, and the sequence is agreed against your operational plan before anything is specified.
We give realistic curing and trafficking times rather than optimistic ones, which on a national operation is worth more than a fast figure. An overstated handover costs far more than the floor does, so we set out how the system behaves and let you plan against it.
From £8 per square metre for a floor seal up to £45 for MMA, inclusive of preparation, labour and materials. Joint and dock repair is priced separately and is often the whole scope. The full table by system is on the cost page, with a calculator that adds the cost of stopped operations.
Tell us the plate size, where the joints and dock lines are going 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.
