Resin flooring contractors Stretford trading estate occupiers, merchants and workshops rely on for ageing concrete brought back into service. Supporting units along the eastern edge of Trafford Park, Trafford Wharfside, the Barton Dock Road corridor and the A56 Chester Road.
Working for national manufacturers, logistics operators and public sector estates since 1999.
As resin flooring contractors Stretford occupiers call on regularly, we work on the smaller stock that sits against Trafford Park rather than inside it. The town’s own commercial land is trading estate units, trade counters, vehicle and plant workshops and storage premises, with the M60 at Junction 7 close by.
Most of it was built or last refurbished between the 1950s and 1980s. The floors are power-floated concrete of variable quality, frequently sealed once decades ago and now dusting, with saw-cut joints that have lost their arrises under years of forklift and pallet truck traffic.
So the work here is refurbishment rather than replacement, and the argument is cost per year rather than headline price. These buildings earn their keep and the floors can be made to do the same.
Warehousing, trade and industrial units adjacent to the town on the Park boundary.
The dockside and canal-frontage commercial area between the Park and the Ship Canal.
Trade, storage and light industrial premises linking the Park towards the M60.
Roadside trade counters, merchants, vehicle workshops and tyre premises on the A56.
Mixed commercial, service and light industrial units close to the town centre.
Older canal-side workshop and storage premises running through towards Sale.
Dusting concrete, worn joints and localised impact at racking and shutter lines.
Heavy trolley and pallet traffic with customer footfall and an appearance expectation.
Oils, fuels, brake fluids and dropped tooling with wet bays needing measured grip.
Temperature differentials within distribution premises favouring polyurethane.
The transition from external weather to internal floor, and the main slip risk here.
Service corridors and goods-in installed overnight with immediate return to trading.
Delamination in this stock is almost always a preparation failure. A floor sealed decades ago cannot simply take another coat: what is there has to be mechanically removed and tested first, or the new system lifts exactly where the old one did.
BS 8204-6 underpins it. Previously sealed floors need mechanical preparation and testing, not another layer on top.
Saw-cut joints that have lost their edges need repair and correct detailing rather than being coated across.
Dusting concrete sheds silica under traffic, limited under EH40 to 0.1 mg per cubic metre over eight hours.
Trading estate units are measured in hundreds of square metres rather than tens of thousands, and the yard outside is shared. Vehicles turn in confined space and the unit next door keeps trading throughout.
Work is taken zone by zone or over a weekend so the business keeps running, and demarcation in the yard is planned alongside the internal floor because that is where forklifts, deliveries and customers actually meet.
Preparation runs under H-class extraction with areas screened. Removing an old sealer generates far more dust than laying the new floor does, and on a shared estate that dust is somebody else’s problem too.
COSHH duties with the EH40 limit of 0.1 mg per cubic metre over an eight-hour period.
BS 8204-6, because delamination over historic sealers is a preparation failure, not a product one.
BS 7976 pendulum values targeted just inside roller shutters where water collects.
HSE L24 where forklifts, delivery vehicles and customers share a small estate yard.
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 Stretford the lighter types usually suit the unit, once the preparation is done properly.
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. Most work here sits at the lower end, and the honest measure is cost per year rather than the price on the day.
| 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.
Mechanical removal of historic sealers and coatings back to sound, testable concrete.
Rebuilding saw-cut joint edges that have broken down under forklift and pallet traffic.
Damp proof membrane where a substrate fails moisture testing, as a standalone package.
Dusting concrete prepared and sealed so housekeeping stops being a daily battle.
Durable, presentable finishes where trolley traffic meets customer footfall.
Oil resistant systems with bunded detailing across vehicle and plant premises.
We work across the area regularly, from the Trafford Park edge and Trafford Wharfside through to the Barton Dock Road corridor, Chester Road, Great Stone Road and the canal-side units. We are Cheshire based, so a survey usually happens within days and there is no mobilisation charge for attending.
No, and that is the single most common cause of failure in this stock. A floor sealed decades ago has to be mechanically removed and the concrete tested, because a new system bonded to an old sealer lifts exactly where the previous one did. BS 8204-6 is clear that the base has to be sound and prepared.
No. Sweeping moves it around while the concrete keeps generating more, and worn floors shed respirable crystalline silica, limited under EH40 to 0.1 mg per cubic metre over eight hours. Sealing removes the source, which is why it is a control measure rather than housekeeping.
The arrises need rebuilding, and the joint needs detailing correctly rather than being coated across. Saw-cut joints in mid-century concrete lose their edges under years of forklift traffic, and covering that over is the fastest route back to the same problem.
Because rainwater and debris concentrate in exactly that zone as vehicles and trolleys come in. It is specified separately using BS 7976 pendulum values in the wet state rather than applying one finish across the whole unit, which would be over-specified everywhere else.
From £8 per square metre for a floor seal up to £45 for MMA, inclusive of preparation, labour and materials. Most trading estate work sits at the lower end, with removal of old sealers priced separately. The full table by system is on the cost page.
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Tell us what is on the floor now, how the unit is used and whether the yard is shared. We attend, test the substrate, and put a written specification and a fixed price in front of you at no cost.
