Resin flooring contractors Urmston process, trade and commercial occupiers rely on for floors that stay wet all day. Supporting light industrial, treatment and food premises across Urmston, Davyhulme, Flixton and the western Trafford Park periphery.
Working for national manufacturers, logistics operators and public sector estates since 1999.
As resin flooring contractors Urmston occupiers call on regularly, we specify around water rather than tonnage. The town sits on the western side of Trafford between the Ship Canal at Barton and the M60 at Junctions 9 and 10, and its commercial base is peripheral and locally serving rather than large-format.
Light industrial units on the Park fringe, trade and vehicle premises on the approach roads, food and hospitality in the town centre, and a substantial water and waste treatment estate at Davyhulme beside the canal.
That last element pulls the technical brief somewhere specific. Continuously wet floors, chemical dosing exposure, drainage channels and serious slip risk, where ponding rather than abrasion is the headline failure.
Storage, distribution and light industrial units on the Urmston side, near Junction 9.
A major water and waste infrastructure estate with process buildings and plant rooms.
Trade, storage and service premises linking the town towards the Park and motorway.
A neighbouring employment area with process, manufacturing and distribution occupiers.
Vehicle workshops, MOT bays, tyre premises and local trade counters on the A5145.
Retail, food service and leisure premises with kitchens, cellars and goods-in routes.
Continuously wet floors, dosing exposure, drainage channels and severe slip risk.
Bunded containment with resistance matched to the substances actually stored.
Forklift abrasion and racking loads at a smaller and more local scale.
Grease, hot liquids, washdown and hygiene detailing with correct falls to drain.
Detergents, oils, standing water and genuinely measured anti-slip performance.
Seamless, disinfectant-resistant surfaces with coving for disease control.
In a permanently wet building, standing water is the problem. It defeats cleaning, raises slip risk and shortens the life of everything it sits on, and no surface specification fixes a floor that does not drain.
Correct falls to channels and gullies belong in the specification rather than being treated as an afterthought.
BS 7976 values in the wet state are the relevant measure for process floors and wash bays, not dry readings.
Pollution control and permitting rules require secondary containment around dosing, fuel and plant areas.
Treatment and process buildings run continuously and food premises trade daily, so areas are released one at a time and the programme is agreed against that rather than around a clear site.
Access is a genuine constraint here too. Local and residential roads limit plant delivery and material handling, so what can physically reach the building is established at survey rather than assumed.
Where polyurethane screeds are specified, and in washdown and steam-cleaned areas they usually are, ISOPA and ALIPA diisocyanate training records apply and every operative handling them holds current REACH certification.
Correct falls to channels and gullies, because ponding is the leading local failure mode.
Pollution control and permitting rules, typically bunding at 110 per cent of capacity.
BS 7976 pendulum testing in the wet condition across process floors and wash bays.
System selection following the actual inventory rather than a generic resistance claim.
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 Urmston the exposure and the drainage decide it before the traffic does.
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. Falls correction and containment detailing are priced separately, because they are 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.
Forming falls, channels and gully detail so a wet area drains rather than ponds.
Bunds, upstands and sealed junctions around dosing, fuel and chemical storage.
Damp proof membrane where a substrate fails moisture testing, as a standalone package.
Chemically resistant floors with corrected falls in permanently wet buildings.
Coved polyurethane systems with falls to drain, installed between trading days.
Oil and detergent resistant finishes with wet-tested grip around standing water.
We work across the area regularly, from the Trafford Park periphery and Barton Dock fringe through to Davyhulme, Flixton Road, the Carrington area and the town centre premises. We are Cheshire based, so a survey usually happens within days and there is no mobilisation charge for attending.
Not on its own. Ponding is a falls problem, and a new surface over a floor that does not drain simply gives you standing water on a better-looking floor. Falls to channels and gullies are corrected as part of the works and priced separately so you can see what solving it properly costs.
The wet one. BS 7976 pendulum testing in the wet state is the only relevant measure for a process floor or a wash bay, because a dry reading describes a condition the area never actually reaches. Any anti-slip claim quoted dry is not telling you what you need to know.
Secondary containment, typically at 110 per cent of the largest container. Pollution control and permitting rules bring the floor, upstands and falls into scope as part of that containment, so they are specified together rather than the floor being treated separately from the bund.
From your COSHH inventory rather than a general claim. The substances present, their concentration and how long they sit on the floor all change the answer, so we ask what is actually in use and specify against it. A blanket claim of chemical resistance is not a specification.
From £8 per square metre for a floor seal up to £45 for MMA, inclusive of preparation, labour and materials. Chemically resistant systems sit at the upper end, with falls and containment work priced separately. The full table by system is on the cost page.
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Tell us how wet the area gets, where the water goes and what is stored nearby. We attend, test the substrate, and put a written specification and a fixed price in front of you at no cost.
