Wearing surfaces
A wearing surface is the layer that takes the punishment — the tyres, the pallets, the dropped tools — so the structural floor underneath does not have to. It is specified from the traffic, not from a catalogue.
Specified from the traffic
The question is never "what is the best surface". It is what is going over it, how often, and what happens if it fails. A store room taking a pallet truck twice a week is a different floor from a loading bay under counterbalance forklifts all day. We would rather ask those questions before pricing than be called back in two years.
Typical use
- Warehouse and distribution floors under forklift traffic
- Loading bays, yards and vehicle stores
- Workshops and plant rooms
- Areas where the floor must be dust free
Questions we get asked
How do we choose one?
From the traffic. Pallet trucks, counterbalance forklifts, steel wheels and pedestrian-only are four different floors. Tell us what goes over it and how often.
Can you overlay an existing worn floor?
Usually, provided what is underneath is sound. That is a preparation question first — if the existing surface is failing, putting something on top of it fails too.
Where we have done it
Dalham Hall Stud, Newmarket
1,500 m² of concrete floor for the horse boxes, vehicles and general storage at a racing stud.
- 1,500 m²
- Epoxy coated
- Non-slip finish
Curve, Leicester Performing Arts Theatre
1,522 m² of power-floated concrete laid over underfloor heating and finished in a three-coat epoxy system for durability and colour.
- 1,522 m²
- Power floated
- Three-coat epoxy
- Over UFH
Workshop floor, prepared and sealed
Surface preparation and an epoxy coating to seal an existing workshop floor.
- Surface preparation
- Epoxy sealed
- Existing floor
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