The Oxford Bakery and Café Ltd – Food Grade Flooring
Client Brief & Recommendation
When called in to look at The Oxford Bakery and Café Ltd, in Botley, Oxfordshire’s 206 square meter bakery area floor it was recommended that installing a nominal 6mm heavy duty Resdev Pumadur RT polyurethane screed to the full 206 square metres would provide the Hardwearing, easy to clean floor that they needed. The normal choice of floor for this sector, is a heavy-duty polyurethane RT or HF screed. Normally either 6mm or 9mm thick.
The floor had multiple layers of failed floor paint that needed to be removed before the chosen nominal 6mm heavy duty Resedv Pumadur RT polyurethane, textured, matt, in the clients chosen mid grey colour could be laid.
Preparing The Floor
Multiple layers of failed floor paint were removed and the floor surface was thoroughly cleaned using a captive double headed diamond grinding floor preparation system. In addition, the job entailed a handheld total enclosed 110v diamond grinding machine for the edge work.
After vacuuming clean all dust and residue, 10mm x 6mm saw cuts were added to the perimeter of floor area. As well as, the door thresholds, around drains and gullies and where necessary to toe in and anchor screed.
206 sqm nominal 6mm heavy duty Resedv Pumadur RT polyurethane flooring system
A coat of polyurethane resin priming system with heavy scatter of 0.7 to 1.2mm quartz aggregate was applied to prevent rising moisture before the nominal 6mm heavy duty Resedv Pumadur RT polyurethane, textured, matt, in the clients chosen mid grey colour was laid.
The job was completed in just 4 days over the Christmas shutdown period.
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