Severn Valley Foods – Food Grade Flooring
PSC Flooring were delighted to assist a growing commercial butcher, who are expanding their business and bought a new bigger premises totalled 480 square metres. Severn Valley Foodservice supplies high quality meat for catering companies and businesses across Shropshire and Shrewsbury, Telford and Ludlow.
Client Brief and Recommendations
The client was looking for a food grade, seamless, hygienic, hard wearing, chemical resistant resin screed, that was easy to clean. PSC proposed to install a 6mm Resdev’s Pumadur RT polyurethane screed and 100mm high polyurethane coving to the perimeter walls, perfect for Butchers and meat processing as it is seamless, providing a hygienic and easy to clean floor surface. At the site visit it was noted that there were failed floor coatings on the concrete that would need to be thoroughly cleaned before installing the 6mm Food Grade Flooring System.
In Preparation
In Preparation for the 6mm Food Grade Flooring System and to remove the failed floor coatings, we used an enclosed floor scabbling machine and enclosed double headed diamond grinding machine, along with totally enclosed handheld 110v diamond grinding machine. Once ground back the floor was then vacuumed clean of all residues and dust.
10mm x 10mm saw cuts were made to door thresholds, around drains and to perimeter of floor area and where necessary to toe in and anchor the Food Grade Flooring screed. Finally, repairs were made to localised damaged concrete and cracks using resin screed and polyurethane mortar compound.
480 square metres of 6mm RT polyurethane screed
To ensure maximum adhesion, we first applied one coat of Redev Pumatect epoxy resin primer, including a 0.7 to 1.2mm quartz aggregate. Once the primer dried, we laid a nominal 6mm heavy-duty Resdev Pumadur RT polyurethane, with a textured, matte finish, across the entire floor in the client’s chosen Chelsea Blue color.
Finally, we recut the expansion joints by saw cutting 6mm x 6mm channels to mirror existing joints and around drains. We knocked out the old joints and infilled them with polyurethane jointing compound.
The project took 5 days from start to finish. The client will now begin installing fridges, cutting rooms, and freezers before PSC returns to install 100mm high polyurethane coving along the perimeter walls.
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