As Health and Safety Standards within a workplace increase particularly within industries around food handling, laws regarding the finishes required to operate within any given premises have increased. This includes the type of floor covering required by HACCP to be installed prior to food handling operations taking place.

With the increased standards for food handling premises and their governed finishes we understand how this impacts these businesses. An extended setting up period, whereby floors and walls are specifically crafted to meet requirements, can be draining on the new businesses beginning capital/ start up costs. As a new business you are needing to be focusing on the turning over of revenue, not where the flooring contractors are up to with the job and when HACCP has their initial inspection to certify the premise prior to operation. 

At Superior Concrete Finishes, we have made it our ultimate goal to be the market leaders within the epoxy flooring industry. Our expertise in these areas, particularly within commercial flooring ensure our clients of the timely and quality manner which all of our jobs are completed.

The benefits of installing a seamless epoxy floor 

• Durability & Longevity – Epoxy floor coatings have a long durable life when installed correctly with suitable preparation. Our long-lasting clients have often mentioned how the floors have still looked new and fresh 5, 8, 10 years on from application. If that’s not a testimony, what is?
• Easy to Clean – Commercial epoxy flooring is the optimal solution for cleanliness. The seamless nature of the floor ensures that spills of any substance can be wiped away with ease.
• Stylish & Visually Appealing – Hard flooring is super trendy and in fashion as this industrial sheik look is in, thus, you can rest assured you are getting a timeless finish they will suit future changes you may make to your commercial premise.
• Wide Variety of Colours & Pattern Variations – Our colour & pattern variations assist in guaranteeing our clients that they will find something that matches their premises colour scheme/ design plan.

Types of flooring options are available

There are two options that we strongly advise in regard to commercial kitchens:  Epoxy Plain Coated Flooring OR Flake Flooring. Both of these options are seamless in nature and allow us to bring your kitchen floor to the most optimal and certifiable level for HACCP.

The process to laying a commercial kitchen floor 

Step 1:  Grind, Patch & Prime

• Captive diamond grinding the concrete to ensure a smooth, clean & porous surface to apply the epoxy coating.
• Patch visible concrete cracks and holes.
• Apply epoxy base coat.

Step 2:  Prime & Flake

• Prime using the applicable epoxy base coat.
• Broadcasting the flake across the WET epoxy floor coating

Step 3:  Seal x2

• Two polyurethane coatings to seal the floor, regardless if it is plain or flake flooring

Top Tips for Commercial Kitchen Epoxy Flooring Solution 

• We have dealt with multiple occasions, whereby, HACCP has halted the businesses operation because they thought they could ‘get away with it’. We then have to return to a client who wants to get their business operational again and is highly rushed and pressured. The time saved to get the full HACCP flooring package to begin with eliminates heart ache when you don’t meet HACCP requirements.

• Choose a colour which is going to be adaptable to your businesses change in design/ colour scheme. Typically, people will choose the light pastel/ gray/ white colour palette to ensure that the floors can be used with multiple styles of furniture