Industrial Flooring Specification, Facts, and Advice

Getting the floor right within an industrial facility is critical to ensuring that the site can maintain a safe, hygienic and efficient operational environment. However, choosing the optimum flooring solution is a difficult task and statistics show that many industrial floor coverings will fail within the first two years of service, creating enormous upheaval and expense to the client. In fact, flooring represents the second highest area of litigation in the construction industry.

The surest way to avoid resin floor failure is to take the necessary steps at material specification stage to prevent the problem from occurring in the first place by selecting fit-for-purpose, durable floor systems that have been designed to meet the operational demands of the individual environment alongside any health, safety, hygiene, and compliance regulations specific to that industry.

Some of the most common mistakes that should be avoided during the specification stage include choosing a finish based only on its visuals, picking the cheapest option, simply using the same system as before, and paying little attention to the substrate or the practicalities of the site’s future use. Falling into any one of these traps could result in the application of an inadequate floor that will crack, crumble and fail when faced with the site’s day-to-day demands.