flooring... again

RE: flooring... again

Anthony Todd — Wed, 12 Jun 2019 10:50:46 GMT

[quote user="Julie Innes"]

I've been thinking about reflooring, but I rent the premises and it is a big area! I take it these screeded floors are fairly "permanent" and expensive??

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Yes, expensive, and not all builders understand the idea! They only work well with concrete or brick walls but you can get vinyl to run up the junction and it's flexible to some extent. You may now be able to get curved edge support mouldings to go under the curved vinyl and support it.

You've still got corners to deal with.....

We tried epoxy resin directly applied to concrete with disastrous results, as it peeled up when damaged.... there will be better materials now.

Stick-on coving, in my experience, didn't stick forever and leaves cracks and poor joins even with welded seams.

[I was influenced by a US architect who had to design public loos and tried to design a "flushable building" which is what, theoretically, you want in a clean/"sterile" environment like a vet. practice]

"The kennels stand on the floor and can be moved.."

Sorry, didn't realise, but why would you want to move them except for the cleaning beneath?

Possibly in a temporary location?

RE: flooring... again

Julie Innes — Wed, 12 Jun 2019 08:41:25 GMT

I've been thinking about reflooring, but I rent the premises and it is a big area! I take it these screeded floors are fairly "permanent" and expensive??

RE: flooring... again

Joyce Whitehead — Wed, 12 Jun 2019 08:39:08 GMT

The kennels stand on the floor and can be moved...

RE: flooring... again

Niall Taylor — Tue, 11 Jun 2019 22:48:44 GMT

[quote user="Anthony Todd"]Sorry, I was just looking at the apparent gaps between and under the kennels.[/quote]

RE: flooring... again

Anthony Todd — Tue, 11 Jun 2019 21:07:51 GMT

[quote user="Joyce Whitehead"]’m not sure if Anthony thinks there are small gaps in ours to collect dirt or not! But if he thinks so, he is wrong as the flooring is curved up the wall at all junctions to create a flooring “skirting board” with no gaps at all. All sealed to the floor and joins sealed too. [/quote]

Sorry, I was just looking at the apparent gaps between and under the kennels. May have been an optical illusion or my mistake, sorry.

RE: flooring... again

Joyce Whitehead — Tue, 11 Jun 2019 20:51:44 GMT

I’m not sure if Anthony thinks there are small gaps in ours to collect dirt or not! But if he thinks so, he is wrong as the flooring is curved up the wall at all junctions to create a flooring “skirting board” with no gaps at all. All sealed to the floor and joins sealed too.

RE: flooring... again

Niall Taylor — Tue, 11 Jun 2019 16:20:27 GMT

[quote user="Anthony Todd"]

Profile the concrete, or screeded edges of the flooring... Our floor guys used a plastic beach/soccer ball...[/quote]

Brilliant!

[quote user="Anthony Todd"]Avoid small gaps in all planes if you can which will collect dirt etc. as is seen in the picture above[/quote]

Niall

RE: flooring... again

Anthony Todd — Tue, 11 Jun 2019 11:48:15 GMT

Two things which might be considered:

Cut the door stops 100mm from floor so removing the tight corners at the bottom of door frames which are hard to keep clean.

Profile the concrete, or screeded edges of the flooring, so avoid stuck on plastic coving and crevasses which are impossible to clean quickly or easily.

Our floor guys used a plastic beach/soccer ball.....

Avoid small gaps in all planes if you can which will collect dirt etc. as is seen in the picture above.

RE: flooring... again

Joyce Whitehead — Mon, 10 Jun 2019 21:49:03 GMT

We’ve just had our kennels refloored as they had rather rubbish Lino in there. We used Polyflor fitted by commercial fitters. They did apply a screed first, then the floor is epoxy resinned to the screed. It’s a safety flooring so non slip surface. It’s the same as the floor in the rest of our building which has lasted nearly 20 years so far.

RE: flooring... again

Niall Taylor — Mon, 10 Jun 2019 20:54:37 GMT

We used Altro and found it very good but the joins between different areas are a bit of a weak spot and have to be patched occasionally. The MOST important thing is not the material it is, without question, the contractor.

For example, we had an excellent poured epoxy flooring in our large animal theatre which the contractors managed to very carefully slope UP to the drains meaning we ended up with great puddles of water pooling between the drains which were nicely high and dry little islands set amid the water they were supposed to be draining away. With Altro if there is too much tension on the sheets, that's when the joins break down, and covings are crucial, if the contractor doesn't get them right, again, they will pull away from the wall.

Good luck!

Niall