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Commercial Flooring — Food Service & Hospitality

Food Service & Commercial
Kitchen Floor Systems

Cementitious urethane and resin flooring systems that meet health authority requirements for food service environments. Seamless, chemical resistant, and engineered for the thermal extremes of commercial kitchens, car washes, breweries, and food processing facilities.

Why Standard Epoxy Fails in Commercial Kitchens

The Wrong System Costs You Double

Commercial kitchen floors face conditions that destroy standard epoxy within a season. Rapid temperature cycling between boiling water and walk-in freezers. Concentrated food acids and alkali cleaning chemicals. Constant wet conditions. Steam cleaning at high pressure. This is called thermal shock — and standard epoxy cannot handle it.

When hot water contacts an epoxy floor and the temperature drops rapidly during refrigeration cycles, the thermal expansion differential causes the coating to crack and delaminate. The floor fails. The client calls you to fix it at your cost. That's a scenario we prevent by specifying the right system the first time.

The correct system for commercial kitchens, car washes, and any environment with thermal cycling is cementitious urethane (PUCEM) — rated from -120°F to +220°F. The only resin flooring that genuinely handles those conditions long-term.

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Systems

Food Service Floor Coating Systems

Different zones within a food service facility have different requirements. We specify the right system for each area.

Back of House — Required System
Cementitious Urethane (PUCEM)

The definitive system for commercial kitchens, car washes, breweries, and food processing. A polymer-modified cement-based system applied at 1/4" (6mm) thick — thermally stable from -120°F to +220°F, chemical resistant to food acids, alkalis, grease, and steam cleaning chemicals. Bonds to damp concrete. FDA-compliant. Seamless and non-porous. Double broadcast system with anti-slip aggregate is standard for sloped floors draining to floor drains. Fast pot life — crew installation required. The only system that genuinely survives the full thermal cycling range of a commercial kitchen environment.

Best for: Commercial kitchens, car washes, breweries, food processing, hospital dietary
Front of House — Dining & Retail
High-Build Epoxy or Polished Concrete

For dining areas, retail floors, lobbies, and service areas not subject to the thermal extremes of the kitchen, a high-build epoxy system or polished concrete finish is appropriate. Epoxy provides design flexibility — seamless, easy to clean, available in colours that match your brand aesthetic. Polished concrete delivers an upscale, natural look with zero ongoing coating maintenance. Both systems include anti-slip additives as standard.

Best for: Dining rooms, lobbies, retail service counters, entrance areas
Car Washes & Wet Environments
Hybrid MVB + Polyurea + Polyurethane

For car wash bays and high-moisture wet environments, we use a multi-layer hybrid system: moisture vapor barrier (MVB), polyurea body coats with double broadcast aggregate for pitch maintenance on sloped floors, polyaspartic intermediate coat, and polyurethane topcoat. The double broadcast system is critical on sloped floors — it maintains the pitch to the drain so water keeps flowing properly. A 6-layer system that is built to outlast the previous coating that failed.

Best for: Car wash bays, wash-down areas, wet rooms with floor drains
Breweries & Food Manufacturing
PUCEM with Coved Bases

Breweries and food manufacturing require the full PUCEM system on floors plus coved bases at wall junctions — eliminating the right-angle join between floor and wall where bacteria and moisture accumulate. The coved base is integrated into the floor system for a fully seamless, cleanable surface that satisfies health authority inspection requirements. Meets HACCP requirements for food processing environments.

Best for: Breweries, distilleries, food manufacturing, commissary kitchens
FAQ

Commercial Kitchen Flooring — Common Questions

Can the kitchen stay open during floor installation?
We schedule kitchen floor installations during your closed hours — typically overnight or over a weekend. Cementitious urethane systems have defined recoat windows and the floor can typically be returned to light service within 24 hours of the final coat. We coordinate the installation schedule with your kitchen manager to minimize operational disruption.
Does the floor need to be replaced or can it be coated over existing concrete?
In most cases, the existing concrete slab can be coated. We assess the slab condition, moisture content, and any existing failed coatings before specifying. Spalled areas and cracks are repaired before installation. If moisture is above 10%, a moisture vapor barrier primer is applied first. We give you an honest assessment of what your slab needs — no unnecessary work added.
What's the difference between cementitious urethane and standard epoxy for a kitchen?
Standard epoxy cannot withstand thermal shock — the rapid temperature changes between steam cleaning and refrigerated environments cause it to delaminate. Cementitious urethane is specifically formulated for this environment. It's also thicker (6mm vs 1-2mm for thin-film epoxy), harder wearing, bonds to damp concrete, and is rated for the full temperature range of commercial kitchen operations.

Food Service Flooring in BC?

We work with restaurant groups, hotel operators, food manufacturers, and commercial developers to specify the right system for every environment.

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