Resin flooring contractors Nelson textile, packaging and light manufacturing businesses rely on when nobody knows what is under the floor. Supporting multi-occupancy mill units across Lomeshaye Industrial Estate, the Brierfield canal corridor and the older town-centre blocks.
Working for national manufacturers, logistics operators and public sector estates since 1999.
As resin flooring contractors Nelson occupiers call on regularly, we start with what is on the floor and what is beneath it. The town lies in the Pendle valley between Junctions 12 and 13 of the M65, and its industry works out of weaving-shed and mill stock at close quarters.
Those buildings frequently carry historic screeds, bitumen, tile adhesive residues, patch repairs and no effective damp-proof membrane. Existing finishes vary within a single building, and levels change between bays.
The other defining feature is tenure. Several businesses commonly share one floor, one service yard and one set of access routes, so the work has to be planned around neighbours who are still trading.
Almost every failed industrial floor comes back to the same four variables: the condition of the substrate, the quality of the preparation, the temperature and contamination on site, and whether the system was matched to the traffic it actually carries.
Get those right and a resin floor runs for fifteen years and more. Get them wrong and it blisters, delaminates or dusts within a year or two, regardless of what the manufacturer’s datasheet claims.
We survey the substrate before we quote it. That means moisture testing, an assessment of what is already down, and a written specification naming the system, its FeRFA type and its thickness — so you know what you are buying and so does anyone who has to approve it.
Diamond grinding or shot blasting back to sound concrete, moisture testing to confirm the substrate is dry enough to coat, and repair of cracks, joints and spalled areas before any resin is mixed. Skipping this is why cheap floors blister and peel.
Substrate condition, preparation quality, temperature and contamination are the four variables that determine whether a resin floor lasts fifteen years or fifteen months. FeRFA guidance is explicit: resin flooring follows the substrate profile beneath it.
The principal industrial area, with manufacturing, textile, storage and trade units.
Large converted mill buildings along the canal in mixed commercial and light use.
Roadside industrial, trade and service premises linking the town to Junction 13.
Older multi-occupancy industrial premises close to the town centre itself.
Industrial and storage units to the east serving the wider Pendle area.
Trade counters, workshops and service premises with mixed foot and vehicle use.
Mixed and unknown finishes, uneven levels between bays and trading neighbours.
Fibre and dust control, machine base loads and oil from looms and plant.
Particle control, static dissipation where needed and trolley traffic abrasion.
Coved, non-porous detailing with falls to drainage in smaller premises.
Abrasion resistance and joint treatment on repeatedly patched concrete.
Weather ingress, mixed traffic and routes nobody has actually defined.
Under BS 8204-6 the base has to be sound, clean and prepared, and on Pendle mill stock nobody knows whether it is until it has been tested. Moisture measurement, adhesion testing and mechanical preparation are the difference between a floor that lasts and a delamination claim.
Historic screeds, bitumen, adhesive residues and patch repairs decide what will bond.
Most of this stock predates damp-proof membranes, so humidity is measured before pricing.
Finishes and levels vary within one building, so a single specification is usually wrong.
In a multi-occupancy mill the unit next door is somebody else’s business, and the yard, the corridor and the loading point are shared. Access, noise, odour and dust control are agreed with that in mind before we start.
Floors are taken bay by bay or over a weekend, with services that run at floor level identified at survey rather than discovered during preparation.
Preparation runs under H-class extraction with areas screened. Textile fibre already loads the air in many of these buildings, and the EH40 limit of 0.1 mg per cubic metre over eight hours applies to respirable crystalline silica from grinding worn concrete.
Moisture measurement, adhesion testing and preparation on substrates of unknown origin.
The EH40 limit of 0.1 mg per cubic metre where fibre already loads the air in mills.
EN 1081 resistance testing in packaging, print and plastics, distinct from durability.
EN 13501-1 with the fl suffix, which matters more where escape routes are shared.
FeRFA classifies resin flooring into eight types by build-up and thickness, and BS 8204-6 governs which one a floor actually needs, with EN 13813 for the screed and EN 1081 where electrical resistance is required. Polyaspartic and MMA sit outside that classification because they describe the resin chemistry rather than the build-up. In Nelson the survey result decides the type.
FeRFA Type 1. Two or more coats up to 150 microns, binding a dusting substrate and giving a cleanable surface. From £8 per square metre.
FeRFA Type 2. Dual component to 300 microns, solvent free, in gloss, matt or silk. Chemical resistance with a decorative finish.
FeRFA Type 3. Up to 1000 microns over prepared concrete and the system specified on most industrial jobs. Takes colour well for demarcation.
FeRFA Type 4. Multi-coat build at 1 to 3mm with aggregate broadcast between coats, for impact and constant wear.
FeRFA Type 5. Flow-applied at 2 to 3mm for a seamless finish where hygiene and cleaning matter more than impact resistance.
FeRFA Type 7. Three part filled system at 4 to 6mm thickness, giving a self-smoothing finish for heavy and very heavy duty areas.
FeRFA Types 7 and 8. Trowel-applied at 6 to 9mm to take thermal shock, steam cleaning and constant heavy forklift traffic.
Cures at temperatures down to −5°C and is ready in around two hours. Installed overnight or at a weekend it can remove the need to shutdown entirely.
Cures in hours, but the odour can taint food, fabrics and stock and the area must be cleared and ventilated. Better suited to new build and refurbishment projects.
Rates run from £8 per square metre for a floor seal to £45 for MMA, inclusive of preparation, labour and materials. On mill stock the preparation and repair are priced separately, because that is the part that cannot be quoted without a survey.
| System | FeRFA | Thickness | Per m² |
|---|---|---|---|
| Floor Seal | Type 1 | Up to 150µm | From £8 |
| Epoxy and PU Coating | Type 2 | 150 – 300µm | £8 – £12 |
| High Build Coating | Type 3 | 300 – 1000µm | £8 – £12 |
| Multi-Layer Flooring | Type 4 | 1 – 3mm | £12 – £16 |
| Self-Smoothing | Type 5 | 2 – 4mm | £20 – £30 |
| Heavy Duty Flowable | Type 7 | 4 – 6mm | £25 – £35 |
| Heavy Duty PU Screed | Type 8 | 6 – 9mm | £30 – £40 |
| Polyaspartic | Chemistry | 300 – 500µm | £38 |
| MMA | Chemistry | 2 – 6mm | £45 |
Inclusive of preparation, labour and materials. Rates assume a sound, accessible substrate and are indicative until the floor has been surveyed. Polyaspartic and MMA sit outside the FeRFA type classification because they describe the resin chemistry rather than the build-up.
A three day shutdown at a plant turning over £2,000 an hour is £120,000 of lost output. On most sites that is several times the price of the floor.
Five contractors quoted one timber processing plant. All five proposed the same system and a three to four day closure. None of them costed the closure.
We proposed a faster-curing system installed across a weekend. A higher rate per square metre, and no shutdown at all. On the client’s own figures the avoided losses exceeded the price of the floor.
We install evenings, weekends and one bay at a time.
Whether a shutdown costs you thousands an hour or simply gets in the way, you do not always have to close your site for a resin flooring installation.
Taking off historic screeds, bitumen and adhesive residues back to sound concrete.
Correcting level variation where finishes and floor heights change within a building.
Damp proof membrane where a substrate fails moisture testing, as a standalone package.
Unknown substrates surveyed, prepared and overlaid with neighbours still trading.
Dust-controlled finishes with static dissipation where the process genuinely needs it.
Coved, falled systems and abrasion resistant floors in smaller-format premises.
We work across Pendle regularly, from Lomeshaye Industrial Estate and the Brierfield mill corridor through to the Riverside blocks, Barrowford Road, the Colne Road corridor and the Scotland Road trade premises. We are Cheshire based, so a survey usually happens within days and there is no mobilisation charge for attending.
Not on this stock, and anyone who does is guessing. Mill floors here carry historic screeds, bitumen, adhesive residues and patch repairs, and what is underneath decides what will bond. BS 8204-6 requires a sound, clean, prepared base, and the only way to establish that is to test it.
Very possibly, and it is a test result rather than an assumption. Most of this stock predates effective membranes, so relative humidity is measured inside the concrete before anything is priced. Where the reading fails, a surface DPM is supplied as its own package so you can see the cost.
It is the normal condition here rather than an obstacle. Work is taken bay by bay or over a weekend, with dust, noise and odour control agreed in advance because the yard and corridor are shared. Services running at floor level are identified at survey rather than found during preparation.
It gets more than one answer. Finishes and levels commonly vary between bays in a mill, so applying one specification across the whole floor is usually wrong. We survey each area and price levelling separately where it is needed.
From £8 per square metre for a floor seal up to £45 for MMA, inclusive of preparation, labour and materials. Most work here sits in the lower half, with preparation and any membrane priced separately. The full table by system is on the cost page.
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Tell us what is on the floor now, who else is in the building and when access is possible. We attend, test the substrate, and put a written specification and a fixed price in front of you at no cost.
