Food Grade Flooring in Sydney

A seamless, non-porous floor system suitable for food production and preparation areas. It's coved up the wall to remove the floor-to-wall junction, laid to falls towards drains, resistant to chemicals and thermal shock, and finished to a specified slip classification. Depending on washdown conditions it's built in either epoxy or polyurethane cement.

It depends on the washdown. PU cement handles hot water, steam cleaning and thermal shock better than epoxy, which can debond under repeated temperature swings. Where conditions are gentler an epoxy system is the more economical choice. We specify based on how the space actually runs.

The floor-to-wall junction is where product, moisture and cleaning residue collect, and where cracks form as the two surfaces move. Coving carries the floor up the wall in a continuous radius so there's no joint to harbour bacteria and the surface cleans down in a single pass. It's one of the first details an auditor checks.

A correctly specified and installed system — seamless, coved, falling to drains, cleanable and slip resistant — is designed to satisfy the flooring elements of HACCP, AQIS, Food Safe, DPI and BRC audits. Certification applies to your facility and processes as a whole rather than to the floor alone, but the floor is a component auditors examine closely.

Price depends on the system, the build thickness, coving, drainage detailing, slab condition and how much preparation is needed. PU cement systems cost more than epoxy but last longer under washdown. In Sydney, access moves the number as much as the floor does — a ground-floor food manufacturing unit prices differently to a hotel kitchen several levels up with one service lift and a loading dock booking.

Usually in stages or during a shutdown. Most food grade work runs over weekends, in planned shutdown windows, or zone by zone with the area isolated. Sydney hotel and hospital kitchens rarely close at all, so the work is normally staged overnight across several visits rather than done in one hit. Tell us the window you have and we'll tell you what fits it.

Cure times vary by system and temperature. Most take foot traffic before washdown or chemical exposure, and we'll give you the schedule for your specified system before works start so the shutdown can be planned properly.

Usually. Failing systems have to come off rather than be coated over — see floor covering removal. We assess what caused the failure first, since a debonded floor is often a preparation or specification problem that will simply repeat.