Resin floors in the home

[marcanthony]

Resin floors, like the ones found in shops and warehouses. I think this will give the finish i am looking for, as i am looking for a pure white high gloss seamless floor. There are lots of websites for industrial resin floors but nothing to suggest this may be done in a private residence.

Has anyone heard of a way this can be done in my home? but i have wooden floors, so this may not be possible.

Or can someone suggest a way i can get this effect i talk of.

It needs to be pure white, it needs to be seamless and glossy. I also need to have it heated with underfloor heating.

Any ideas

Marc

 

[Scrit]

If you mean the polyurethane floors used in hospitals, etc then I didn't think they were particularly high gloss (anything designed to carry high traffic wouldn't be either white or high gloss IMHO). The glossy finishes you see in shops is obtained by coating vinyl, polyurethane or even linoleum tile/roll with a special polish then building a coat of polish using a buffing machine (the sort of thing you see in hospitals, public buildings, etc) repeatedly to keep them that way. Talk to a industrial janotorial supply company for ideas on what to use. Perhaps you could try Marmoleum by Forbo as a flooring, although the installers of that sort of flooring generally aren't interested in domestic installation and the specialised equipment precludes DIY fitting. Alternatrively Sherwin-Williams in the USA make a sort of flooring epoxy for airports, etc. BTW all this sort of commercial stuff costs a fortune.

Scrit

 

[breezer]

There are lots of websites for industrial resin floors but nothing to suggest this may be done in a private residence.

probably because you can't / won't want to

warehouses / shops have one thing in common, concrete floors, i should guess a wooden floor will flex too much.

You may be able to do as you should for tiles, screw down plywood over the entire floor, but i should also gues you wouldn't want to becuse of cost of the floor material, as scrit said

all this sort of commercial stuff costs a fortune

 

[2scoops0406]

I doubt you could / would want to do this on a wooden floor. I believe that Tr@vis Perkins do a garage floor resin flooring system. I don know how much it costs, but as you've already found out these systems aren't cheap. I still don't think a wooden floor will be suitable though. How about white shiny vinyl instead ?

 

[breezer]

garage floor = concrete, nice and non flexible, i guess that answers the question

 

[Scrit]

I still don't think a wooden floor will be suitable though. How about white shiny vinyl instead ?

That's why there are systems like Forbo Marmoleum in older shops. But for anything shiny and white to work you'd beed an absolutely flat floor beneath the covering as every imperfection and movement would telegraph. I know, what about white marble?

Scrit

 

[wilgartw]

i am also interested in this in my kitchen. it has a concrete floor, and will level it first. anyone know anyone in the UK who can do this.

 

[Scrit]

Why this urge towards the absolutely and completely unusable? Kitchens are high-traffic working rooms and any horizontal surface with a very high gloss will be extremely high maintainance! People ask for high gloss work tops, so we put them in - normally after warning the customer that they mark like crazy, get scratched to bits in no time and that they are no good at all if you actually use a kitchen - but still some customers persist. Talking with others in the trade it seems that a lot of these installations are "boomerangs" - because the tiler scratches the tops before they are even used, because the sparkie does, because they look dreadful after 6 months, you name it. They are nothing but grief. Sorry to put the damper on this, but a high gloss white floor in a kitchen seems to be similarly a complete and utter waste of time, money and effort....... The nearest you'll probably get is white ceramic tiles or white marble (which will mark in time as it's soft)

Scrit

 

[Deleted member 174758]

If you are talking about aspartic resin flooring, I've prepped for them a few times on timber sub-floors - installation of the finished floors is done by specialists, so I don't know if it is DIYable. One thing, though, they are not truly self-levelling, as they are generally laid only a few millimetres thick (otherwise it would cost a fortune to install them), so the surface beneath needs cracks and crevices filling, screw heads sunk under and filled, and genetzlly filling snd smoothing for thd best finish. They will normally take very heavy traffic, but being solvent-based they are very smelly to install and require forced ventilation during the installation. You'd need to check, but normally foot traffic is forbidden for up to 48 hours after installation (however, once cured you can drive an FLT across them).

The last one we prepped for was a council headquarters in a building where we'd installed the joinery package and the council wanted a seemless floor for their shiny new offices. Looked good when it was done