Brewery floor refurb - Help!

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Hello,

A quick bit of advice needed please:

We are setting up a meadery in South Wales and have taken the space over from a brewery - their floor was terrible and had low spots and water pooling, which was bad from a food hygiene perspective. The paint was also flaking up so we decided to start from scratch. The area is 9x9m (81sqm) and there is a drain channel 3m away from the wall which we want to squeegee water into.

We wanted to level the floor and apply an epoxy resin cover and new drains.

We hired a scrabbler and took the top layer of paint off, swept and hoovered and applied a primer in a 1/3 ratio for the self leveler
Primer: https://www.screwfix.com/p/mapei-primer-g-5kg/5309p?_requestid=611890

This dried and then we applied this self-leveling compound: https://www.screwfix.com/p/mapei-ultraplan-3240-self-levelling-compound-25kg/4959f

I then called up the supplier of the epoxy resin and they called the manufacturer of the self-leveling compound. They were told the leveling compound we had used was only suitable for laying tiles onto, not painting or epoxying as it is not strong enough.

We need to use this Expoxy floor so have no choice other than ripping up the new self-leveling we just laid.

I called up another Epoxy retailer and they said it would be fine to use their stuff with a penetrating primer which will soak into the self-leveling and bind it together. This is the package they suggested: https://www.resincoat.co.uk/en/high-build-epoxy/424-triple-garage-floor-paint-bundle.html

Can anyone tell me if this will work or is there going to be a problem with not using the correct self-leveling compound? What are the potential problems?

What would you do?

Thanks
 
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This was the old floor, pretty gross.
 

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Freshly ground and cleaned. Applying primer for self leveling.
 

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Applying self leveling
 

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Self leveling complete, drying.
 

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