Many eateries in Orinda have a concrete surface for their kitchen floors. Some restaurateurs have decided to renovate their kitchens by pulling out their vinyl tiles or flooring to expose the concrete and install epoxy coats instead. In fact, some eateries currently being built or remodeled use epoxy flooring for their kitchens as the first choice. So, here is a list of ordinary inquiries about epoxy topcoats in the kitchen and their answers.
Rough Concrete Underfoot?
The comparison between a concrete floor and other flooring types shows only slight differences regarding comfort in kitchens. Carpet is comfortable but you are certainly not installing carpet in a kitchen! Vinyl may appear slightly less demanding, but the contrast is ultimately only slight, and endurance is a problem. Cork is one of the ideal surfaces for comfort but has major issues with maintenance. The good news is that epoxy flooring can be designed with a feeling of give by using specific forms of polyurethane and varying the height of the material. If you use rubber runners in your kitchen anyway, the selection of flooring ideally should be determined by other factors.
Kitchen Maintenance
Epoxy flooring has no joints or seams, so there’s no place for old food, bacteria, dirt, hair, or other contaminants to get trapped. There’s no grout to scrub and clean. Typically, the only cleaning and maintenance that epoxy floors need is a mop cleaning. In addition, choosing the add-on option of coved flooring extends the durability of epoxy coats up the walls of your kitchen from a matter of inches to more than a foot, protecting your floors and walls from spills and scrapes with delivery dollies and carts.
Are Epoxy Floors Okay for Work?
The topcoat on any concrete floor can be customized to upgrade the traction. Certainly, a high gloss concrete floor like you see in an office building or retail store may be slick and unsafe when wet, but in kitchens we don’t lay down the same coatings as we use in locations that prioritize looks over traction. That doesn’t mean that your floor looks commercial or industrial or feels like it’s produced with grit. The science behind epoxy sealers is far beyond that and offers us many beautiful methods of escaping slick floors that are permitted by experienced building designers.
Ask for Epoxy Flooring in Your Kitchen
Concrete is never bland when you request West Coast Epoxy to colorize your kitchen floors. For a secure and practical work kitchen color-stained concrete or epoxy floors can cover your specifications with an appealing style that competes very well with other surfaces. If you have other questions about epoxy in the kitchen, ask West Coast Epoxy for more information. We look forward to assisting you find out the advantages of concrete coatings in industrial kitchens.
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