01 · Project overview

What is this project?

Cheese Factory Flooring in Menorca over Old Tiles, 160 square metres in 2024. España – Baleares. The products on the job are EP Coat 100. The Balearic sun and the salt in the air are the two things a finish has to live with, every season.

In December 2024, POLIUREA BALEAR SL covered about 160 m² of old tiles.

The system was Rayston Floor EP 20 with an anti-slip build-up.

Over time, the tiles had stained and the joints had opened.

Krypton Chemical supplies the resin system. The duty is ordinary and strict: keep water, wear and weather on the right side of the structure, and do it in the details as well as in the open field.

ProjectCheese Factory Flooring in Menorca over Old Tiles
PlaceEspaña – Baleares
Area160 m²
Year2024
LineFlooring
ProductsEP Coat 100

02 · The challenge

What did this structure ask of the system?

Cheese Factory Flooring in Menorca over Old Tiles is a working floor. Wheels, washing water and the daily grit of a building all sit on the same film. A coating that only looks right on the day it is laid will map every crack in the slab within a season.

The concrete has to be opened, not painted over. Laitance, oil and old dust are how resin floors lose their bond, and they lose it in the traffic lines first. Joints and drains are details, not the edge of the job. Across 160 square metres, a thin spot is not a small repair.

Stained old tile floor before renovation, Menorca cheese factory
Stained old tile floor before renovation, Menorca cheese factory

03 · The solution

Which system was trusted here?

The system trusted here is the one named for the job: EP Coat 100. It is chosen because it matches the substrate and the exposure, not because every building wants the same can.

A floor system is a stack. Primer for the bond, body for the thickness, seal for the face. Skipping the primer to save a day is how the floor comes back up on the tyres.

04 · Application

How is the system built?

On this floor the sequence follows the products named for the job: EP Coat 100. The slab is ground or blasted, the dust is lifted, and cracks are filled before the first resin. A primer is what locks the system into the pores. The body coat takes the wear. The seal is the face people walk on, and it is the layer that has to keep its colour.

Each coat has to be down at the thickness that product is designed for, including at the drains and the joints. A floor that is thick in the middle and starved at the edge will fail at the edge. Traffic waits until the seal has cured. Washing water waits longer than footsteps.

On Cheese Factory Flooring in Menorca over Old Tiles the floor is not a decorative coat. It is the surface the building works on. Preparation decides it. Oil, laitance and a closed power-floated face will take a primer for a week and then let it go. The mechanical opening of the pores is part of the system, not a favour the applicator adds if there is time.

Joints move. A resin that is rigid across a joint will crack there, and the crack fills with wash water. The joint is either honoured, with a flexible seal of the right width, or the floor design accepts a cut. Drains are turned into the floor, not left as a ring of mastic after the last coat. Colour goes in the seal coat so a repair later can be matched, and so daylight and cleaning chemicals meet a film that was chosen for that, not the structural coat underneath.

Cure is part of the programme. Foot traffic, pallet trucks and the first wash are three different dates. Opening a floor early because the building is in a hurry is how a good system gets a bad name. The data sheet of each named product sets those dates. This page does not invent a shorter one for the sake of the story.

05 · Results

What does a job like this stand behind?

Cheese Factory Flooring in Menorca over Old Tiles has one standard. The coating is still doing its job after the building is back in use, at the details as well as in the middle. The area on this job is 160 square metres.

Figures for cure, thickness and strength, where they are given, come from the product data sheets. They are not a test cut out of this building.

What this asks of Cheese Factory Flooring in Menorca over Old Tiles is workmanship at the difficult line. The open field is the easy part of a resin job. Outlets, edges, penetrations and changes of plane are where thickness goes missing, and where water or wear finds the gap. The same products and the same care belong there, and the cure is allowed to finish before the building goes back into use. That is the difference between a coating that was simply applied and a system that stays in service.

06 · Products

Products on this job

EP Coat 100

Named on this project. The data sheet carries the application window and the typical figures.

07 · FAQ

Frequently asked questions

Where is this project?

Cheese Factory Flooring in Menorca over Old Tiles. España – Baleares

When was the work done?

2024.

Which products were used?

EP Coat 100.

Why does the concrete preparation matter?

Resin sticks to a clean, open slab. It does not stick to laitance or oil. The bond fails in the wheel tracks first.

When can the floor take traffic?

Foot traffic waits until the seal has cured. Wheels and wash-down wait longer. The exact window is the one in each product’s data sheet.

08 · Photos

On site

Cheese factory flooring in Menorca: finished glossy grey epoxy floor
Cheese factory flooring in Menorca: finished glossy grey epoxy floor
Stained old tile floor before renovation, Menorca cheese factory
Stained old tile floor before renovation, Menorca cheese factory
Tecnocem patch over old tiles at a floor drain, Ciutadella
Tecnocem patch over old tiles at a floor drain, Ciutadella
Wet grey EP Coat 100 spreading over old tiles, Menorca
Wet grey EP Coat 100 spreading over old tiles, Menorca
Glossy grey epoxy floor along a corridor, Menorca dairy
Glossy grey epoxy floor along a corridor, Menorca dairy
Grey floor beside a stainless drain channel in the dairy, Ciutadella
Grey floor beside a stainless drain channel in the dairy, Ciutadella
Cheese vats over the renewed grey floor, Ciutadella
Cheese vats over the renewed grey floor, Ciutadella
Light grey epoxy floor in a production room, Menorca
Light grey epoxy floor in a production room, Menorca
Coated floor with drain lines along the wall, Ciutadella
Coated floor with drain lines along the wall, Ciutadella
Production area with vats on the finished floor, Menorca
Production area with vats on the finished floor, Menorca
Wide view of the vat line over the new floor, Ciutadella
Wide view of the vat line over the new floor, Ciutadella
Clean grey floor and wall base in a production room, Menorca
Clean grey floor and wall base in a production room, Menorca
Coated floor running towards a bright doorway, Ciutadella
Coated floor running towards a bright doorway, Ciutadella
Old tiles with a trolley before works, Ciutadella
Old tiles with a trolley before works, Ciutadella
Coated floor along a drain line, close view, Menorca
Coated floor along a drain line, close view, Menorca
Drain grate with preparation layer on old tiles, Ciutadella
Drain grate with preparation layer on old tiles, Ciutadella
Finished glossy grey floor in the cheese factory, Menorca
Finished glossy grey floor in the cheese factory, Menorca
Edge of the grey coat over the old tiles, Ciutadella
Edge of the grey coat over the old tiles, Ciutadella
Cheese production back under way on the new floor, Menorca
Cheese production back under way on the new floor, Menorca

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