Urethane Cement Floors for Food and Beverage Plants in Riverside, CA

Request a bid with your room sizes, wash temperatures and the shutdown windows you can give us.

Why Food Plants Use Urethane Cement Instead of Epoxy

Urethane cement survives hot washdowns that crack ordinary epoxy, because it expands and contracts with heat at close to the same rate as the concrete under it. Thermal shock is stress from a sudden temperature change: when a coating and its slab expand at different rates, the strain fractures the weaker layer. That is why Oscar's washdown and prep room in an Eastvale food distribution building kept failing until the system changed.

One urethane cement data sheet lists a service range of minus 40 F to 248 F and steam cleaning at 3/16 to 1/4 inch, and a coatings contractor describes a 35 F floor washed with 185 F water as the job it was developed for.

Drains, Slope and Cove Base

The drain, the slope and the coved edge belong to the floor system itself, a lesson Elaine learned from a restaurant kitchen with failing quarry tile, broken grout and a standing-water corner by the dish pit. Standing water by a drain is where a food plant floor fails first, so we correct slope to the drains, carry the urethane cement down into the drain bodies, and run an integral cove base up the wall so there is no sharp wall-floor joint to hold residue. Existing expansion joints are carried through the new floor, as the data sheet requires, whether the plant sits in Norco, Woodcrest or El Sobrante.

Food plant floors in Riverside are typically budgeted by room or section, with an estimated $5,500 to $14,000 for each 1,000 to 2,000 sq ft section, and cove base length, drain work and build thickness move the number most. A single washdown and prep room of about 1,500 sq ft with cove and drains typically lands at an estimated $9,400 to $13,600, which is where Oscar's room in Eastvale came in.

Drain rework and slope correction are priced after the room survey, because no two rooms in a Riverside or Eastvale plant drain the same way.

These room figures are budgetary estimates for Riverside and are subject to change. Your written quote, confirmed on bid from the floor plan, the wash temperatures and the slab survey, sets the final price and the shutdown schedule, and it depends on drain work, cove length and the build each room needs.

Oscar's washdown and prep room, about 1,500 sq ft, in a food distribution building now takes daily hot washdowns without lifting at the drains. The old floor was a washdown prep room where epoxy kept failing under hot water and sanitizer. We recommended urethane cement built for thermal shock, with a coved base for the sanitation crew, using urethane cement slurry, integral cove, broadcast texture. The room came in at an estimated $9,400 to $13,600 over an estimated 3 to 5 days, scheduled into the plant's shutdown so the rest of the building kept running.

Scheduling Around Production Shutdowns

Shutdown windows set the schedule, so rooms are coated in the order the plant releases them, a sequence we have run for 12 years. Each room typically takes an estimated 3 to 5 days including cure, and we check slab temperature, humidity and dew point before the pour because heat shortens working time. Return-to-service times come from the data sheet at your room temperature and are written per room before the plant commits a shutdown.

Food Plant Service Areas in the Inland Empire

We bid food, beverage and cold storage floors across a 45-mile radius from Riverside, an area with a long history of citrus packing, dairies and winemaking. Eastvale's distribution buildings, Norco and Woodcrest processors, and plants toward Claremont, Diamond Bar and Yorba Linda all sit inside that radius, and owners in Villa Park and North Tustin reach us for their Inland facilities.

Request a Bid for Your Food Plant Floor in Riverside

Request a bid with your room sizes, wash and freezer temperatures and shutdown calendar anywhere in our 45-mile radius, and we will schedule the room survey.