Can a kitchen floor be replaced without closing the venue?

Usually, yes, by working overnight between service and handing the kitchen back each morning. It needs rapid-set systems and a realistic zoning plan, and we will tell you honestly if the area is too large to split.

Why does the junction have to be coved?

Because a square internal corner traps soil and water that cleaning cannot reach, and it is the detail an environmental health officer checks first. Coving turns the junction into a surface that wash-down actually clears.

Is epoxy grout necessary in a commercial kitchen?

In the wash-up and prep zones it is worth every cent, because cement-based grout breaks down under daily chemical cleaning. In dry storage areas a good cement-based grout is fine. We price the floor by zone rather than by blanket rule.

Commercial sector

Commercial kitchen tiling

Impervious, coved and correctly graded surfaces that pass a food-premises inspection and survive daily hot wash-down.

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Coving and falls: Set out to the gully, not the door
Works staged: Overnight for trading venues
Grout selection: Rated for the cleaning regime

The package

A commercial kitchen floor is assessed by an environmental health officer, not by a designer. The requirements are consistent: surfaces that are impervious, smooth enough to clean and hard enough not to break down, junctions that are coved rather than square, and a floor that drains to the gully instead of holding water under the bench.

Everything else follows from daily hot wash-down and chemical cleaning. Grout is chemical-resistant where the brief allows it, falls are set in the screed rather than hoped for, and junctions with plinths, kick rails and trapped gullies are detailed before the joinery arrives. Get the drainage wrong and the kitchen is still wet at midnight.

Impervious and cleanable surfaces

Fully vitrified porcelain with low water absorption, laid with full adhesive coverage so there are no voids under a floor that gets hot water poured on it every night.

Coved junctions at every wall

Floor-to-wall junctions are coved so the wash-down runs out of the corner instead of sitting in it. Square junctions are where a food-premises inspection usually finds its first problem.

Falls that reach the gully

Grades are set in the screed and water-tested before the membrane, including under benches and around trapped gullies. A kitchen floor that ponds is a slip hazard and a cleaning failure at the same time.

Chemical and thermal resistance

Daily cleaning agents and hot wash-down attack cement-based grout. Where the specification allows it we use an epoxy or chemical-resistant grout, and we detail movement joints for the thermal cycling a kitchen floor goes through.

Scope we carry

Kitchen, servery, prep and cool-store floors in fully vitrified porcelain
Coved floor-to-wall junction detailing
Screed falls to trapped gullies and channel drains, water-tested
Waterproof membrane beneath the tiled floor
Wall tiling to splash zones, prep areas and wash-up
Chemical-resistant epoxy grouting where specified
Plinth, kick-rail and equipment-base detailing
Overnight and staged installation for trading venues

Compliance

AS/NZS 3740Waterproofing beneath kitchen and wash-down floors.
AS/NZS 4586Slip resistance classification for wet and greasy kitchen floors.
AS 3958.1Full adhesive coverage and movement joints under thermal cycling.
NZBC E3Internal moisture, falls to gully and junction detailing.

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On site

Kitchen brigade working a service in a commercial kitchen

Operator preparing and cleaning a concrete slab before tiling

Notched adhesive bed and a levelling spacer beside a large-format tile

Part-tiled wall with the next course set out and levelled

Retail fit-outShort programmes inside trading centres, where the handover date is fixed by a lease and the set-out is judged from the mall floor.Sector detail

Healthcare & hospitalCleanable surfaces, coved junctions and sequencing that respects infection control and a ward that never actually closes.Sector detail

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Commercial kitchens tiling, answered

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