Delivered by Commercial Floors London
Commercial Flooring
Flooring is a specialism, so the group runs it as its own company rather than as a line on a maintenance contract.
What this covers
Anything with a floor: commercial interior flooring, entrance matting, and sports and recreational surfacing. Supply and fit, subfloor preparation, and repair or replacement of failed floors.
For maintenance clients this most often comes up as a consequence of something else: a leak that has lifted a floor, a worn surface that has become a slip risk, or a changing room that has been repainted so many times it needs finishing properly.
Safety flooring for wet areas is the job the maintenance side asks for most. Changing rooms, shower areas, commercial kitchens and plant rooms need a surface with measured slip resistance, coved up the wall and sealed at the edges so water cannot get underneath. A painted concrete floor that is redone every couple of years is a cycle worth breaking, and the flooring team specifies the surface to the use of the room rather than to a catalogue.
Luxury vinyl tile, carpet tile and sheet vinyl cover most office, retail and corridor floors. Carpet tile and LVT are chosen for occupied buildings because they can be lifted and replaced in sections, which matters when a leak, a desk move or a worn traffic lane affects one area and not the rest. Sheet vinyl suits corridors, back-of-house and healthcare-style areas where a seamless, cleanable surface matters more than the look.
Resin and screed systems go where the floor is worked hardest: warehouses, workshops, loading areas, kitchens and plant rooms. Resin is specified by the load, the chemicals and the cleaning regime the floor will meet, and the screed underneath is where most resin failures actually start, which is why the team treats the subfloor as part of the job rather than someone else's problem.
Wood floor sanding, restoration and parquet work is a separate skill with its own machines. The group keeps it inside the flooring company rather than treating it as decoration, because a sanded and refinished floor in a listed office, a hall or a club room is cheaper and better than replacing it, provided it is done by people who do that and nothing else.
Sports hall, court and playground surfacing is the overlap with the group's leisure work: sprung floors, court markings, multi-use games areas and the wet-pour surfaces under play equipment. These are specified to the sport and the governing body's requirements, and programmed for the close season alongside any maintenance work on the same site.
Entrance matting is the least glamorous part of a floor and the one that decides how long the rest of it lasts. A properly specified matting system, recessed, sized to the footfall and matched to the soil and water the entrance actually sees, stops the first five metres of floor being replaced years before the rest. The flooring team has specified and tendered entrance matting for a car dealership, where the forecourt traffic makes the entrance the hardest-worked floor in the building.
Subfloor preparation, levelling and moisture testing come before every installation. A new floor laid on a damp or uneven slab fails, and the failure is blamed on the product. Moisture testing before fitting, and a levelling compound where the slab needs it, are how the flooring company avoids being called back.
- Safety vinyl and slip-resistant flooring for wet areas
- Luxury vinyl tile, carpet tile and sheet vinyl
- Resin and screed systems
- Wood floor sanding, restoration and parquet work
- Sports hall, court and playground surfacing
- Entrance matting systems
- Subfloor preparation, levelling and moisture testing
Who runs it
Commercial Floors London is the group's flooring company and a trading style of Guardian Management Group Ltd. Same group, same accountability, but a dedicated team, dedicated fitters and a site built entirely around flooring, which is where the detail you need actually lives.
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Common questions
Questions we get asked.
Do you do wood floor sanding as well as vinyl?
Yes. Wood floor sanding, restoration and parquet repair sit inside Commercial Floors London alongside vinyl, carpet tile and resin. It is a different skill with its own machines, which is why it is kept with the flooring company rather than treated as part of decorating.
Can you match an existing floor after a leak?
Often, yes. Carpet tile and LVT are chosen for occupied buildings partly because sections can be lifted and replaced. Whether a match is possible depends on whether the product is still made and how much the existing floor has faded; where it is not, the team will say so and propose a sensible boundary for a new area rather than a patch that shows.
Why does the subfloor need moisture testing?
Because a new floor laid on a damp slab lifts, bubbles or delaminates, and the failure gets blamed on the product. Testing the slab before fitting, and using a damp-proof membrane or a levelling compound where it needs one, is what stops the flooring company being called back.
Can flooring be fitted while the building is in use?
Usually, by phasing and by working out of hours. Offices are done floor by floor or zone by zone in the evenings and at weekends, shops overnight, and sports facilities in the close season, with the programme agreed before the first tile is lifted.
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