Ultra Tough Floor Material ???

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#1

I work at a brewpub and my boss needs to find the best (and least expensive) material to coat the floor in the cooler. It is concrete and he used the epoxy garage floor stuff awhile ago. That has chipped away and now there are some small craters in the concrete.

He was thinking of truck bed liner. I thought that would be sweet, but I don’t know if that would stick to concrete or not. We like the properties of a bed liner - slip resistant, crack resistant, etc…

Tile is not good, because we haul (and drop) barrels of beer all the time and the tile would crack.

We’d need to fill in the craters with some sort of material, first. Then put a protective coating over that.

So since we all have a good grasp of epoxies and materials like the such, I thought I’d bounce this of y’all and see if you had any sweet suggestions for us.

Thanks for any tips

#2

Drop beer on it, for shame…:smiley:

The floor would have to be at room temp and not frozen for anything to work and adhere.

Try a local Linex company and maybe they can spray up some floor panel for you to place in there for the protection and should also insulate the freezer too!

#3

I think diamond plate might be the best and easiest way to go.

#4

Might be spendy, but also look into the thick diamond punched out screen too?

#5

Are you talking about the expanded metal?

What about just plywood and then glassing it like a boat deck?

#6

Yes.

The wood and resin would be slippery unless you add sand to the top resin coating and you will also need some fiberglass to hold the resin together or might just get chipped off when a keg gets dropped…

What about a dense fatige rubber mats? Or those rubber tiles that snap together?

#7

No poop, after posting about the rubber flooring, I just saw a Bud Light commercial with rubber flooring and them bouncing the glass bottles off the floor to each others! No S#$T!:eek:

#8

Duh — I’ve been considering RaceDeck flooring for ME for the last 4 years. And I totally forgot about it until you mentioned it. I think we might just fill in the craters with some sort of patch material and go with that.

Thanks all

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