Product Guide

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REME Product Guide

Synthetic resin flooring is classified into eight specific types, each having their own particular performance characteristics:

BS 8204-6Section 6.2 classifies the types, varying in thickness and surface finish as follows:

Type 1 

Floor Seal

  • Applied in two or more coats. Generally, a solvent or waterborne.
  • Light Duty.
  • Up to 150 µm thickness.

Type 2

Floor Coating

  • Applied in two or more coats.  Generally solvent free.
  • Light Duty / Medium Duty.
  • Between 150 µm to 300 µm thickness.

Type 3

High Build Floor Coating

  • Applied in two or more coats.  Generally solvent free.
  • Medium Duty.
  • Between 300 µm to 1000 µm thickness.

Type 4

Multi-Layer Flooring

  • Aggregate dressed systems based on multiple layers of floor coatings or flow-applied floorings, often described as ‘sandwich’ systems.
  • Medium Duty / Heavy Duty.
  • 2mm thickness.

Type 4

Multi-Layer Flooring

  • Often referred to as ‘self-smoothing’ or ‘self-levelling’ flooring and has a smooth surface.
  • Medium Duty / Heavy Duty.
  • 2mm to 3mm thickness.

Type 6

Resin Screed Flooring

  • Trowel-finished, heavily filled systems, generally incorporating a surface seal coat to minimise porosity.
  • Medium Duty / Heavy Duty.
  • > 4mm thickness.
Type 7

Heavy Duty Flowable Flooring

  • Has a smooth surface.
  • Heavy Duty / Very Heavy Duty.
  • 4mm to 6mm thickness.
Type 8

Heavy Duty Resin Flooring

  • Trowel-finished, aggregate filled systems effectively
    impervious throughout their thickness.
  • Very Heavy Duty.
  • > 6mm thickness.
Light Duty
Light foot traffic, occasional rubber tyred vehicles.
Medium Duty
Regular foot traffic, frequent fork lift truck traffic, occasional hard plastic-wheeled trolleys.
Heavy Duty
Constant fork lift truck traffic, hard plastic-wheeld trolleys, some impact.
Very Heavy Duty 
Severe heavily loaded traffic and impact.