Commercial Kitchen Flooring in Duluth, GA

Looking for commercial kitchen flooring in Duluth, GA? ACC Facility Services installs seamless, slip resistant kitchen floors for restaurants, hotel kitchens, bakeries and food service along the Pleasant Hill corridor and around downtown Duluth. A kitchen floor has to pass inspection, stay safe when it is wet, and survive being cleaned aggressively every single night. Every project starts with a free on-site survey. Call (404) 480-0962.

Why quarry tile keeps failing in Duluth kitchens

• Seamless urethane cement, with no grout lines to wash out and harbor bacteria
• Integral coving up the wall and around equipment plinths and drains
• Textured for grip when the floor is wet with water, grease and oil
• Takes boiling washdown, dropped pans and thermal shock from fryers and ovens
• Falls to drain corrected as the floor is laid, so water stops ponding
• Installed overnight or across a closure so you lose as little service as possible

What a working kitchen floor is up against

A commercial kitchen is a wet, hot, greasy room that gets cleaned with caustic chemicals every night, and most of the floors we replace in Duluth fail in exactly the same way. Quarry tile does not fail in the tile, it fails in the grout. The joints wash out, water gets underneath, tiles start to lift, and that failed grout line becomes the thing your inspector points at. Sheet vinyl fails at the welded seams and at the coving. Standard epoxy softens under hot oil and lifts where a fryer station puts thermal shock through the slab. On top of all that, most kitchens carry a drainage problem nobody fixed at fit-out, so water sits in low spots and the floor is permanently wet. We deal with the falls, the coving and the surface as one job, because fixing only the surface leaves you with the same floor again in three years.

Kitchen floor systems and how we choose between them

The right build depends on what actually happens in each area of the kitchen:

• Urethane cement: the standard for cook lines, dish areas and anywhere with heat and heavy washdown. It takes boiling water, hot oil and thermal shock, and it can be laid thick enough to reprofile the falls to your drain.
• Quartz broadcast epoxy: a good fit for prep areas, walk-in surrounds and back of house, where slip resistance and cleanability matter but extreme heat does not.
• Coving and drainage detail: coving carried up the wall and around every plinth and drain, so there is no right angle for grease and water to collect in and nothing for a mop to miss.

What a kitchen floor costs, and what drives the number

Kitchen floors are priced on area, the system specified and how much has to come out before we start, so every Duluth kitchen is surveyed and quoted individually and for free. The biggest single variable is what is already down. Lifting failed quarry tile and its bed is real demolition, and it costs more than working over a sound concrete slab. The second is drainage. If the falls are wrong and water is ponding, correcting them while the floor is laid adds material, but it is the difference between solving the problem and repeating it. Coving, drain detailing and any equipment lifting are itemized separately so you can see what each part is costing you.

How we replace a kitchen floor between services

1. Free on-site survey. Call (404) 480-0962 or request one online. We look at the existing floor, check the falls and drains, and confirm what has to come out.
2. Closure window agreed. We plan the work around your service, usually overnight or across a scheduled closure, and confirm exactly when the kitchen is back.
3. Strip out and preparation. Failed tile, vinyl or coating comes up, the slab is ground back to sound concrete, and the drains are prepared.
4. Falls, coving and system build. Falls to drain are corrected, coving is formed at walls and plinths, then the specified system is laid seamless across the floor.
5. Cure, clean and handover. Fast cure materials let most kitchens reopen the next morning, and we hand over with the floor cleaned and the drains running properly.

Kitchen flooring in Duluth: what restaurant owners ask

How much does commercial kitchen flooring cost in Duluth?

It depends on the area, the system specified and how much has to be removed first, so every kitchen is surveyed and quoted for free. Lifting failed quarry tile and its bed is genuine demolition and costs more than working over a sound slab. Correcting drainage falls adds material but stops you repeating the same problem in three years. Coving, drain detailing and equipment lifting are itemized separately, so nothing is buried inside one number.

How long will my kitchen be closed?

Usually one overnight closure for a straightforward replacement, and two to three days where tile has to come up and falls need correcting. We work nights and scheduled closures and use fast cure materials, so most kitchens are back in service the following morning. You get the closure window and the exact return to service time in writing before we start, because a lost day of service costs more than the floor does.

Will the floor pass a health inspection?

That is exactly what the specification is for. The systems we install are seamless and non-porous with no grout lines, and coving is carried up the wall and around plinths and drains so there is no right angle to trap grease. An inspector is looking for a surface that is cleanable, intact and coved, and that is precisely what these builds deliver. We supply the manufacturer documentation for your records.

Can you fix water ponding on our kitchen floor?

Yes, and it is worth doing at the same time as the floor. Ponding is almost always a falls problem left over from the original fit-out rather than a fault in the drain. Urethane cement can be laid thick enough to reprofile the floor so it genuinely runs to the drain, and we do that as part of the install rather than as a separate exercise. If the drain itself is set too high, we will tell you at the survey.

Other flooring we install for Duluth businesses

• Concrete Floor Polishing in Duluth, GA
• Epoxy Floors in Duluth, GA
• Epoxy Garage Floors in Duluth, GA
• All service areas across Metro Atlanta

Want the technical detail on the systems themselves? See our quartz epoxy floor and concrete cleaning pages. We also fit out commercial floors in nearby Norcross, Buford, and Gainesville.

Get your free Duluth kitchen floor survey

Call (404) 480-0962 or fill out the quote form below. We will look at your falls, your drains and whatever is already down, then give you an itemized quote and a firm closure window.