Retail & hospitality

Planned around trading hours.

LVT front of house and slip-resistant safety flooring behind it, installed overnight or in phases so you keep trading.

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Karndean Art Select herringbone running cleanly around the timber-panelled bar counter at The Talbot, Belbroughton

What retail and hospitality work demands.

Every closed day costs revenue

The floor has to change while the doors stay open, so it goes down out of hours or one area at a time.

Front of house has to look exceptional

Patterns, borders and trims are set out to the design, so the floor reads as part of the interior.

Kitchens need proven slip resistance

Bar backs and kitchens are wet all shift, so the floor needs a tested wet slip rating and must clean easily.

Curved steps in dark timber-effect Amtico, edged in brass trim, at Gaucho Liverpool

From banking hall to village pub.

At Gaucho Liverpool we laid Amtico parquet, brass-trimmed curved steps and Brintons and Ege carpets in a former banking hall. At The Talbot, Belbroughton it was Karndean herringbone LVT in the bar, a patterned Calderdale carpet in the restaurant and Altro safety flooring behind the bar, each detailed to meet the next cleanly.

At John Lewis on Oxford Street we laid the herringbone LVT through the dining areas and the Altro safety vinyl in the back-of-house kitchen for Platter, Benugo's café in the store, working for Interior Service.

Across estates we work for Mitchells & Butlers brands (Miller & Carter, Harvester, Toby Carvery and Stonehouse), Morrisons Daily, Co-op and Nisa Local on roll-outs, refits and reactive call-outs, from front-of-house LVT to back-of-house safety flooring.

Clients in retail and hospitality

Gaucho
Miller & Carter
Harvester
Toby Carvery
Stonehouse
Marston's
Roadchef
Morrisons Daily
Co-op
Nisa Local

For specifiers

What the specification needs to cover.

The points a retail or hospitality flooring specification normally addresses, front and back of house.

Slip resistance, measured by pendulum: The pendulum test gives a Pendulum Test Value (PTV) and is the method HSE recommends for measuring how slippery a floor is, wet as well as dry.
PTV 36 and above: HSE guidance treats a PTV of 36 or more as low slip potential. Check the wet value: kitchens and bar backs are rarely dry.
Cleanability: Kitchen floors must be cleaned thoroughly every day without losing grip, with coved, sealed edges so grease and water cannot collect at the walls.
Wear in public areas: The commercial use class and wear layer of an LVT or carpet indicate how well it will cope with constant footfall in a bar, restaurant or shop.
Trims and transitions: Where one finish meets another, a flush, secured trim avoids a trip edge in the routes that staff, trays and trolleys use.

General guidance to raise at specification stage, not a substitute for it. Always check the current documents and the manufacturer's test data for the product chosen.