restaurant kitchen floor repair
#1
restaurant kitchen floor repair
In the hotel where I work as a maintenance person we have a restaurant kitchen where the floor is badly in need of repair in one area. Attached are a few photos of the spot. The floor area is in between two walk-in cooler doors (outside the coolers), thus the drain pipe from the up in fridge coil drip pans which drains the water from them during their regular cycling down into the floor drain. The reddish colored flooring itself is a kind of old heavy duty linoleum or whatever. I measured the thickness of this lineolum or vinyl or whatever it is, it is just a hair thicker than 1/8". Under the linoleum is a concrete floor. We were thinking we could probably cut out a square section of the linoleum around the bad area, scrape it off and clean the concrete as good as possible, and then reform the floor with the sloping toward the drain using a concrete patch material, then try to patch the linoleum if we could ever figure out exactly what it is or where to get it. Any comments/advice appreciated. I do realize the floor area shown here is a scummy mess.
#2
I am surprised that the restaurant has not been cited with health code violations. The drains for the refrigerators need to be tied into a drain that ties into the floor drain. This would require cutting the concrete to do the required plumbing. Then, the floor can be patched and prepped for new floor covering or old floor covering removed. If floor covering was installed before 1983, the covering could be linoleum. Old floor coverings and adhesives contained asbestos. Encapsulating the floor covering by covering over is recommended.
#3
I am surprised that the restaurant has not been cited with health code violations. The drains for the refrigerators need to be tied into a drain that ties into the floor drain. This would require cutting the concrete to do the required plumbing. Then, the floor can be patched and prepped for new floor covering or old floor covering removed. If floor covering was installed before 1983, the covering could be linoleum. Old floor coverings and adhesives contained asbestos. Encapsulating the floor covering by covering over is recommended.
#4
I once knew a couple guys who owned a small restaurant/bar. I happened to be there one day when the health inspector came. After the inspector left, I asked how did it go? They got cited for missing and cracked tiles in the kitchen.