Kitchen Colored Sand Floor Coating

Product overview

The same coloured sand system we fit indoors and in bathrooms — coloured aggregate bound in epoxy, worked across the surface and sealed under a gloss wear coat — specified here against a kitchen. The material is identical to our interior coloured sand. What changes is the duty: this room collects a film of cooking-oil aerosol that no other room in the house produces, it is washed with detergent far more often than a hallway, appliances stand on it for two decades, and it has a sink and a dishwasher, both of which leak where nobody is looking.

Coverage, thickness, pack size and finish are on the Technical Specs tab, and so is the list of figures we do not hold. Where a cell is empty it is empty because nobody has measured it, not because the data is confidential.

What actually ruins a kitchen floor

It is not the grease. It is what people reach for to remove the grease. Caustic and solvent-based degreasers dull a gloss epoxy film in patches that cannot be blended back, and a household that degreases weekly will do it eventually. So the honest argument for a coated kitchen floor is not that it is immune to oil — it is that a continuous film wipes in one pass where a grout grid absorbs oil and goes dull in the lines, and that a neutral detergent with a damp mop keeps it looking new.

Which means the first question we ask about a kitchen is not the colour, it is what the floor is washed with. If the answer is a degreaser or a steam mop, this build is the wrong answer, and there are better ones we will point you to.

Why the texture is worked closed here

This is the one specification decision that is genuinely different from a bathroom, and it is a trade rather than an upgrade. An open aggregate profile gives more mechanical grip under wet than anything else in this family — which is why we leave it open in a shower. In a kitchen the same profile holds crumbs and, worse, holds a grease film down in the grain where a mop cannot reach it. So on this build the aggregate is back-rolled and then flooded under the wear coat: closed enough to wipe clean, still textured enough that a splash of water does not make the surface slick.

That costs a little of the barefoot grip an open floor would have, and we would rather say so here than have it discovered in month three. Neither version carries a slip classification, because we have not run the ramp test that would justify one, and we do not describe any floor as slip-proof.

Water, the sink and the dishwasher

A decorative resin floor is not a waterproofing layer. It is a continuous wearing surface, so it will not let a spilled pan through the way an open grout grid can, but it does not hold back water travelling underneath and it is not a tanking system.

The kitchen version of that sentence matters more than the bathroom one, because the water here comes from appliances rather than from a shower. A dishwasher seal or a sink waste that has been leaking for two years has already gone into the make-up, and a film laid over it will not stop it — it will just hide it longer. Where a floor has been wet under an appliance, the slab is tested and dealt with first and the coating is the finish over it.

What a coated floor does change in this room is that there is no grout line and no perimeter gap under the units for that water to be absorbed into, and a leak becomes visible and wipeable instead of permanent.

Appliances, point loads and the sun by the window

This is a light-duty finish: it is specified for a room people walk in and stand in while they cook, not for a floor anything is driven on. A refrigerator or a dishwasher on its own feet is fine, and the honest guidance is pads under the feet and nothing dragged — a gloss topcoat is scratched by being moved, not by being walked on. Where an appliance has to come out for a plumber, lift or roll it on a board rather than dragging it across the film.

Kitchens also have windows, and an aromatic epoxy film ambers in direct light. On a pale colour in front of a window that shift is visible within a season, and it is the resin rather than the pigment — so it is not a defect claim. Where a specification cannot accept any colour change, the answer is a UV-stable build from that range, not this one.

Where it goes

• Kitchen floors, including open-plan — the seamless field runs through without a threshold strip, which is what makes an open-plan kitchen read as one room rather than two floors meeting.
• Utility and laundry rooms — a wipeable floor with no perimeter gap for a washing-machine leak to disappear behind.
• Pantry, scullery and boot rooms — the room where the floor is cleaned hardest and looked at least.
• Renovation over sound kitchen tile — the thin build avoids lifting a working kitchen floor. See below for when that route is wrong.
• The perimeter and the base of the units — carried up as a coved junction rather than stopped short, so the line under the cabinets wipes instead of being scraped out of a gap.

It is not a shower screen, a tanking layer or an external floor. For a terrace or a balcony the build is different in one specific way — the wear coat is chosen for weathering: see outdoor coloured sand. For a room that is wet every day, see bathroom and wet room coloured sand.

Over existing kitchen tiles

Most kitchen floors in existing buildings are tile, and the reason people ask for a coating is to avoid lifting a working kitchen. That works where the tile is bonded, flat and hollow-free across the whole floor — including the areas behind and under the units, which get inspected exactly once — and where the glaze can be abraded to a mechanical key. It does not work where the bed has debonded, where there is movement under the tile, or where an old leak has softened the make-up: those are lifted or repaired, because a thin decorative film over a failed substrate records the failure and holds the moisture in.

The dedicated page for that route, including what we ask you to test before ordering, is renovation over existing tiles.

Twelve fixed colours

The palette is the twelve factory-blended colours listed on this page, shared with our interior and bathroom builds so a kitchen runs into the rooms around it without a strip of a different colour in the doorway. The aggregate is blended into the pack rather than tinted on site, so a repeat order matches the first one.

This product is not part of the custom matching programme. Where a project needs a specific RAL or Pantone reference, that is a different build from our colour-matched range.

One honest note on the swatches: the images on this page are indicative renders, not photographed projects. Pale colours in a bright kitchen read lighter than the chip suggests, Multi-Colour lays down closer to a grey blend than the name implies, and Peach Red sits nearer to pink than to red once it covers a floor under white light.

What we do not publish

Hardness, abrasion loss, adhesion, slip classification, VOC, heat and chemical resistance are absent from the technical table because we have not tested this build. None of them is carried over from a similar product, and a supplier listing is not a test report — the listing behind this one contradicts itself on both pack hardness and how the material is mixed, which is exactly the kind of figure we will not repeat.

What we do publish — coverage, thickness, pack size, finish and the colour count — is the same set of figures we carry on our interior page for the same material, marked as partner factory data so you can see which numbers are ours and which are theirs.