Cold room floor

[Andy AC]

Evening all, has any of you ever cut out a section of damaged cold room flooring and replaced it with a piece of new panel?
My customers cold room floor is damaged and getting waterlogged down the length of his cold room. The floor gets heavy usage down the middle because of the access to the walk in freezer through the opposite end wall. The floor in the freezer section appears to be ok.
I only have access to two sides and the freezer wall is across one of the damage panels, so to replace the floor properly would be major surgery if not impossible + down time and disruption would be unacceptable.
So my plan is to cut out a section down the middle and replace with a new section, seal it up and get the whole floor covered / waterproofed with something? - any ideas? Also I would have to cut through the existing joins in the floor, would it cause it to lose to much structural strength?
Who do you guys recommend for a custom fit panel?
Am I crazy?, or is there a better way of doing it?
any ideas welcome.

Andy

[smpsmp45]

We have done similar work in many a places. But may be the vapour barrier is not right at present & hence it is causing major problem now.

When you replace the Panel piece, ensure you are puttin up the vapur barrier. We also add lots of silcone there as the vapor barrier is surely goint to be damaged.

But mind you this is not the permanent solution!!!

But it works none the less

[old gas bottle]

panels are 1200mm wide so cut the path out and drop another piece in,then i would overlay the whole floor with 3mm ally chequerplate to make it all look nice and the overfloor will spread the weight out,other way is fill the cutout with concrete and then the chequerplate.;)

[Andy AC]

I'm not crazy then?:D

Andy

[taz24]

I'm not crazy then?:D

Andy


You might be but you can still do the floor:D:p:p

Cheers taz

[Dr._Fleck]

Be carefull what you're getting into Andy, it sounds like the freezer panels could be full of moisture and have lost their insulation properties, causing condensation, if this is the case you need to replace the freezer panels. I've seen this problem a few times.:(

[Andy AC]

Dr Fleck
I've been having bad feeling about it too, I don't think doing just the floor is gonna be the answer, I had another look at it yesterday. I also have issues around the freezer door threshold and door frame trims. Most of the ice I removed the other day is starting to form again. I think its time to get a cold room specialist to look at it.
If it was just the floor I'd go for it.

Andy

[old gas bottle]

andy if the panels are wet thats it,time for a new one if the customer will go to all of the trouble and expense, williams tend to be one of the worst for water ingress,just crap insulation,in the older ones anyway,but even if its wet you should be able to stop it icing up arround the door and threshold, obviousley check the heaters are working upto scrarch if not you can buy a transformer and heatertape to fit arround the door and threshold,:)

[ibraheem]

I could see that you must make the right decision , and I preffer the permanent one not temporary one, first try to know age of that cold store, and economy value of it, if it is already more than ten years, and it is bussy cold room, pls.you have to change complete floor and repair the any wall panel that is not ok, and see that you check the heaters , that will be the better option , by saying that you may find your self in the situation that complete cold rool insulated panel have to be changed, wishing you best decision