Building type: hotels
Floor performance requirements in hotels
Hotels need quiet, level guest room floors and a screed programme that can be phased around continued trading, since full closure for refurbishment is rarely an option.
Refurbishing a hotel in phases?
Talk to us about sequencing the screed works around your trading calendar.
Or call our landline on 01392 237700
Hotel floors have to support a wide range of finishes, from carpeted guest rooms to tiled bathrooms and hard-wearing corridors, while keeping impact noise between rooms low enough to protect the guest experience.
Because most hotel refurbishments happen wing by wing or floor by floor while the rest of the building keeps trading, phasing and noise management during the works are as important as the floor specification itself.
Hotels — the points that decide it
- Separating floors between guest rooms and between rooms and corridors benefit from resilient layer detailing similar to residential separating floors, given how sensitive guests are to noise from neighbouring rooms.
- En-suite bathrooms introduce falls to drainage and waterproofing details that need coordinating with the surrounding screed level in adjoining bedroom areas.
- Phased works around trading areas mean pour timing, drying and access routes all need planning around which parts of the building remain open to guests.
- Corridors and back-of-house areas see continuous trolley and housekeeping traffic, so surface durability and a level, crack-free base for the final floor finish matter for long-term wear.
- Noise and dust from the works themselves need managing carefully where occupied rooms are nearby, which can affect pour timing and drying methods chosen.
- Reinstatement of furniture, fittings and finishes after the screed has cured needs sequencing into a tight overall refurbishment programme.
Phasing works around a trading hotel
Refurbishing a hotel floor by floor or wing by wing while neighbouring areas stay open means the screed pour and drying period both have to be planned around a live building, with access, noise and dust considered alongside the technical specification.
This often makes a faster-drying or force-dried approach attractive, since it shortens the period a section of the hotel is out of use and reduces the knock-on pressure on the rest of the refurbishment programme.
Guest room acoustics and bathroom coordination
Guest room floors need level consistency between the bedroom screed and the falls built into an en-suite bathroom floor, so these two areas are usually designed together rather than as separate packages, particularly where underfloor heating extends into the bathroom.
Refurbishing a hotel in phases?
Talk to us about sequencing the screed works around your trading calendar.
Or call our landline on 01392 237700
Hotels — your questions
In short
Hotels need quiet, level guest room floors and a screed programme that can be phased around continued trading, since full closure for refurbishment is rarely an option.
Refurbishing a hotel in phases?
Talk to us about sequencing the screed works around your trading calendar.