Commonwealth Kitchen: Level Oven Landing and Pitch to Drain

A new oven needed a level place to sit, and the rest of the kitchen floor needed to fall to the drain. Topcoat built both into 1,300 square feet of Polycrete SLB urethane cement with a Colorfast topcoat.

Project Details

Location: Dorchester, Massachusetts
Facility: Commonwealth Kitchen
Project area: 1,300 square feet
Completed: June 2023
System: Dur-A-Flex Polycrete SLB urethane cement with Colorfast topcoat
Scope: Level landing for a new oven, with the floor pitched from the landing to the drain

A New Oven and a Floor That Needed to Drain

Commonwealth Kitchen was installing a new oven in its Dorchester kitchen. The oven needed a level landing to sit on, while the surrounding floor needed to pitch toward the drain.

The new floor had to do both: stay flat where the oven would sit, then slope from that landing to the drain.

Preparing the Floor and Setting the Pitch

Topcoat ground the existing floor coating to prepare the surface. Our crew then laid out screed strips to set the level landing and the pitch from the landing to the drain.

With the screeds in place, the crew filled and troweled the sections between them to form the new slope.

Installing Polycrete SLB With a Colorfast Topcoat

Over the sloped base, Topcoat installed Dur-A-Flex Polycrete SLB urethane cement and finished it with a Colorfast topcoat.

A Level Landing and a Floor That Falls to the Drain

The finished floor provides a level landing for the new oven and falls to the drain. The 1,300-square-foot kitchen now has a glossy medium-gray urethane cement floor with gray cove at the walls. We install kitchen and food-processing floors across the city; see commercial and industrial flooring in Boston.

1,300 SF

Level Oven Landing

Pitched to Drain

Project Sequence

1. Prepare

Existing floor coating ground.

2. Set the Pitch

Screeds laid out from the oven landing to the drain.

3. Build the Slope

Sections between screeds filled and troweled.

4. Install

Polycrete SLB and Colorfast topcoat installed.

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