Between Christmas and New Year, most warehouses keep running. The orders do not stop just because the offices have, and the vast majority of 3PL and distribution sites stay open right through.
Some go a little quieter. A few shut for a week or so. Either way, it is worth knowing how floor work fits around you before December arrives.
Christmas is when the areas you cannot normally reach become available
What actually gets done over this period is rectification work, coatings and polishing on areas that are not normally available. The busy dispatch bay, the loading dock, the aisle that never empties.
Flatness work is a good example. We measure the floor with a profilograph, which gives datum, flatness and levelness reports with a clear pass or fail against tolerance. You know exactly where the floor stands, and we can correct the areas that fail.
If the site stays live, that is fine. We know where the problem areas are and we plan the work around your operation, not the other way round. Nobody needs to move stock out to make room for us.
If the building cannot stop, we work around you
Plenty of sites get busier over Christmas, not quieter. Food, drink, distribution centres running through peak, anything feeding retail. For those operations the shutdown is somebody else’s idea.
We do a great deal of our work in live buildings, and it is not a compromise version of the job.
On an automated warehouse in the Midlands we worked roughly three aisles at a time, so the client’s storage and distribution kept running throughout. Part of that site was a live robot field that could only be shut down overnight, so we took the nights and gave the days back. On the joints in that area we used an ultra-fast-curing filler, chosen at quoting stage for one reason: they had to take AGV and AMR traffic again by the next morning.
In a food-safe warehouse of around 6,000m² the windows and doors could not be opened, which rules a petrol machine out completely. Our electric ride-on wet polishing system let us close off small sections at a time while warehouse staff carried on around us.
None of that is a Christmas arrangement. It is how we work all year, which is the point. A site that cannot stop in December cannot stop in March either.
What to sort out before December
The method is the same whether your site is quiet or flat out. What changes is the planning. Talk to us before the programme is fixed rather than after, because a floor that needs more work than expected is a problem in November and a crisis on 29 December.
All our machinery is owned and maintained in house. Over a holiday period that matters more than usual, because hire companies run reduced hours and the wrong machine is not easily swapped at the end of December.
“Because DC Flooring installs every major commercial flooring system, we’re not limited to recommending what we know best. We recommend what’s right for your floor, your environment, and your budget.”
Sometimes the profilograph shows the floor is inside tolerance and the sensible thing is to spend the budget on something else.
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