Floor in Spar’s Secunda Store is Second to None

When Spar built a new store in the town of Secunda, it wanted the floor to not only provide a clean and durable surface but also to wow customers with bright colours and decorative patterns.

To create this bespoke finish, Spar worked with Flowcrete South Africa to design and install high performance floors across the main shopping area, kitchen and butchers of the SuperSpar site as well as throughout the adjoining Tops Spar liquor store.

The seamless resin terrazzo system Mondéco Earth was chosen over an epoxy alternative, as it would provide the cleanability, functionality and longevity properties required alongside an almost unlimited design potential.

2,800m² of Mondéco Earth was supplied for the project in a wide range of attractive and complementary colours, including Snow, Pebble, Moonstone, Sea Green, Spring Green and Coral. The colours and patterns reflected specific parts of the store, for example a lush green was used for the flower stand and the sushi bar’s seating area was bordered with a rich red band.

The Mondéco range allows for multiple colours to be easily applied across the floor in intricate patterns. This design versatility is thanks to the system’s paint-by-numbers application method, where the outline is marked out using aluminium trims and then the resin material is poured into the designated sections.

Granite and flint additives were added to the resin terrazzo material within the SuperSpar and Tops Spar floors. The floor area was then diamond ground down to create a shimmering, dappled lustre across the finish.

A vibrant white surface was applied in the SuperSpar’s main shopping area with curving shapes in red, blue, green, cream and turquoise interspersed across the floor. A decorative, single-tone Mondéco Earth Snow surface was applied in the adjacent Tops Spar liquor store.

As a well-known brand it was important that each interior design element of the store conveyed Spar’s identity. The crisp and clear visual style of Mondéco Earth fulfilled this criterion and meant that Spar could create a finish that would effectively tie into its overarching image. 

The seamless and impervious nature of seamless resin terrazzo means that it is quick and easy to clean, minimising hassle for the site’s cleaning staff and ensuring that customers always see a hygienic and blemish-free floor area.

The system’s durability means that it won’t deteriorate when faced with the heavy foot traffic, point loading, impacts, scuffs, scrapes and stains that floors in busy commercial facilities inevitably face.

Prior to applying the floor finish, the site’s concrete slab had to be levelled out to SR1 to provide a substrate that the resin material would bond to and that would not disrupt the completed surface.

350m² of the polyurethane floor coating Flowfresh MF was also applied within SuperSpar’s kitchen and butchers. This antimicrobial enhanced, HACCP International certified coating would maintain a hygienic, seamless surface despite the extreme temperatures, food by-products and cleaning chemicals that it would be exposed to.