Three Operating Rooms Re-Floored in Sheet Vinyl in Chandler, AZ

Heat-welded homogeneous sheet vinyl with flash cove for three hospital operating rooms in Chandler — under ICRA containment, with full floor prep and paint.

The project

Diamondback Service Pros replaced the flooring in three operating rooms at a hospital in Chandler. An operating room needs a floor that is seamless, easy to disinfect and continuous up the wall, and the rooms had to go back into service ready for surgery. The job is part of our commercial flooring and healthcare work across the Valley.

Scope of work

Set up infection-control (ICRA) containment with HEPA-filtered negative air machines before demolition
Removed the existing flooring
Self-leveled the concrete with Mapei Self Leveler Plus where needed, then skim-coated with Mapei Planiprep and sanded the whole floor
Installed about 662 square feet of Tarkett iQ Optima homogeneous sheet vinyl in two colors, set in AC MR-95 adhesive
Heat-welded about 130 linear feet of seams
Ran about 132 linear feet of flash cove — the floor turned up the wall as its own base — on PVC cove stick with etched aluminum cove cap
Took items off the walls, patched and primed, painted corner to corner with two coats and rehung everything
Cleaned the rooms and removed the containment

Why heat-welded sheet vinyl with flash cove

Homogeneous sheet vinyl is the same material all the way through, so wear never exposes a different layer. Welding the seams with a matching rod and coving the floor up the wall takes away the joints and square corners where dirt and moisture collect — the reason it is a standard choice for surgical suites and other clinical rooms.

Working inside an active hospital

Each room was contained before demolition, with negative air keeping construction dust out of the corridors around it. Floor preparation is where an operating-room floor is won or lost, so leveling and skim coating were their own step before any sheet went down. The job closed with a walkthrough with the hospital's project contact.