Vivarium & Animal Facility Flooring Systems
Daily washdown, harsh sanitizers, cage racks on casters, and an accreditation inspector who looks at the floor-to-wall joint first. Maverick builds the seamless, coved, fully cleanable envelopes vivariums are scored on.
Built for the Cleanability Standard
Animal facilities are audited on cleanability — seamless floors, integral cove bases, and no place for water or contamination to hide.
Vivarium flooring is a seamless, impervious envelope: broadcast resin wear surfaces with integral cove bases, no joints to harbor water or contamination, and chemistry rated for daily washdown and harsh sanitizers. Holding rooms and corridors run on epoxy broadcast; cagewash — live steam, detergent chemistry, and thermal shock — takes urethane cement with full slope-to-drain detailing.
Holding Rooms
Seamless broadcast floors with integral cove base — rack traffic, daily washdown, and sanitizer chemistry without joints to harbor anything.
Procedure & Lab Spaces
Smooth, cleanable finishes rated for the disinfection protocol — chemical-resistant and glare-controlled under task lighting.
Cagewash
The hardest room in the building: live steam, detergent chemistry, and thermal shock — urethane cement with full slope-to-drain detailing.
Corridors
Broadcast wear surfaces that take cart and rack traffic, coved at every wall, with transitions detailed at each door.
Necropsy & Support
Impervious, sealed, and fully washable — floors that decontaminate completely between uses.
| Zone | Primary Exposure | Recommended System | Nominal Thickness |
|---|---|---|---|
| Holding Rooms | Rack traffic, daily washdown, sanitizer chemistry | MavCoat epoxy broadcast with integral cove base | — |
| Procedure & Lab Spaces | Disinfection protocol; glare control under task lighting | Smooth, cleanable MavCoat finishes | — |
| Cagewash | Live steam, detergent chemistry, thermal shock | MavCrete urethane cement with full slope-to-drain detailing | 3/16″–¼″ |
| Corridors | Cart and rack traffic; transitions at each door | Broadcast wear surface, coved at every wall | — |
| Necropsy & Support | Full decontamination between uses | Impervious, sealed MavCoat build | — |
The Systems This Work Demands
MavCoat Epoxy Broadcast
Seamless textured builds with integral cove — the vivarium workhorse.
Explore the SystemMavCrete Urethane Cement
Cagewash and thermal shock zones — mortar systems that survive live steam.
Explore the SystemMavJoint Joint Treatment
Every joint honored through the system and sealed — nothing for an auditor to flag.
Explore the SystemA University Vivarium, Photographed On Site
Flake broadcast corridor with integral cove base up both walls — installed by our crew and photographed before turnover.
Vivarium corridor — seamless broadcast with integral cove base
Specify It Once, Correctly
The Architect Center carries the full standard detail library, isometric system shop drawings, and CSI 3-part specifications under Section 09 67 23 Resinous Flooring.
Planning This Work?
Shutdown windows, phasing, occupied facilities — bring us the constraint and we will engineer the floor around it.