Commercial timber competes with chair castors, grit ingress and spill chemistry absent from domestic briefing norms. Wear-layer thickness and coating hardness interact with maintenance budgets landlords actually fund—not ideals assumed during schematic design alone.
Specification levers
Species hardness, engineered veneer thickness, adhesive chemistry rated for residual slab moisture and high-build coating regimes each shift lifecycle economics. Slip ratings must align with wet operational realities—not dry showroom friction alone.
Programme coupling
After-hours installation slices patron disruption while protecting curing films. Quotes must embed reopening buffers agreed contractually; premature traffic under rolling loads damages films and produces abrasion defects remediable only through downtime rarely accommodated mid-trade week unless sequencing forbids early reopening plainly upfront.