PVC panels OR Epoxy based paint on walls of a dairy / milk room

John_F

Hi all, will soon be upgrading the dairy on a farm and wondering what we will do with the walls. The dairy will have two wash troughs (one hot one cold), a bulk milk tank, maybe a water heater and a hand wash basin. the walls must be easy to clean (preferable to wipe clean than use of a high pressure hose) but will be exposed to heat (water splashes at 80 deg approx), steam, chemicals (acid and alkaline detergents, and disinfectants), milk, and hand wash detergents.
Tiles were thee most common option before but the grout attracts dirt etc.
So from what i have researched we have two options:

one is pvc panels, most common in 8x4 sheets that would be glued on to the wall. these are most common in freezer rooms, food manufacturing / industrial kitchens.


the other is an epoxy based paint.


anyone have any experience of any of these and how easy they are to maintain after (will the epoxy paint need touching up, the wall to the outside of the dairy is not a cavity wall but a block wall so will dampness affect either option? etc.)

Thanks in advance

Do-more

I was looking at these materials for a commercial food preparation area recently.

One thing to consider is that any of the PVC boards that I looked at at least were foamed PVC sometimes known as foamex. This material needs to be bonded to a flat surface and even at that the impact strength is not great so I would avoid that sort of material in a dairy.

I opted for a specialist wet room paint because the walls were uneven and too much work was required as a result to install the PVC panels.

Poor Uncle Tom

steel trowel plaster finish with stainless splash back to 1.5m height (5')