What makes hoarding food-safe
There’s a clear divide between “builder’s hoarding” and the kind of segregation you need inside a food factory. Builder’s hoarding is opaque, wipeable, and usually a painted plywood on a timber frame. Food-safe hoarding has to tolerate daily hygiene wash-down, resist moisture, support cleanroom-like pressure differentials in high-care areas, and come apart without leaving anything behind that could end up in product.
The biggest failure mode we see on non-specialist hoarding is the joints — panel-to-panel, panel-to-ceiling, and panel-to-floor. If any of those aren’t sealed continuously, dust migrates across, and the segregation is failing silently. Our standard build seals all three interfaces from day one and we inspect them weekly for the duration of the installation.
Working inside live production
Installing hoarding inside a running factory means the installation itself has to respect the same controls the finished hoarding is there to enforce. We’ll plan the install to minimise disruption to production — often working through the sanitation window or a weekend shut — and we’ll run foreign body controls during the install just as we would on a routine maintenance scaffold.
If you’ve got an upcoming refurbishment, fit-out or capital project inside a live food factory anywhere in the Milton Keynes region, get in touch. Early engagement always produces a better result.
