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06-24-2019
To avoid rising costs of materials and maintenance in your facility, proper floor selection is a key component. Too often flooring projects are budgeted as inexpensively as possible based on upfront costs, but end up costing more in replacement and repairs over time. This blog highlights how resinous flooring can offer long-term, cost-saving benefits.
High-Moisture Areas
Often times during the design stage, consumers make the mistake of installing vinyl composite tile (VCT), sheet vinyl, and resilient vinyl flooring, in high-moisture environments – these include tub rooms, kitchens, showers, washrooms, wet labs, warehouses, and other areas prone to contact with water and other liquids. In each of these areas, water damage can force the owner to replace VCT and sheet vinyl flooring prematurely, as their unsuitability causes irreversible damage. Resin flooring is preferred for water-resistant protection.
Seamless floors in high-moisture areas like showers prevent water infiltration, providing a safe, slip-resistant surface that maintains cleanliness and long-term durability.
High-Traffic Environments
Heavy-traffic areas, such as hospitals, where vinyl flooring is often destroyed by rolling hospital beds, wheelchairs, and castors, benefit from seamless resin floors. While some flooring, such as VCT, may offer a cheaper alternative, they require upkeep and maintenance (cleaning and waxing) not only for aesthetic purposes, but for performance too. Epoxy and urethane seamless floors offer easy-to-clean durability without expensive, labor-intensive waxing and buffing.
In high-traffic hospital areas like corridors, seamless floors ensure durable and hygienic surfaces that handle constant movement while reducing maintenance.
Slippery Areas
Slip-resistant floors are designed with material properties to help reduce slipperiness and increase traction – a feature that is critical to protecting employees, customers, and visitors in both industrial and commercial facilities. Resin floors can do just that.
A commercial area, such as a grocery store, thrives on its customers, which is why their safety is of the utmost importance. VCT is not recommended in aisles near the freezers or butcher sections, as leaks and traffic can cause the VCT floor to lose traction over time.
When analyzing life cycle costs, seamless, resin floors will show a savings in long-term cost over vinyl flooring. Seamless, chemical, abrasion and impact-resistant epoxy and urethane systems are designed to perform and last in even the harshest environments.
Seamless flooring in grocery stores ensure a sanitary, easy-to-clean surface with superior resistance to moisture and chemicals.
Resinous flooring offers this grocery store a sleek, modern look while eliminating grout lines typically found in vinyl composite tile.
About Stonhard
Stonhard is the unprecedented world leader in manufacturing and installing high-performance polymer floor, wall and lining systems. Stonhard maintains 300 territory managers and 200 application teams worldwide who will work with you on design specification, project management, final walk-through and service after the sale. Stonhard’s single-source warranty covers both products and installation. Contact us to learn more about our precision installation methods and specialized products.
About The Author
Lynn Mattoon
Content Manager
Lynn Mattoon has an extensive career in B2B marketing, specializing in industrial and commercial health and safety solutions. She joined Stonhard in 2015 and serves as the company's content manager overseeing the creation, curation, and strategy of Stonhard’s digital content. She earned a B.A. in English from Rowan University, a certification in secondary education, and has a lifelong love of writing.
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