Educational flooring solution
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oth students and staff deserve environments that are conducive to learning and growth. Therefore, it’s important to find the right, long-term flooring solution for your facility to keep your school safe and sanitary. Too often, flooring projects are budgeted as inexpensively as possible in the short-term which results in higher lifetime facility costs. Choose a flooring partner that shares your vision and takes a collaborative approach to solving problems within your facility. High-performance, seamless epoxy floors provide exceptional value and low life-cycle costs - all in a variety of colours, styles, and textures to meet your needs. Aesthetics and performance are both important in factoring your decision for a flooring provider. Seamless epoxy floors are available in a number of standard and custom
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colours, tweed blends, and patterns. Floors can also be created with logos and inlays. Pure and simple – seamless means cleaner. With a seamless floor, there are no joints or cracks to trap dirt and bacteria. They are durable, easy to clean, and stand up to demanding high-traffic environments. Seamless floors require no waxing, buffing, or stripping and are resistant to salt damage and stains which saves precious maintenance time. Whether intended for a hightraffic corridor, cafeteria, classroom, kitchen, washroom, or laboratory, epoxy flooring systems are specifically designed for performance. They are uniquely designed to outperform traditional surfaces such as carpet, vinyl, tile, or sheet goods providing exceptional value and low life-cycle cost. In the long term, epoxy does not need to be
replaced. It can be sanded and topcoated for minimal costs, whereas resilient and vinyl flooring often require complete removal and installation of new material costing more than the initial installation. In an educational setting, safety is extremely important. When it comes to flooring, slips and falls shouldn’t be a concern. Epoxy floor systems are available in a number of textured surfaces to help keep students, faculty, and visitors safe even when it’s wet or muddy. Seamless wear-resistant floors are specially formulated to stand up to heavy traffic and offer more flexibility under foot by providing far more comfort than many other hard surfaces. Most flooring products will amplify even small sounds creating distraction and an unappealing acoustical environment. Seamless, resinous floors can posi-
