Safety Flooring - A Wise Selection

Flooring worries are not just a commercial phenomenon, householders too have to go through this grind where they are inundated with choices that makes one go dizzy. You could still argue that if the flooring  is for a living area then you have a few limited options and can actually only go overboard from the budgeting point of view if you were on the higher side of the income bracket.

The issue that mostly concerns flooring installers is when they go in for areas where safety is a concern namely: gyms, exercise zone, personal gyms, fitness studios, children play pans, fitness studios, saunas, steam baths, public showers and personal/public/commercial swimming pools. Some of the areas mentioned have a high footfall ratio and also have to deal with moisture and antics of the users, some of which are rather bizarre to put it mildly.

Exercise zones have a higher footfall in a commercial setting and hence the risk of equipment falling is higher as result these places require flooring that can handle heavy equipment falling on it. Gym Flooring Delhi has high shock absorption strength along with durability and hence are best suited for such an establishment. The other reason Rubber based flooring is required is that such an establishment has a high risk of people falling and a hard flooring is bound to cause serious injury. ‘Prevention is better than Cure’ goes the saying, this can be applied to a high risk flooring scenario any given day. In order to avoid people picking up serious injuries in a commercial exercise zone and also avoid a potentially life sucking law suit, owners opt for Rubber Mats which are not only easy to install but also have a long life. Combined with a long life and great color design patterns these mats are the most obvious choice for exercise zones which are commercial in nature.

Exercise Zones which are more personal in nature and hence have less equipment and less footfalls also face the problem of compatible flooring, the issue arises from the fact that most of these are built in rooms which already has expensive flooring installed. They also run the same amount of injury risk from falls as in a commercial establishment. Therefore to protect the flooring which in certain residential zones is quite expensive, Rubber Tiles were created. Rubber tiles are providing the style quotient that rubber mats cannot. The interlocking feature makes them easy to install and also provides for easy cleaning options when required. The tiles are the best option for a domestic setting for one primary reason alone: style, you can get almost any color coordination that your heart desires along with mix and matches to add to the ambiance of your desired area of installation. Rubber based tiles have also enters the domestic arena as they can be installed in the kitchen too, the new flame retardant version is absolutely safe for the kitchen and its cushioning effect is an absolute delight for your feet when preparing large meals.

Children Play Pans whether in your back yard, multi-residential apartments, and public -parks or even malls, all have to be installed on flooring that provides  the aura of safety, it should absolutely convince the accompanying guardians and parents that even if their children were to fall on the floor they will get up unscathed. Child safety is a paramount feature in any kid’s area and Rubber flooring shouts safety from every one of its granules.

The other thing about rubber based flooring is that it can withstand the forces of nature and has a long durable life, which means once installed you save money by the truckloads. NO spending money on floor cleaning chemicals, no more hiring professionals to maintain that squeaky shiny floor. The rubber based floor is so easy to maintain that those stress lines on your head will vanish right away.

Public showers, swimming pools commercial/personal, saunas and steam baths commercial/personal, all usually have expensive flooring sometimes in the form of tiles and sometimes expensive marble flooring. Now, these might look and feel all glitzy and shiny but they do not provide even an ounce of safety as the slippage quotient rating is through the roof. Rubber mats and tiles are the only solution for these places, with new breakthroughs in technology, rubber mats are now moisture free and hence can absorb really high amounts of water without disintegrating, this not only means that you can install it in areas with greater water presence, it also means that you can walk on it without any worry of slipping away.

There are now new Flame Retardant Rubber Tiles which can be installed in kitchens and in chemical labs with easy do it yourself interlock technology. The kitchen tiles are completely safe and any oil and food drops can we wiped right off. The same goes for any chemical spillage in a lab. If you are worried about how to clean the floor beneath once these tiles are installed, you just need to know that the tiles can be removed by opening the interlock and just as easily they can be put back together.

Hotels have now started installing rubber based flooring in a big way. Since hotels have to cope with multiple large sized gyms and swimming pools they require both rubber mats and tiles for safety cleanliness. However economics plays a big role in rubber based flooring for hotels; too many swimming pools result in a lot of flooring expenditure for hotels and hence installing Rubber flooring in whichever form they find appealing makes a lot more sense .A lot of footfall around a swimming pool also results in the floor being wet and hence hiring a lot of people to keep mopping the floor dry is not possible, rubber based flooring provides the safety net required and saves money too.  The same goes for gyms in hotels, hotel gyms are large in size and are accompanied by saunas, steam batch and massage therapies, thus having rubber based floors makes more sense economically and from a safety point of view.

All in all we say make a wise selection and don’t be pound wise and penny foolish.