Services & Maintenance: Rubber Flooring

Flooring of any kind once installed needs care and maintenance, this not only keep the area clean and hygienic it also serves in prolonging the life of the floor. You can also come across any minor problems if you have regular maintenance and service done for your flooring, this prevents the problems tuning into major embarrassments and money sucking pits later on.

Certain types of flooring require a heavy load of chemical and floor cleaning liquids along with polis machines a few examples of suck kind of flooring would be tiles, marble and granite. Vinyl PVC flooring also requires some amount of cleaning but with only floor chemicals, usually a clean mop and broom will do too.

The biggest motivator for anyone to install Rubber Flooring   is its durability and range of colors, timely cleaning and maintenance not only helps keep the color intact it also helps in enhancing the durability of the flooring. Rubber flooring is most commonly used in gyms, fitness studios, tennis courts, weight rooms, changing rooms, indoor tracks and health facilities. The new improved versions are also installed in and around saunas, steam baths and swimming pools. There is also a flame retardant version which is installed in labs and kitchens.

In order to maintain the durability and color of your rubber based flooring proper cleaning is required, you do not need experts to this. Usually a mop on the Rubber Mat or Tile would do the trick but remember not to use any harsh chemicals as this can erode the color and can cause the rubber to break off. Domestic Rubber Tiles need to be cleaned once a month preferably with a vacuum if not then a mop would do. Rubber flooring installed in a commercial setting requires a daily mop care to keep the area clean and hygienic, vacuuming should be done once ever week preferably on an off day to get rid of the stuck dirt and pieces that maybe stuck within the creases. Commercial establishments can also hire experts once a year to remove the entire rubber floor and have the sub flooring cleaned with chemicals along with the Rubber Floor vacuumed, mopped and dried, this ensures the longevity of the flooring and keeps the color intact along with maintaining a high hygiene standard required from a commercial establishment.

Commercial establishments require a once in a year Super Clean because of the high footfall they experience.  Domestic settings even in the case of a home gym or fitness studio may never require a sub floor clean as the lower footfall leads to a highly reduced form of dirt and dust. Domestic Rubber Tiles are also installed in kitchens with the new flame retardant version which also provides great cushion for feet, so you can now spend hours making those amazing recipes without needing a foot massage at the end of day. The kitchen tiles come in an interlock format and can easily be installed by the consumer themselves. IF the tiles require cleaning the interlock can easily be unlocked and the cleaning done.

Chemical Labs also use Rubber Tiles, falling chemicals being the primary reason. Chemicals falling on floors leave unusual stains which cannot be wiped, mopped or washed away. Rubber flooring with its high durability and low absorbance allows the chemical to be cleaned away with a swipe without any discoloration or damage to the floor beneath. The average life of Rubber based flooring is about 7 years in a commercial setting, for this very reason labs install them in dark colors and it saves them troves of money on flooring issues.

Play Pans have a different kind of flooring known as PVC which is directly installed as a made to order and color flooring and thus is the main floor in any indoor or outdoor setting. Te flooring just requires a small mop up and you are done. It is advisable however to check the flooring for any breaking away molds so that they are not ingested by the children and do not result in any injury. Play pan flooring are usually highly impact absorbent and as a result any break in flooring must be immediately amended to prevent any mishaps. PVC flooring also has a long life and durability along with a higher color vibrancy ranges available to match the vivid imagination of the little ones that will prance around on them.

Swimming Pool, saunas and steam baths install RubberTiles and Mats for their higher slip resistance and resistance to water and steam. The tiles have high tensile strength and despite being around humid conditions the tiles can last really long , care however has to be taken to keep the tiles dry by the end of the day .Water accumulation on its surface can cause tile chipping . The rubber based flooring should be mopped dry every day to ensure that the tiles stay clean and do not become home to parasites and bacteria and once every few month the tiles must be unlocked and cleaned along with the sub flooring.

Last but not the least Public Gyms and fitness areas install Rubber Flooring as it has been found to withstand the forces of nature with gusto. The colors though are chosen according to the high footfall and dirt that the flooring has to bear everyday and hence darker colors are chosen for any public setting. The high foot traffic also means the quality of the flooring as to be A grade and last really long as changing flooring in a highly accessible public place can be quite difficult and not mention puts the public off too.

To surmise Rubber Flooring is the only flooring that can save you money in every aspect be it durability, service and maintenance.