From elementary, middle, and high schools, to college the floors take some serious wear and tear with all those kids. Between the heavy foot traffic, dropped items, and spilled food and drinks, moving furniture, officials at these educational institutions realized that they needed a flooring system that could hold up and also not have to be replaced every few years.
Everlast Industrial Flooring is Connecticut’s top-rated epoxy flooring company. We offer epoxy floor coatings, flooring repairs and maintenance, industrial floor systems, concrete polishing, and more. Our mission is to provide your commercial business, warehouse, or educational facility with beautiful, durable flooring that is non-slip, easy to maintain, and long-lasting. Below we’ll take a look at the importance of quality flooring in our school systems. Contact us today to get your project started.
Common Use Sites
Selecting the appropriate floor covering for your school is an important issue that planners must address during renovations and new construction. Often lunchrooms, kitchens, main halls, secondary halls, bathrooms, locker rooms, and classrooms will benefit greatly with an epoxy floor finish.
In bathrooms, kitchens, and locker rooms, epoxy flooring with an integral cove base creates a seamless surface that’s easy to clean and will not harbor bacteria or mildew.
Classrooms
From pre-k to college and up, classrooms can receive a lot of damage from students. With younger children spilling and dropping food items, to older kids leaving scuff marks and divots on the substrate, a floor coating can help prevent these problems from ruining your floor.
Hallways and Corridors
Excessive floor waxing and wet floors are the major cause of slips and falls. Schools with hundreds or even thousands of children wearing wet boots in the winter months and children excited to get to their next class or to go outside for recess may rush through these hallways and slip accidents happen. This is very dangerous for staff and students and can result in major lawsuits for the school.
Everlast Industrial Flooring offers epoxy floor finishes with non-slip additives and textured finishes for a slip-resistant floor. Our decorative chip epoxy systems provide a terrazzo-like appearance that allows for sure-footing.
Facilities need hallway and corridor floor designs that easily coordinate with the rest of the building, while still maintaining their superior performance properties and their ability to stand up to very heavy foot traffic. Using an epoxy floor finish in Hallways is not only safe with their nonslip properties but also attractive floor designs can be used to incorporate the school spirit. Everlast Industrial flooring can infuse a bit of fun, with logos, directional indicators, stripes, shapes, patterns, and borders
Kitchens
The Floor surfaces in Kitchens are also of particular concern since they must be easy to clean yet slip-resistant, heat resistant, protect against grease and grime, product spills, and damages from scuffs and chips.
Restrooms and Lockers
Cleaning and maintaining your school restrooms can be a timely task for your janitorial staff. With our floor coatings, you can help make their jobs easier by providing a seamless finish that will not allow moisture to penetrate the surface preventing the development of bacteria in hard-to-reach areas. Optional antimicrobial systems go even further by helping to fight bacteria growth with the use of an additive compound that chemically eliminates microorganisms
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Cafeterias
The cafeterias are in constant use for most of the day serving breakfast and lunch in several shifts. Durability, slip resistance, and impact/ abrasion resistance is a must-have for your flooring system.
Time to clean in-between meal services is not an easy task which can result in food splatters and spills left on the floor. Having an integral floor to wall cove base reduces germ-harboring corners. Hybrid flooring systems in these areas work well that offer moisture mitigation and waterproofing options.
Metal/Wood Workshops
Dings, sparks, and hot metal are all common in a metal or woodwork shop which can affect how your floor looks and how the floor holds up. An epoxy floor finish can protect from hard abrasions from tools dropping on the floor and easy cleanup of surface dust.
Health & Safety
Once a floor finish shows signs of damage and needs repair the schools need to act fast to remedy the problem. Obviously, slips and falls are a concern due to damaged flooring but there are also health concerns. In schools, asbestos adhesives were commonly used in building materials and have been found underneath flooring systems such as carpet, VCT, and tile. If these floors finishes are damaged or deteriorating the small particles of asbestos underneath if disturbed can be released into the air. This should be a school’s primary concern. If the existing tile is fully intact Everlast Industrial Flooring has commercial epoxy flooring solutions that will adhere to the existing tile floor without disrupting the asbestos underneath. This is a great option if the removal of asbestos is not an option.
When it comes to school flooring the utmost importance is safety and hygiene. In any environment where there are large crowds of people, common colds and viruses can spread. Our seamless floors say goodbye to hard-to-clean grout lines that harbor bacteria and dirt and they can be disinfected easily making them extremely hygienic surfaces. Epoxy flooring has easy-to-clean smooth surfaces that can be disinfected thoroughly. In addition, epoxy floors are designed to be water-tight so no contaminants can get underneath the floor and harbor mildew and bacteria.
Benefits of Epoxy Flooring in Schools
- Cleaning and Maintenance cost
- Durability
- Installation Cost
- Longevity
- Hygienic, sanitary and easy to clean.
- Skid and slip resistant for safety
- Meets USDA, FDA and CFIA standards
- High Chemical and abrasion resistant
- Moisture tolerant
- Aesthetics
What is good for the floors is good for the walls and ceilings!
Seamless floors can be tied into the walls by installing coving or resinous wall systems. This creates a truly seamless environment for increased sanitation. Epoxy wall coatings are frequently used in facilities where health and safety are of utmost importance and will help ensure that a building’s environment can be kept to the highest possible standard of hygiene. Our epoxy walls systems are seamless and do not harbor bacteria and are resistant to moisture that leads to dangerous mold. Our epoxy wall systems work particularly well over concrete walls as well as drywall, cement board, CMU, tile, and previously coated walls.
Ideal Installation
Summer break is an ideal time to get school facility renovations started in both higher learning institutions and K-12 schools.