More often than not, the part of your building that customers notice first upon entering is your floor. Clean, tidy floors with well-kept entrance matting gives clients an impression of care; they suggest that your facility prioritizes appearance and make the customer experience a priority. On the other hand, dirty floors and sloppy mats can have the opposite effect - if the areas your customers can see look shoddy and badly-kept, how bad must things be in...
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How much destructive dirt and grit does YOUR entrance mat trap?
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This much dirt fell out of a 2-year-old Grizzly FX mat after we turned it face-down on the floor...and that's after it had already been professionally cleaned once! These 7'0 " x 7'0" mats are in service at Lonsdale Quay in North Vancouver, a moderate-to-high traffic public market retail space.
This amount of dirt is typical for a main entrance to a large...
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When most people think about commercial entrance mats, they typically picture something like this:
A bog-standard mat. It sort of fits, sort of doesn't, but that's the closest 'standard size' the distributor had to offer. It's kinda ugly, but not offensively so. It usually flops over when people have walked in and needs to be fixed at least a couple of times a day. It doesn't really do much cleaning, but it's at least a little better...
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At first blush, you wouldn't think an entrance mat at your building's lobby and a cutting board on your kitchen countertop would have anything in common. But set aside their physical properties, and let's look at functionality for a moment.
Which one is the item that:
you use to protect an expensive-to-replace surface against damage from normal, everyday use,
is a sacrificial surface that takes the brunt of wear and tear,
and is far easier to replace...
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Personal service businesses - like hairdressers, nail salons, and sun tanning studios - have been hit particularly hard by the COVID-19 pandemic, and getting back on their feet is going to be a real challenge! That's partly due to the close physical quarters these sorts of services require, and partly because these services have to make their customers feel good along with looking good.
Those customer good feelings start with a feeling of safety and security as they...
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Grocery stores are one of those essential services that have remained open throughout the entire pandemic, and they're one of the few retail locations that everybody has to visit at some point. And just as grocery stores are uniquely necessary, they've also got unique needs when it comes to flooring - and especially sanitizing mats, for one big reason:
Grocery stores especially need sanitizing mats for the actual disinfecting action, AND for good customer optics.
Food-focused retailers know that cleanliness...
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Now that offices and businesses are starting to reopen, many parents are beginning to need daytime childcare again and daycare facilities are starting to reopen. With nearly every child coming in from a different household, daycares are particularly vulnerable to becoming a hot spot for coronavirus transmission as parents enter and leave to drop off and pick up their children.
The one common touchpoint that absolutely every parent and child comes into contact with is the floor...and...
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A recent article published in the Globe & Mail states that many retailers that were forced to close during the height of the coronavirus pandemic may be facing steeply increased liability insurance premiums as they start to reopen. Many of these businesses that were forced to close cancelled their insurance coverage to save operating funds, and are now facing steeply increased insurance costs now that they're restarting operations.
Canadian insurance companies are considering the risk of viral...
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Everybody's familiar with social distancing and physical distancing these days - and with the fight against COVID-19 still raging on, these concepts are here to stay.
As a quick response to the need to keep people physically separated, many businesses have improvised to help their customers get the message. Some - like this takeout sandwich restaurant - have even printed custom stickers to put on their floor to show their customers where to line up for service.
These...
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Although we're a commercial flooring & matting company, we've gotten a lot of inquiries in the last few weeks from customers who want to know if they can use Grizzly Sanitize at home. The answer is...
Yes, you can!
Grizzly Sanitize is particularly well-suited for use in residential settings as well as commercial applications. Unlike open-tray plastic or moulded-rubber sanitizing mats on the market, Grizzly Sanitize has an appealing carpet-like appearance that doesn't look like something belonging in...
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As part of a controlled, safe restart of normal operations, the Provincial Health Officer and WorkSafeBC have issued guidelines for how workplaces can manage the risk of spreading COVID-19 as people return to workplaces and retail businesses reopen. Although these guidelines are intended to cover most circumstances, they're not a definitive list. Harry Bains, the BC Minister of Labour, urged businesses to develop their own processes and safety plans based off of provincial guidelines.
“The guidelines were...
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Cleaning and disinfecting are part of a broad approach to preventing infectious diseases in public settings. To help slow the spread of COVID-19 and other infectious diseases individuals should stay home when sick, cover coughs and sneezes, and wash hands often. Below are tips on how to reduce the spread of COVID-19 specifically through cleaning and disinfecting.
Cleaning removes germs, dirt, and impurities from surfaces or objects. Cleaning works by using soap (or detergent) and water to...
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