Found a new stain on your commercial carpet or entry mats? Here's six quick tips for effective stain removal:
Act fast! The fresher the stain, the easier it is to remove. Start working on removing stains as quickly as you can.
Blot, don't rub! Use absorbent, dry white cloths or clean sponges to blot the stain. Don't rub the stain - rubbing only grinds the contaminant further into the carpet fibres. Use a white cloth so...
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When it comes to floor care, building operators and maintenance crews shouldn't underestimate the importance of entryway flooring and entrance matting.
“There are certain areas of the building you need to pay close attention to; number 1 is the entryway,” says Teresa Farmer, sustainability consultant at Kelsan Inc., in Knoxville TN. “Your entryway sets the standard for how clean visitors think the building is.”
Deploying 12 to 15 feet of scraper entrance matting outside a building entrance, and a...
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Commercial grade carpet tiles are an exciting flooring solution, because they can be installed directly on top of almost any preexisting flooring—instantly transforming the look and feel of your workspace. Tiles are faster to install than standard carpet, and easier to clean and maintain than tile or wood. As a commercial product, they are also stain resistant, fade resistant, and made from durable fibers designed to keep up with your high footstep areas. Since installed as...
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You know you need to add floor mats with strategic placing throughout your building or business. Quality rugs and mats are an investment that you are happy to make to improve safety and comfort, protect flooring, and even to increase your employee productivity. But is it worth getting personalized door mats for your business?
Think Beyond The Obvious Placement
Entryways, lobbies, and employee work stations are some of the most common places to add floor mats. However, when...
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If you are going to add custom made rugs to your business, why not add your logo too? Whether placed at your entryways, work stations, POS, or as runners in high footstep areas—the benefits to adding your logo to your rugs and floor mats are many.
Free Marketing And Advertising
Anytime you can get your logo out there, the better! However, you must get creative when thinking of where you can place your floor mats. Your business is...
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Two of the most common words we use when describing an upcoming flooring job are "flat and smooth". Â But what exactly does "flat and smooth" mean?
The foremost rule of thumb when it comes to installed flooring is that whatever you start with is what you finish with - and that goes double for your subfloor prep work! Â Whenever it's time to install a new floor into a space, the subfloor (that is, the unfinished flooring substrate...
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Commercial floors come in a bewildering variety of floorcovering types and styles - carpets, resilients, and specialty hard surfaces all offer selections that are suitable for commercial applications. Many of the visitors we receive on our website have come here searching for "commercial floors" - but what exactly makes a floor "commercial"? The answer to that question varies with each available type of commercial floor.
Commercial-grade carpet differs from residential carpet in several factors. The first is...
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We're very excited to present a new option for our matting customers: lease-to-own! We've partnered with a national financial services company to offer our clients a new, more flexible way to enjoy the benefits of Grizzly FX and Kermode premium entrance matting.
Benefits of Leasing:
Leasing Protects Your Cash Flow:
With leasing, you can spread out the acquisition cost of your entrance matting and flooring over its working lifespan, freeing up valuable capital to manage your business.
 100% Financing:
In...
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One of the most common issues commercial and institutional clients approach us with is the need for wall and corner protection. In areas where durability against impact damage is needed – whether from hospital beds, unruly shopping carts or anything in between –Acrovyn products by C/S Construction Specialties are the best way to prevent damage to your building’s walls and wall edges.
Protect Your Space, Preserve Your Good Looks
Protecting your space against impact damage doesn’t mean you...
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Prospect or Passer-by?
Winning new “fans” of your business or products when exhibiting at a trade show takes planning. Show organizers create the opportunity and the environment, but it’s up to each exhibitor to get creative and develop a noticeable presence on the floor. Even if your purpose for exhibiting is to recruit new staff, or to network within your industry, a strong brand presence and eye-catching display will always leave a lasting first impression.
With a comprehensive...
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In spaces where it seems like only a hard-surface flooring solution makes sense – whether due to high traffic, frequent soiling and spills, or constant sunlight exposure – don’t count out carpet just yet. Solution dyed nylon carpets can match many of the resilient properties of hard surface flooring, with all of the advantages of carpet: low maintenance costs, improved sound dampening, high levels of comfort and safety and, of course, good looks!
Solution dyeing: the carrot...
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Broadloom carpet, as the name implies, is woven on a very wide loom. Most commonly shipped and installed in 12-foot wide large rolls, this type of carpet is still the most commonly used for wall-to-wall carpeting in both commercial and residential applications.
Carpet tiles - also known as modular carpet or carpet squares- are exactly that: square, modular tiles of carpeting, with an integrated backing material and base. Carpet tiles have become increasingly popular in high-traffic commercial...
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