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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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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We're thrilled to announce Grizzly Sanitize - our way to help fight the spread of COVID-19 in public spaces. Grizzly Sanitize is a sanitizing mat system to help disinfect the shoes of people entering your public space on their way in the door.
Grizzly Sanitize:
stops people from bringing COVID-19 (and other germs, viruses, and bacteria) into your building on their shoes
uses the quaternary sanitizers you already have on hand - no proprietary chemicals required!
is...
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We get asked this question all the time: what's the difference between inlaid and printed logo mats?
The answer?  Everything!
Printed mats are as simple as they sound: they start out as "clear", undyed material, and are sprayed by specialty inkjet printers to splatter your logo onto the surface of the fibres. Your logo image sits on the tops of the fibres like desktop printer ink on a piece of paper, and leaves the balance of the fibre still...
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Client often ask us how long they can expect their commercial entrance mats to last in crowded places like airports and malls. The quick answer is: "For as long as you'll take care of them!"Â
When you're starting off on the right foot with a high-quality, commercial-grade entrance mat, you're setting yourself up for success. But just like any product that performs a service or a function, the performance of that product is directly reflected in the amount...
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We hope you are safe and healthy.
We hope you’re keeping safe in these unprecedented times. Although we’re working remotely right now, the Source Floor team is still available to help you with your flooring and entrance matting needs.
All of us here at Source Floor want to thank you in advance for sticking with us through these next few difficult weeks (or months) to come. In times like this, it’s especially clear that we really are all...
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Smart businesspeople know that making a good first impression is hugely important. They think about everything that their customers see: from their signage, to their choice of furniture and fixtures, even the colour of the walls is chosen with care.
So why do so many stop at the floor?
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Your main entrance is the first point of contact your customers make with your business. Make that first impression a good one with a high-quality entrance mat, like Grizzly...
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Grizzly FX is a super heavy-duty, premium quality commercial entrance matting product - but don't take our word for it. We can prove it!
We had Grizzly FX lab tested by Professional Testing Laboratory Inc., a totally independent professional lab in Dalton, GA (the "Carpet Capital of the World"). We subjected Grizzly FX to the lab equivalent of 20,000 units of foot traffic under the ASTM D6119 testing methodology ("Creating Surface Appearance Changes in Pile Yarn Floor Covering from...
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Choosing the right entrance mats for your hotel doesn't need to be complicated or difficult - but it can be tough to navigate on your own! Scraper mats, dryer mats, polypropylene vs nylon vs PVC - there's a lot to choose from!
Ideally, a perfect entrance matting system for a hotel (or any other public-facing business with ingress from the outdoors) would use a three-stage entrance matting system:
First Stage: deployed fully outdoors, aggressive scraping action, maximum...
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Your entrance mats are the first point of actual contact that your guests have with your hotel. They they don't touch your parking lot and landscaping, they don't touch your automatic doors, but they do touch your entrance matting - even if it's only with their feet. Sturdy, commercial-grade mats make a good first impression...and rental-grade throw-down mats get bunched up and snagged in suitcase wheels, annoying your guests from the start.
How do you make your mats pop? ...
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