It’s one of the most common questions we face, especially from condo and apartment building managers. They need entrance matting to trap the dirt and water coming into their building, but they have wall-to-wall carpet right up to the front door. Can they put an entrance mat on top of the carpet? You can put your mat anywhere you like…but if it’s on top of carpet, it won't stay there for long! The reason why your mat...
Does your commercial space need a freshening-up, but there's no renovation room in this year's capital expenditure budget? No problem! Leasing your flooring - rather than an outright purchase - has a lot of advantages that are frequently overlooked. Here's the top 7 reasons that you should consider financing your flooring renovation through a lease: 1. Leasing Protects Cash Flow When you finance your renovations through leasing, it allows you to spread out the acquisition cost of your...
Here's the top 3 reasons why building operators use custom elevator mats in their buildings: 1. Dry, clean, safe floors. Elevators often have tile (or other hard surface) flooring, which is great for durability - and not so great for dealing with puddles of standing water! On rainy days, visitors to your building stand in your elevators and drip, drip, drip on your floors from their shoes, their coats, and their umbrellas. Elevator mats help keep puddled water...
It's a common terminology mistake that we see all the time. Clients use the words "carpet" and "mat" interchangeably when talking about their front entrance...but the actual meaning of those terms couldn't be more different! Equating a commercial carpet with a proper commercial entrance mat is like equating a high heel shoe and a gumboot - although they're both footwear, they obviously serve very different functions in very different ways, and they're definitely not interchangeable! Carpet's top...
When it's time to replace the carpeting in your office or commercial space, many people looking to stretch their budget focus on the cost of the carpet material itself. While it's true that the cost of the carpet itself does greatly contribute to the overall cost of the project, the installation and assorted other labour components can add up to be just as much as the carpet itself! Here's the six main components that make up...
Governments worldwide are working on detailed plans for the “new normal” of life during - and after - COVID-19. Although different regions may be in different phases, it's good business to plan ahead and be ready for what's ahead. Here in BC, the provincial government has released a multi-phase plan for restarting the economy and these plans put the onus on individual businesses to plot their path forward safely, responsibly, and carefully. As businesses begin planning for...
The warehouse is one of the most unglamourous - but most necessary! - parts of business operations. The top priority for most warehouse floors is durability: a warehouse floor needs to stand up to extra heavy duty traffic from people, pallet jacks, forklifts, and pallets and stacks of inventory. Most warehouse floors require a flooring choice that isn't vulnerable to chipping, cracking, or pick-up from hot tires on forklifts or vehicles. Forklifts are incredibly hard on...
As of last week (July 3, 2020), WorkSafeBC has levied COVID-19 related Health & Safety orders against 334 businesses here in BC - with nearly a third of them being against service industry businesses. Hair salons, schools, hospitals, gyms, hotels, restaurants, and other similar service industry businesses have accounted for 104 of WorkSafeBC's recent H&S orders due to inadequate responses to COVID-19 protocols. The next most-common offending industry is manufacturing with 82 orders issued, which includes meat processing, breweries,...
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...
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...
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...
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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We're commercial floorcovering specialists. We create custom logo and large entrance matting solutions for property management companies, office towers, condominiums, shopping malls, airports, and retailers. We sell and install commercial carpet and carpet tile, vinyl and resilient flooring, and athletic rubber floors.
115 – 1680 Broadway Street
Port Coquitlam BC
V3C 2M8
Phone:604 477 4455 🇨🇦
Fax:604 477 4455
Email:info@sourcefloor.com
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