EDUCATION

From first bell to final buzzer.

A school floor takes three thousand pairs of shoes a day, chair scrapes by the hour and a cleaning regime that never quite ends. We specify resilient flooring for education across Florida and New England — chosen for indoor air quality, colorfast durability and installations that fit inside a summer break.

School stairwell with blue resilient flooring and full-height glazing
Three thousand pairs of shoes a day, and a stair that shrugs them off.
22
Years specifying commercial interiors
1
Summer break — the installation window
10
Year colorfast guarantee
1
Account executive dedicated to your project, spec to closeout
01 — THE BRIEF
01

Indoor air quality

Every line we specify for schools is low-VOC and FloorScore-certified — the least toxic floor coverings available, for the people who breathe the building eight hours a day.

02

Color that keeps up

A ten-year colorfast guarantee: colors that will not fade over time, with custom school colors and mascot inlays available.

03

No-wax maintenance

Custodial hours are the scarcest resource in a district budget. No-wax surfaces need no sealers, no polish and no stripping cycles.

04

The summer window

Reflooring has to fit between the last bell of June and the first of August. We plan phasing, cure times and furniture moves around the academic calendar.

02 — ROOM BY ROOM

One campus, ten kinds of wear.

Classrooms
01 — CLASSROOMS

Classroom design measurably shapes how students learn. Acoustics, air quality and low maintenance decide the specification before color ever enters the conversation.

Design tip — Muted tones calm a room and help it hold focus.

Most specified: Texas Granite · Sonata Elements

School dining hall with long tables on a resilient floor
02 — CAFETERIAS

Lunch is the least of it — cafeterias host study halls, assemblies and everything after hours. Indentation and scratch resistance matter where a hundred chairs move at once.

Most specified: Texas Granite

Hallways
03 — HALLWAYS

Constant heavy traffic, scratches and scuffs — and the school’s best canvas. Custom colors and mascot logos can be built directly into the floor.

Design tip — Your dedicated account executive can walk logo inlays and custom school colors through the design process.

Most specified: Texas Granite · ABPure

School library reading table and stacks beside floor-to-ceiling windows
04 — LIBRARIES

Sound dampening makes the study space. Vinyl and rubber have been steadily replacing carpet, which shows every spill and traffic pattern; these surfaces don’t.

Most specified: Evolution

Labs
05 — LABS

Chemical and stain resistance, seamless installation to keep germs out of joints, and static-dissipative options to protect equipment and experiments.

Most specified: Texas Granite · Electrotile

Locker room benches and lockers over a seamless resilient floor
06 — LOCKER ROOMS

The highest bar for infection control: no-wax, antimicrobial materials, heat-welded and flash-coved where bare feet meet the floor.

Design tip — Non-porous, antibacterial surfaces minimize staph risk.

07 — PLAYGROUNDS

Rated for a fall from the top of the slide.

Commercial rubber safety surfacing under jungle gyms and swing sets — engineered impact attenuation that keeps play equipment compliant and knees intact.

Most specified: PlayTiles

Stairwells
08 — STAIRWELLS

Stair treads carry the safety brief: durable, slip-resistant surfaces in patterns and colors that belong to the building rather than interrupt it.

Design tip — Ask your dedicated account executive for a sample chain set.

Gyms
09 — GYMS

Rubber tile for the weight room and cardio floor — and court systems tuned for ball bounce, shock absorption and slip resistance.

Most specified: Sports Floor Plus · Next Step High Impact

Campus circulation route on a polished terrazzo-look floor
10 — MEDIA CENTERS & ELECTRONICS LABS

The modern campus runs on electronics — media centers, robotics labs, the server closet behind the library. Electrotile has carried static safely to ground since 1965: a terrazzo-look ESD tile with a lifetime warranty on conductivity, maintained with a dry buff and never a coat of wax.

Most specified: Electrotile static dissipative & conductive

Before September
A floor that survives the school year is specified before the summer starts.
03 — MATERIALS

Four families, specified to the standard.

Luxury vinyl tile
LUXURY VINYL TILE & PLANK

Wood and stone visuals with 20 to 30 mil wear layers (Mirra 30, Sonata and Sonata Elements 20) — classroom warmth built for corridor traffic.

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SOLID & SHEET VINYL

The workhorses: no-wax solid vinyl tested to ASTM F970 static load for cafeterias and corridors, static-dissipative tile for labs, and heat-welded sheet where hygiene and acoustics carry the brief.

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Rubber flooring
RUBBER

Quiet, resilient and low-VOC — from library floors to playground safety surfacing, including, per American Biltrite, the only rubber to pass ASTM F1515 for color durability.

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Sports flooring
SPORTS & EXERCISE
Grabo Sport · Next Step High Impact · Next Step Extreme

Court systems tuned for ball response and shock absorption, and high-impact rubber for the strength room.

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CREDENTIALS
FloorScore certification markVOC emissions · RFCI
LEED®Contributing credits · USGBC
ecoScorecardPublished product data
10 yrColorfast guarantee

In place in K–12 districts across Florida and New England.

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04 — HOW A PROJECT RUNS
01

Consultation

It starts in your design library or with a walk of the campus — your dedicated account executive takes the brief room by room, corridor by corridor, with live finishes in hand rather than a catalog.

02

Sampling

Full-size samples in your school colors, with documentation ready for the district’s spec book.

03

Summer scheduling

Working with your preferred commercial flooring contractors, the schedule is built around the academic calendar — most projects go in over a single summer break.

04

Post-install walkthrough

Post-install the floor is walked, signed off and warranted, and maintenance recommendations are issued in writing. We meet with your custodial and EVS teams so the floor is cleaned the way the warranty expects — same contact from day one.

START A PROJECT

Every project starts with a conversation.

One dedicated account executive carries your project from first walkthrough to final punch list — samples, phasing and everything between.

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