SPORTS FLOORING
KEEP FIT
Ensuring that a sports floor is kept in tip-top shape is vital in terms of both aesthetics and safety. Here, Traffik UK Ltd discusses how the leisure industry can benefit from surface refurbishment and renewal rather than replacement.
An indoor sporting venue is only as good as its surface and, with the ever growing interest in sporting activity in the UK, more and more schools, local authority sports centres and professional sporting clubs are finding it increasingly difficult to maintain their sports hall flooring to the exacting standards required.
The wear and tear of activities such as basketball, indoor football, gymnastics and exercise group work-outs means that these surfaces experience frequent and intensive usage with the floors suffering from ugly scratches and scuffs, and court markings becoming worn and broken. Safety is also a major factor with uneven surfaces the cause of injury as well as potentially expensive law suits. In most cases the natural reaction is to think about replacement which is both costly and involves long-term interruption of the use of the facility.
Replacement however, is only one option in these days of economic uncertainty and environmental concerns with huge amounts of unwanted flooring now going into landfill sites across the UK. There is ever increasing demand for us all to adopt a more sustainable approach to the running and operation of our businesses and so the refurbishment of existing flooring is the obvious solution.
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For the past 20 years Traffik UK Ltd has been one of the UK’s foremost exponents of the refurbishment and maintenance of all types of flooring. Now, following the company’s partnership with Dr Schutz, global supplier of permanent floor finishes and maintenance systems, the company is ideally placed to offer the UK sports and leisure industry an unrivalled service in the refurbishment and care of sports hall flooring.
A BRAND NEW WEAR LAYER THAT WILL COMPLETELY
TRANSFORM FLOORING Traffik, using Dr Schutz’s revolutionary PU Design System, can refurbish and renew any resilient hard floor at a fraction of a conventional replacement system. The company can resurface sports hall flooring with a new wear layer, recolour and replace line markings and even incorporate club logos and crests into the floor surface. All work carried out is in accordance with Din 18032, making surfaces safe as well as looking their best.
The recoating and hermetically sealing of existing floors with a liquid PU vinyl, that is up to 10 times thicker than the original wear surface of a factory vinyl sheet, is of huge importance when one considers the wear and tear inflicted upon sports
hall flooring. Dr Schutz’s PU is available in either a clear replacement coat, to maintain the original appearance, or a coloured coat to create a new dynamic feel and provides cost savings of up to 60% over the replacement option. All Traffik’s services ensure a minimal downtime - turning unsafe and unsightly surfaces into safer BS compliant floors, providing a range of cost effective benefits including anti mark, anti slip and anti static solutions, all of which are simple to maintain.
The Traffik service also means sports halls are not out of commission for lengthy replacement work. Refurbishment can take place in a matter of days with work being undertaken overnight so loss of valuable income and closure of the facility is kept to a minimum.
This means that the Traffik system is ideal for not only sports venues, but also for high traffic areas of the retail sector, hospitals’ offices, schools, restaurants and hotels.
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