School and university flooring

There are many internal areas in your school that have different flooring needs. Common factors include durability, slip-resistance, and liquid and chemical resistance. Here’s a breakdown of each site.

Classrooms are where your students will spend the majority of their time. A visually boring room won’t do a lot to hold their attention. The floors in your classrooms should be inviting, visually pleasing, and comfortable. Durability isn’t as important as the visual aspects here. It would also be best if your floor is easy to keep clean. Trust us; your maintenance staff will thank you! Standard flooring solutions for these areas include:

Mechanically polished concrete. This is the most aesthetically appealing polished concrete solution that we offer. When you choose a high-gloss finish, the floor is reflective and shimmering like glass. It’s an elegant look that will add sophistication to your classrooms. It’s also extremely durable and resistant to liquids and chemicals. Mechanically polished concrete is also effortless to keep clean.

The benefits don’t stop there, though. Due to the sheen of the surface, it will carry and bounce around ambient light. That means you can light your classrooms whilst minimizing electricity costs. Not only that, but polished concrete has thermal properties. Your floor will absorb heat during the day and slowly release it at night. As a result, you can save a ton of money on your heating and electricity bill!

Epoxy Flake Floors and Metallic Epoxy. These two epoxy solutions are highly decorative and appealing. Thus, they’re perfect for classrooms! An epoxy coating is tough, resilient, and shiny. An epoxy flake floor contains colored vinyl chips in the mix. You can customize the shape and color of these chips based on your preference.

Metallic epoxy contains metallic pigments in the mix. These can create dazzling swirls, clouds, and other patterns. Your students are sure to love metallic epoxy floors! They’re a great way to add intrigue and mystique to your classrooms!

Your hallways and common areas are going to see the most foot traffic. They’re also going to be the most extended stretches of flooring in your facility. For this reason, flooring that’s easy to clean is an absolute must. Here are the best flooring solutions for hallways from My Floor:

Grind and Seal Polished Concrete. Grind and seal systems are similar to mechanically polished concrete. They achieve a similar look and also have the same benefits. The difference lies in the polishing process itself. For mechanically polished concrete, the concrete itself is what gets polished. We add a sealant to the top of the surface for grind and seal, and that’s what gets polished. Due to this top coating, we can add slip-resistance to grind and seal floors. For this reason, they’re great for hallways! Grind and seal floors are durable, easy to clean, and are visually pleasing.

Epoxy Coatings and Floors. As previously mentioned, epoxy floors are very durable and hard. They’re also effortless to keep clean and are slip-resistant. All of our epoxy solutions are ideal candidates for hallway floors.

Gyms have heavy equipment and see tons of foot traffic. Here are our top solutions at MyFloor for these areas:

Epoxy Coatings. Epoxy is slip-resistant, durable, and easy to keep clean. It’s got everything that you would want out of a gymnasium floor. If you’d like a more decorative option, you could use an epoxy flake floor or metallic epoxy.

Grind and Seal Polished Concrete. Grind and seal systems are ideal for gyms instead of mechanically polished concrete. That’s because you can add slip-resistance to grind and seal floors. You want to make sure that your students stay safe while exercising!

Now that you know which flooring solutions are best for indoors, let’s look at the outdoors. After all, every school and university has external areas as well as internal areas. Your flooring matters a lot here, too, so let’s take a look at what’s best!

Does your school have a basketball court or any other recreation area? If so, then you need to consider which type of concrete to use. Traditional concrete has many downsides that can cause problems. These include:

• Cracks and stains easily
• Creates dust
• Gets very slippery when wet

As you can see, traditional concrete is not the way to go for your basketball court. If students fall and get hurt, your school could face legal action. That’s why we recommend:

• Hone and Seal Polished Concrete. Hone and seal concrete systems are perfect for the outdoors. The impregnating sealer that we use seeps down into the concrete instead of laying on top. This adds increased durability and resistance to the concrete. Not only that, but it’s 100% anti-slip. No student will have any trouble playing basketball on a hone and seal system! Hone and seal floors are also non-porous, so they won’t accumulate liquids or bacteria. A hone and seal system will also be able to withstand heavy impacts and foot traffic with ease.

You want your outdoor entrance to look classy, be durable, and to stay clean. Here are the flooring solutions that we recommend from My Floor:

Hone and Seal Polished Concrete. As previously mentioned, this is the ideal external concrete solution. Hone and seal systems are:

• Durable
• Chemically resistant
• Easy to keep clean
• Non-slip
• Decorative looking

As you can see, hone and seal concrete systems check all the boxes for outdoor areas.

Concrete Resurfacing. Finally, concrete resurfacing is an excellent solution for external areas. This is a thin cement overlay that we install over existing concrete. It contains special bonding agents that add resistance and durability. It’s also very smooth and visually appealing. This is a more affordable option for outdoor areas!