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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Slip-and-fall accidents are one of the leading causes of serious personal injuries in Canada. In 2016-2017, there were nearly 9000 hospitalizations in Canada due to falls on slippery surfaces! Falls are a significant cause of injuries, accounting for 34% of injury-related total hospitalizations in Canada, with the most common fall-related injuries being wrist and ankle fractures and head trauma. But some people are more vulnerable to being hurt by a fall on a slippery surface, particularly those...
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Rental mat services sound like a great idea at first...somebody drops off some launderable entrance mats at your retail store or office building, and then picks them up and swaps them out periodically with "new" ones. They take the old ones away, wash them, and bring them back the next time they're out to service your location.
But what good are mats that don't actually do anything?
We've all seen mats like this, but have a look at these...
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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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We often get asked about the maintenance required for large commercial entrance mats - how much, how often, what's required, etc. And the easy answer is...there is no easy answer!
Imagine that your entrance matting is like putting a bucket under the hole in a leaky roof in a rainstorm: the more it rains, the sooner it fills up. The frequency in which maintenance is necessary is dependent on how much service that mat (or bucket!) is...
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Custom entrance matting is important for any business that serves the public, but it's especially important for franchisees who have to maintain brand standards! Here's five good reasons why franchise owners should use custom entrance mats:
Increase brand recognition. You're paying for the rights to use a recognized brand through your franchise fees - why not take maximum advantage of those rights and leverage that brand to the fullest? A custom logo mat can help reinforce...
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While most people think of the front door when they think about commercial floor matting, did you know that you can also use matting to highlight potential trip hazards?
The most common trip-and-fall point in commercial buildings is the transitions between different areas with different flooring surfaces. Walking from carpeting to tile, or from asphalt to linoleum, or any other change from one surface to another with a different coefficient of friction is a breeding ground for...
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I recently spotted in the wild a perfect example of what typically goes wrong with entrance matting at retail stores. This particular retailer (who shall remain nameless!) has its entrance into the store directly from the street (outdoors) - there is no vestibule or transition from outside to inside.
So where have they gone wrong here? Let's take a look:
Too small! They've used an off-the-shelf standard size mat for their entrance, and you can see just...
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Although entrance matting is less likely to harbor unwanted pests than standard carpeting, it is still a potential entryway for ticks, fleas and other creepy-crawlies that are carried into your building on service animals or people’s clothing. Custodial departments should treat entrance matting the same way they treat carpeting when controlling pest infestations. As with carpeting, the first line of defense in preventing or reducing pest infestations is daily vacuuming.
Using vacuums equipped with a beater brush...
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