{"id":1287,"date":"2018-12-20T02:33:42","date_gmt":"2018-12-20T02:33:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/covinatilecleaning.com\/?p=1287"},"modified":"2018-12-22T01:14:36","modified_gmt":"2018-12-22T01:14:36","slug":"matting-programs-protect-floors-and-facility-occupants","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/covinatilecleaning.com\/matting-programs-protect-floors-and-facility-occupants\/","title":{"rendered":"Matting Programs Protect Floors And Facility Occupants"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<style type=\"text\/css\" data-created_by=\"avia_inline_auto\" id=\"style-css-av-av_one_full-25347b0a799d5b9f7058434b2a9c3182\">\n.flex_column.av-av_one_full-25347b0a799d5b9f7058434b2a9c3182{\n-webkit-border-radius:0px 0px 0px 0px;\n-moz-border-radius:0px 0px 0px 0px;\nborder-radius:0px 0px 0px 0px;\npadding:0px 0px 0px 0px;\n}\n<\/style>\n<div  class='flex_column av-av_one_full-25347b0a799d5b9f7058434b2a9c3182 av_one_full  avia-builder-el-0  avia-builder-el-no-sibling  first flex_column_div av-zero-column-padding  '     ><p>\n<style type=\"text\/css\" data-created_by=\"avia_inline_auto\" id=\"style-css-av-jpvzreei-32d87a694f39ee625015dd31496e7165\">\n#top .av-special-heading.av-jpvzreei-32d87a694f39ee625015dd31496e7165{\npadding-bottom:10px;\n}\nbody .av-special-heading.av-jpvzreei-32d87a694f39ee625015dd31496e7165 .av-special-heading-tag .heading-char{\nfont-size:25px;\n}\n.av-special-heading.av-jpvzreei-32d87a694f39ee625015dd31496e7165 .av-subheading{\nfont-size:15px;\n}\n<\/style>\n<div  class='av-special-heading av-jpvzreei-32d87a694f39ee625015dd31496e7165 av-special-heading-h2 blockquote modern-quote modern-centered  avia-builder-el-1  el_before_av_textblock  avia-builder-el-first '><h2 class='av-special-heading-tag'  itemprop=\"headline\"  >Matting Programs Protect Floors And Facility Occupants<\/h2><div class=\"special-heading-border\"><div class=\"special-heading-inner-border\"><\/div><\/div><\/div><br \/>\n<section  class='av_textblock_section av-jpvzq16q-bac245666e6880bfc70f7d98420f1e6c '   itemscope=\"itemscope\" itemtype=\"https:\/\/schema.org\/BlogPosting\" itemprop=\"blogPost\" ><div class='avia_textblock'  itemprop=\"text\" ><p>Dirt is a fact of life. It\u2019s also an expensive problem for facility<img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-1288 alignright\" src=\"https:\/\/covinatilecleaning.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/FCD1118-Matting-300x167.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"167\" srcset=\"https:\/\/covinatilecleaning.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/FCD1118-Matting-300x167.jpg 300w, https:\/\/covinatilecleaning.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/FCD1118-Matting.jpg 450w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/>departments.<\/p>\n<p>It costs more than $500 to remove just one pound of dirt after it\u2019s tracked throughout a building. That may not sound like a lot of money, but consider this: 1,000 people coming through an entrance over a 20-day period can bring with them 24 pounds of dirt. That $12,000 in cleaning costs.<\/p>\n<p>The good news? There\u2019s a way to minimize dirt in a facility. Entrance matting acts as a first line of defense, preventing as much as 80 percent of dirt from accumulating. That means an investment of a few hundred dollars could reduce those cleaning costs to $2,400.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe more soil you trap at the entrances, the cleaner your building will stay,\u201d says Steve Spencer of\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.stevespencerconsulting.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Spencer Consulting<\/a>, and former facilities specialist at State Farm Insurance. \u201cMats are a very positive addition to the building.\u201d<\/p>\n<h3>Choosing The Right Matting<\/h3>\n<p>About 80 percent of the soil in a building comes from outside, tracked in on people\u2019s shoes. How much matting does it take to collect and stop all that dirt? Experts agree that facility cleaning managers should create a \u201cwalk-off area\u201d that includes exterior and interior mats. Exactly how long this area should be is up for some debate.<\/p>\n<p>On the high end, Spencer suggests 35 to 40 total feet of matting.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThat will collect over 90 percent of the soil that\u2019s coming in from outside, whether wet or dry,\u201d he says.<\/p>\n<p>A slightly lower number comes from Bill Fellows, owner of\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.fellowscustodialconsulting.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Fellows Custodial Consulting<\/a>\u00a0and author of\u00a0<em>Creating Your Place In The Cleaning Industry<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAn exterior scraper or wiper mat should be followed by a minimum of 10 feet of a walk-off matting,\u201d he says.<\/p>\n<p>Offering a more general rule of thumb,\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/seal360consulting.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Seal 360<\/a>Consultant Skip Seal, LEED AP, ICE-GB, says, \u201cYou want enough of each type of matting for a person\u2019s foot to hit twice. That length changes from an elementary school to a basketball stadium.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Seal recommends basing mat length on the tallest people in the building. They will have the largest feet and will track in the most dirt.<\/p>\n<p>Whatever guidelines managers choose, the most important thing to remember is that carpet is not an acceptable substitute for matting.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cDon\u2019t let your carpet become a walk-off mat,\u201d Seal says. \u201cYou can\u2019t lift it up, clean it and wash it out.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>As to what type of matting a facility to should install, the experts agree. Ideally, every building should have three types: A scraper (typically located outside, but it may need to go in the foyer in an urban area with sidewalks), a scraper\/wiper (inside, often in a vestibule) and finally a wiper mat (inside).<\/p>\n<p>Matting can also be useful at transition points, such as entrances into gymnasiums, as well as in food service areas or other spots prone to moisture. The mats will protect the floors from tracked dirt, but they will also prevent slip, trips and falls.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/section><\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/covinatilecleaning.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1287"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/covinatilecleaning.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/covinatilecleaning.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/covinatilecleaning.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/covinatilecleaning.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1287"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/covinatilecleaning.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1287\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1290,"href":"https:\/\/covinatilecleaning.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1287\/revisions\/1290"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/covinatilecleaning.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1287"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/covinatilecleaning.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1287"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/covinatilecleaning.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1287"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}