Commercial Flooring

Offices, suites and light commercial spaces across Licking and Franklin County. Commercial flooring is a scheduling problem as much as a flooring one, so we visit the site, work out what can be done in which order, and fit the work around when your business is actually open.

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Commercial work

The floor is rarely the hard part

Downtime costs more than the material
On a commercial job the flooring is a manageable expense and the closure is not. A suite that cannot be used for three days costs more than the difference between two carpet specifications, which is why the sequence matters more than almost anything else in the quote.
So we start with the calendar. Which areas can be closed and when, whether work can run in the evening or across a weekend, whether the space can be done in phases so half of it stays open. Those answers change the plan, and they are worth establishing before anybody talks about product.
Specification follows traffic, not taste
Commercial traffic is a different order of magnitude from residential. A reception area sees more footfall in a week than a family room sees in a year, and product rated for a home will look worn out in months.
That means commercial-rated carpet tile or broadloom, higher abrasion classes in hard surface, and adhesives and backings specified for the load. It also means being straightforward about the rooms that do not need it — a private office at the end of a corridor is not the lobby, and specifying it as though it were is money spent on nothing.

What's included

Site visit and measurement before any number
Products selected for commercial traffic
Work scheduled around your opening hours
Same preparation, cleanup and walkthrough as our residential jobs

Where we work

Offices, suites and small premises

Offices and professional suites

The most common commercial job we do: a suite of offices, a corridor and a reception area, often with a fixed date to be back in use. Carpet tile is usually the sensible answer — it goes down fast, it can be phased around occupied desks, and a damaged tile lifts out and gets replaced without touching the rest of the floor.

It also handles the thing that actually damages office floors, which is chairs. Castor wheels on a soft residential carpet cut a track within a year.

Retail and customer-facing space

Customer-facing floors have to look right and take concentrated traffic through the door and along the main route. Those two demands pull in different directions, and the resolution is usually a harder-wearing specification on the traffic lanes with something better-looking where people stop.

Entry matting is worth more than it costs. The majority of what wears a commercial floor is grit carried in on shoes, and stopping it in the first few feet extends the life of everything beyond it.

Small premises and tenant fit-outs

Fit-outs and turnover work between tenants have their own pressure: a fixed window, and often a subfloor nobody has looked at since the building went up. We would rather see it before the date is committed to than discover a leveling job on the first morning.

For landlords, being able to replace part of a floor rather than all of it is usually the deciding factor, and it is worth building into the original specification.

Customer-facing floors have to look right and take concentrated traffic through the door and along the main route.

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