Flooring that is quick and easy to clean reduces costs over time. As schools renovate to update their look, flooring can be essential in providing a new updated and future forward design style.
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In the summer of 2016, Tom Marsh, Contract/Project Manager for Portsmouth Public Schools, thought it was time to consider new floor[1]ing for two of their schools. The flooring in the hallways of James Hurst Elementary School was tile coated in UV-based urethane and was scuffed and scratched from cleaning and foot traffic.
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Marsh put together a long-term cost-benefit ratio analysis that convinced the school board members that this innovative resilient tile would save money in just a few years through lower maintenance costs: fewer work hours for custodians, lower costs of purchasing cleaning products. Portsmouth’s school corridors now have a bright, fresh new look reflecting school colors. James Hurst Elementary School features a field of Stratified+ flooring in Frost in its corridors, accented by Citrine and Sapphire.
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The transformation was an overwhelming success. “So far, it’s been great. I’ve been in our schools about once a week, and it looks great. The staff there loves it too,” Marsh says.
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“Now, we can have our custodians devote their time to cleaning other parts of the schools, when they used to spend hours and hours just stripping and waxing the floors.”
Tom Marsh, contract/project manager for Portsmouth Public Schools
