What is most important to you and your team in this project?

1. Protect your floors – How much will be enough to protect the entry area and through the building from the effects of soil coming into the building?
2. Save costs in cleaning – The soil that comes in the doors is best stopped with the mat at a relatively small cost rather than the cost of cleaning the lobbies of 30 floors in your building.
3. Prevent slip fall accidents – Matting will reduce the possibility of wet floors and any slip falls.
4. Reduce environmental impact – Catch soil at the doorway so you are using less cleaning products, equipment and labour to remove that soil as it tracks elsewhere in the building.
5. LEEDS credit. Essentially a reward for doing the right thing in 1 – 4 above. Clearly the LEEDS program is more focused on the reduction part, but speaking in eco-economics, we’d like to say the “credit” for installing 10ft of permanent matting at each entry is well deserved.
6. Impact. You will love the impact of a large one-piece matting system with the building name across it. It expresses your concern for safety and cleanliness. It shows sophistication and pride in your facility that permeates through to your tenants, their employees and their guests.

Now, you need to measure your needs above both physically and logically. With a tape measure on the floor, think about how much matting will simply Protect. You may pay the contract cleaners a flat monthly fee, so Savings for cleaning costs isn’t evident until you ask your cleaners to handle a spill somewhere else in the building, but they’re busy mopping the entry. If you’ve ever been sued for a slip fall, you’ll likely feel prevention outweighs everything. LEEDS certification is mandated in many buildings, which will often drive matting decisions. When your analysis is complete, ask this question…