How do you Specify entrance matting in the correct place ?
What does it take to specify entrance matting in the correct place ? Is there a system? Does anything work as long as its heavy duty ?
The answer is not always a simple one… there are as many types of entrance matting as there are floorcoverings in general and without a little knowledge you can just as easily over specify and increase your projects life-cycle costs as you can under specify!
The real aim of the game is to specify correctly while at the same time keeping costs to a minimum – how do you do this ? You follow the 3 Step MatWorks rule of course!
So what is the 2 Step MatWorks rule? when you consider any entrance you need to think dirt and moisture ingress and zoning. The most important zone and serial offender for allowing dirt and moisture into the sensitive areas of your building is Zone 1a and Zone 1b (view our image for visuals of each Zone).
ZONE 1
In Zones 1a and 1b the installation of exterior matting catches the first wave of heavy debris in a high traffic area, ensuring the removal of up to 40% of dirt and moisture from entering the building. An effective primary entrance mat will continue the removal of dirt and moisture working with the external matting containing any heavy debris.
ZONE 2
In these zones a high specification secondary barrier mat will continue the cleaning and scraping process, removing up to 70% of remaining dirt and moisture. At this stage dust is also driven into the matting rather than remaining airbourne.
ZONE 3
In buildings with a very high volume of traffic , primary matting is often supplemented into secondary areas, loose lay matting and logo mats are used to reduce dust migration throughout main corridors and completely remove remaining dirt and moisture from shoes completing the drying process and protecting your building investment.
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