How To Select The Right Flooring For Correctional Facilities

Everlast® Epoxy vs Neverlast Flooring Episode 2

Most businesses and industries have their unique set of problems, whether it’s financial, regulatory, or seasonal. Because we are in the flooring business, we hear many horror stories from owners and managers on how their current floor has failed them, and in some cases, caused them significant financial damage because they failed to meet regulatory requirements and receiving heavy fines. When it comes to flooring for correctional facilities… it’s a whole other beast!

In fact, I can’t think of any other industry that has to deal with many dangerous, violent individuals on a daily basis...

...that have to worry about whether the people installing their prison flooring are potentially smuggling in dangerous substances…

… or weapons!


Correctional Facilities Face Heavy Regulatory Standards

After talking to many correctional facility managers, they’ve almost all mentioned the following challenges when it comes to their prison floors;

● They are hard to clean, or in some cases, impossible to clean them up, such as tile floors in kitchen areas,
● Slip resistant problems, especially in shower and kitchen areas,
● Bacteria and pathogen control, often a problem in overpopulated prison wings,
● Difficult to install due to closing down wings, vetting installation crews, and preventing sharp tools and material from being stolen by inmates,
● Flooring for jails need to be 100% non-weaponizable. No broken tiles!,
● Having the budget to hire a installation crew.

You see, an Everlast® Epoxy flooring solution exceeds health and safety standards while also being simple to install… and inmates can install it AND they can’t weaponize the material!

Easy To Clean
● A smooth finish with a slip-resistant texture built in through the marble chips. This means that the floor doesn’t allow dirt to stick to the floor and you can clean it with a deck brush and squeegee,
● Easy to clean bathrooms and showers,
● Great for kitchens. Any fats, oils, or other materials that are often dropped onto the floor in kitchens won’t be absorb,
● We’re approved for food services by the FDA, in fact, the FDA even has some of our Everlast® floors in their own facilities.

Slip Resistant
● Important in the shower and kitchen areas to prevent injuries,
● Our flooring material to go up the walls - sometimes 6-8 feet to protect the walls from moisture and bacteria growth,

Bacteria And Pathogen Control
● Unfortunately, some prisons are overcrowded. They have 2-3 inmates in each cell. - Double Ceiling - Triple Ceiling - and bacteria has a higher chance to grow and spread disease in a smaller area,
● Traditional prison cell flooring, like tile and rubber, will accumulate bacteria and start to smell bad due to cracks in grout and seams opening up. Everlast® Floor is a seamless... the bacteria has no place to grow.

Easy To Install Or Repair With Inmates
● Budget is always a concern with correctional facilities. That’s why it's great to use our system because you can have your inmates watch an installation video and then imitate the procedure,
● It's easy to repair. It’s seamless and you can patch any damaged areas with ease,
● With tile, you need to have many different tools including wet saws and cutting knives. With Everlast® Floor, you just need a few buckets, a mixing machine, and a trowel. If you can follow basic instructions, you can install an Everlast® Floor.

Impossible To Turn It Into A Weapon - Prison Safety Flooring
● A broken tile has very sharp edges and it can even be pointy enough to stab someone with and cause major damage,
● It's impossible to use Everlast® Floor as a weapon because it becomes a part of the substrate. It cannot be chipped off and used as a weapon, like you can do with a tile that’s been broken off the floor.

Everlast® Epoxy floors are simply immune to things like water, grease, oils, and other harmful materials that often damage other basic types of flooring like tile and rubber.

Lock Down Your Prison Floor Permanently

Although our material costs more than competing flooring material like tile and rubber, we easily bridge that cost gap when you factor in how quick and easy it is to install our system.

● You don’t have to remove the older flooring material.
● You don’t have to spend time prepping the surface.
● You are not required to hire skilled installers.

Everlast® Floor can be a permanent solution for your correctional flooring needs without breaking your budget. We can confidently say this because many of our past clients have been small, medium and even mega-jails.

However, we understand you have many questions before making your decision. Why not give us a call and talk to one of our friendly floor experts today? Our experts understand flooring for prisons.

Visit https://www.everlastepoxy.com/ for more information…

… or call 800-708-9870 now.

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