Floor Pads: Choosing the Right Color for the Task

Colorful Floor Tiles are used for Garage Floor Pads to compliment your design theme. Carrying the interior design theme to your garage floor pad creates appealing esthetics.

from Associated Content

As a custodial manager, I periodically come upon custodians using incorrect color-coded floor pads for a floor care project, because they will often express that all floor pads are the same and it really does not matter. But when you are trying to manage a staff and oversee a host of custodial projects to completion, the difference between a job task being completed on time and a job task being completed correctly, can come down to this one simple fact. In order to make a floor care job task easier for the average person to understand, this short article will help me explain the purposeful use of each color pad.

Floor pad manufacturers do not produce floor pads in different colors schemes simply as means to attract more sales with the pretty colors. Floor pad colors were introduced into the industry with a purposeful intent. Each color is meant to define a floor care pad for a specific floor care task. The color allows a floor pad manufacturer to differentiate the coarseness of the pad, the job task intent of the pad, as well as providing a means to the customer to be able to discriminate between which color pad should be used for the job task they have to complete. Although some manufacturers occasionally will attempt to introduce new colors into the marketplace, there is a standard color breakdown set in place that is universally accepted in the janitorial industry upon which most customers can rely. The standard colors of floor care pads are as follows: pink, white, beige, red, blue (green), and black.

The pink floor care pad is defined as a pad of light coarseness, which is underlined by the color which speaks of softness. The purpose of the pink floor care pad is for the pad to be utilized in burnishing a floor. With a high speed burnisher, the pink floor care pad restores sheen to the floor and redefines the high gloss look that a floor finish should provide. The reason one would utilize such a pad is to keep a floor looking shiny and new.

Garage Floor Pads Showcase Display

Showcasing your prized possessions is made simple using Garage Floor Pads. Easy to install and a jiffy to snap in place, a garage floor pad gives the room style. Available in any size and just about any color, an interlocking garge floor pad cover is the solution.

Garage Floor Pads are available in kits. Click here for more details.

Game Room Coming Along Using Interlocking Garage Floor Pad

Garage Floor Pads used to create a game room with interlocking garage floor pad tiles.

from Dan ZZ

Over the last couple of weeks I’ve been working on my “Game Room”–essentially a closed space in the garage that will host my MAME cabinet, pinball machine, and gaming PC, along with a treadmill for exercising. Most of the work is done and I’ve moved all the gear in.

It’s a small space, just 10×12′ but it’s plenty big enough for what’s in there. I’ve painted the walls and put down some interlocking floor pads to make the concrete easier to stand on. I’ve also hung some of my medieval themed paintings: The Accolade and Godspeed for the moment.

Still left to finish: install A/C (this will mean cutting an opening in one wall), run new wires from the garage sub-panel for a new circuit, add a plug for the machines (and another plug for tools) and then close up the rest of the drywall. Right now there’s a fluorescent fixture for light (too glaring in off the pinball glass an MAME screen) that I need to replace.

Once that’s done, let the games begin!

Why Protect Your Garage Floor?

By Tom Turner

There are many reasons for ensuring that you protect your garage floor. This area of your property which often gets forgotten about and is certainly going to have to put up with a lot of wear and tear through the years. Certainly if you live in an area where the winters are harsh then think about all that salt you will be getting on your garage floor every time you drive the car back into it. However, by putting down a good quality garage flooring you should help it to last that little bit longer.

Certainly the best types of garage flooring are those which are resin based such as those produced. They both provide resin based garage flooring and are resistant to a varied range of chemicals such as oil. But not only do these types of floorings protect your garage floor they also make it look great as well.

Luckily today the types of garage floorings available come in a variety of different colors so you don't need to stick to boring old grey or black. Also if you want you can add a flaking material which is normally made from stone and this will provide you with a little more grip as well as providing your garage floor with a little classier look to it. But probably the best reason for coating your garage floor with a special flooring cover is that it will help the floor to last longer. Unfortunately if you do not coat your garage floor with one of the best epoxy resins on the market today you may find that the water and oil will get into the garage flooring and after some time they will begin to eat away at it and in turn you may find yourself having to replace the garage floor completely. Also if you happen to spill anything on your new garage flooring you will find that it is much easier to clean it up.

Although there are several different types of coating for your garage floor available certainly the epoxy resin based paints are the most popular of all. The best way to see if your garage floor is able to have this paint applied to it is by carry out a very simple test. All you need do is pour some water on to your garage floor and is if it soaks into it or just stays on top. Unfortunately if the water remains on top of the garage flooring then it has been treated with a sealer and this needs to be removed before you can apply a new garage flooring paint to yours. But prior to painting on the new epoxy garage flooring resin you will need to ensure that it is completely free of dirt.