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While often overlooked, entrance mats for shops and offices play a vital role in maintaining floorcare hygiene, ensuring safety, and enhancing the aesthetic of your brand.
Here’s how choosing the proper entrance matting can have a significant impact on your business.
What is the best material for entrance mats?
There are plenty of options for commercial entrance matting. Understanding the properties of different matting materials will help you find the best combination of durability, performance and aesthetics.
You’ll also need to bear in mind the volume and direction of traffic, the likelihood of spills, maintenance requirements, weather conditions, and regulatory compliance when making your choice.
Textile
Textiles like nylon and polypropylene are excellent materials for entrance matting. Often used for shops and other high-traffic areas, textile mats offer exceptional crush resistance and are highly stain- and fade-resistant, maintaining their just-laid look for longer.
Ribbed entrance matting is a good aesthetic choice for shops, schools, offices and hospitals. It dries quickly, traps dirt and moisture, and has an attractive appearance that gives your spaces a luxurious feel.
Coir
Coir is instantly recognisable as a classic entrance mat. This sustainable material derives from coconut shells, giving coir mats their distinctive bristled appearance.
Slow-drying and prone to staining, coir has been superseded for commercial use as it’s not a wheelchair-friendly material.
Rubber
Heavy-duty nitrile mats are another good choice, with aesthetics best suited to exterior use. Available in a range of designs, they have excellent dirt-scraping performance as the debris falls through the mat.
Nitrile rubber is often used as a backing material thanks to its durability, resistance and non-slip.
What to consider when choosing commercial entrance mats
Here’s what to bear in mind when choosing entrance mats for offices, shops, and other commercial spaces:
Safety
Entrance mats impact workplace safety, making this your top priority when selecting commercial matting. Slips and trips on wet or dirty floors are a common cause of accidents, which can impact your business liability. The perfect entrance matting prevents hazards and ensures your building maintains regulatory compliance.
Traffic volume
Can your commercial entrance mats withstand the demands of heavy foot traffic? Textile mats are a great choice for shops and offices that experience a high volume of visitors and customers.
Layout
Will you need a single mat or a combination of materials for the best solution? Is your location particularly prone to wet or windy conditions? Our loose lay and permanent workplace mats ensure maximum coverage with optimal performance.
Cleanliness and hygiene
Entrance matting is your first line of defence. As part of your floorcare hygiene strategy, mats are an effective way to control the spread of dirt, dust, moisture, and other undesirable substances, keeping your premises pristine. Better yet, you’ll protect your floors from wear and tear, extending their longevity.
Brand Identity and Recognition
Entrance matting is the first thing your visitors and customers see when they enter your premises. Tailor the design and colours to match your business for instant brand recognition.
Tips for maintaining and cleaning entrance mats for your shop or office
Our general maintenance and cleaning tips will keep your entrance matting in pristine condition.
- Spot cleaning: Spills are inevitable, so the sooner you can deal with them, the better. Handheld vacuums help suck up small quantities of liquid. Keep freeze sprays on hand to remove chewing gum, and use cold water and mild detergent to make short work of most protein-based stains.
- Removing dry soil and debris: Dry soil is a common problem, but it can be easily removed with an industrial vacuum cleaner. If your matting has a ‘fall-through’ design, lift regularly to remove the debris.
- Regular vacuuming: Establishing a regular vacuuming schedule prevents dirt and grime particles from becoming embedded in your matting, making removal difficult.
To learn more about caring for your exterior rubber matting, read our maintenance guide.
Commercial entrance mats from phs
Our range of workplace mats is specifically designed for comfort and safety. Whether you choose a permanent or loose-lay option, both are suitable for shops, offices, and other commercial buildings. Designed to reduce fatigue and boost comfort, they’re an ideal entrance matting solution.
All our entrance mats are professionally installed and cleaned by phs technicians to keep your entryway looking pristine.
- Permanent Fitted Entrance Mats are a fantastic choice for areas with heavy foot traffic. These hardwearing mats are installed flush to the floor, making them Equality Act and Document M compliant and reducing the risk of trips and falls.
Available in a range of colours to suit your branding, our permanent fitted entrance mats can be customised with your logo to create an outstanding first impression.
- Loose Lay Mats are a practical choice when you need greater flexibility. Ideal for businesses that need mats that are easy to site, clean, and replace, our loose-lay mats will reduce slip hazards in busy areas.
We provide a full laundering option to ensure your entrance mats remain clean and effective.
To find out more about our commercial entrance matting options, please contact the phs team today.
