InterfaceFLOR employs the services of many researchers, including microbiologists, all commited to excellence in healthcare carpet design and performance.
As a result, our carpets have specific features to address the key issues in healthcare such as biocontaminant control, maintainability, durability and low wheel resistance.
Combined with key benefits for patients, staff and healthcare administrators, InterfaceFLOR carpet products provide an effective soloution for the modern healthcare environment.
InterfaceFLOR carpet's dense loop pile & multi-layered backing construction, provides low wheel resistance yet can help prevent slipping and associated falls.
The solution-dyed nylon yarns, combined with the strength of the backing, ensure the product will not shrink, stretch, or fade due to the required cleaning regimes or spillages.
The multi-layered backing provides high dimensional stability. As a result, it is warranted against rucking / wrinkling or edge ravel associated with other carpet products, due to constantly moving beds and heavy equipment.
InterfaceFLOR has a range of healthcare carpets that comply with specification C1.10 of the Building Code of Australia Vol. 1 Fire Hazard Properties required for healthcare environments.
InterfaceFLOR products feature an anti-static treatment, which dissipates static charges instantly, making it ideal for use around sensitive electronic equipment.
InterfaceFLOR carpet is designed to meet the rigours of the healthcare environment and is backed by a 15-year warranty against excessive surface wear, colour fade, edge ravel, backing separation, shrinking, stretching and static electricity.
InterfaceFLOR modular carpets can be easily installed and replaced around hospital equipment, ensuring minimum disruption and downtime.
InterfaceFLOR carpets are made from solution-dyed nylon fibre (colour solid throughout fibre), rather than post production dyed. As a result, the product will not lose colour vibrancy with extreme wear, cleaning agents or spills of pharmaceuticals, food or bodily fluid. The dense loop pile ensures easy release of liquids and soil, minimising staining.
In exceptional circumstances that cause severe damage, individual tiles or sections can be replaced to further extend the lifecycle.
While InterfaceFLOR modular carpet is warranted against excessive surface wear for a period of 15 years, in most healthcare facilities, 20% of the floor receives 80% of the wear.
Modularity enables tile rotation providing more even wear and greater longevity. Spare tiles can be stored easily.
InterfaceFLOR modular carpet in healthcare facilities provides a quieter, warmer homelike environment conducive to healing, without compromising biocontaminant control.
It potentially reduces the risk of slipping and fall-related injuries among clients while reducing leg fatigue among healthcare staff. The multi-layered design creates a cushioning effect. The dense loop pile provides grip yet with a highly uniform surface.
Modularity can easily develop important navigational cues in large facilities such as pathways, colour coding spaces and providing client-appropriate décor eg. children's ward.
With the vast array of colour and styling options in the InterfaceFLOR range, engaging designs can be achieved. Design flexibility combined with biocontaminant control features, make it an effective solution for modern healthcare.
Intersept ®, a unique, permanent broad-spectrum antimicrobial agent, is embedded within InterfaceFLOR carpets. No other anti-microbial provides an equivalent combination of broad-spectrum efficacy, long-term durability and low toxicity.
Intersept ®, combined with InterfaceFLOR’s easy-care cleaning methods and recommended products, eliminates up to 99% of all microbial growth (the source of nearly half of all indoor air quality problems). Intersept ® is effective against gram-negative and gram-positive bacteria, fungal and virus organisms.
Intersept ® is non-soluble, therefore is not removed by cleaning processes. Unlike other antimicrobial agents, it does not require reapplication. As well as improving maintainability, it is also non-toxic and non-volatile (no off-gassing).
The nylon fibre, dense loop pile construction is proven to provide the most effective release of wet and dry contaminants. Combined with fluorocarbon treatments to repel soil and stains, conditions for microbial growth are minimised and the product is easy to maintain.
High performance impermeable backings ensure that liquids cannot penetrate to the sub-floor surface. In the unlikely event tiny amounts of liquid manage to penetrate the tight seal between carpet tiles, InterfaceFLOR's adhesive, Inter-Tac ® , includes Intersept ® to maintain biocontaminant control integrity.