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Most functional, sustainable, affordable, & safe floors for multiple SPA massage therapy rooms with lots of usage. ANY SUGGESTIONS!!! THANK YOU in advance.

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Permalink Reply by Gordon J. Wallis on April 3, 2013 at 7:47pm

You might need to talk to a floor guy.. But of course you dont want carpet.. You want a floor thats easy to clean up oil and product spills.. I worked on a cork floor for a few years and thought it was awesome...Very comfortable for the therapist..However , after a while the oils and products that spilled soaked into the cork and make it look blotchy and unclean. It still was a great working surface for the therapist though..However you want a floor that always looks nice and is easy to clean.. But then Im not telling you anything you dont already know.

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Permalink Reply by Bradley Blalock, LMT on April 3, 2013 at 9:56pm

Thank you, Gordon. We currently have a rubber floor and it's great for comfort on the therapist, it cleans well (no smell) but it wears (black rubs off) and it does soak in oil but you can't see it. Did you notice if the oils break down the cork?

Gordon J. Wallis said:

You might need to talk to a floor guy.. But of course you dont want carpet.. You want a floor thats easy to clean up oil and product spills.. I worked on a cork floor for a few years and thought it was awesome...Very comfortable for the therapist..However , after a while the oils and products that spilled soaked into the cork and make it look blotchy and unclean. It still was a great working surface for the therapist though..However you want a floor that always looks nice and is easy to clean.. But then Im not telling you anything you dont already know.

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Permalink Reply by Gordon J. Wallis on April 3, 2013 at 10:57pm

Well it was a long time ago.. But I dont remember it breaking down the cork. It just stained. Footing was very good though...

Bradley Blalock, LMT said:

Thank you, Gordon. We currently have a rubber floor and it's great for comfort on the therapist, it cleans well (no smell) but it wears (black rubs off) and it does soak in oil but you can't see it. Did you notice if the oils break down the cork?

Gordon J. Wallis said:

You might need to talk to a floor guy.. But of course you dont want carpet.. You want a floor thats easy to clean up oil and product spills.. I worked on a cork floor for a few years and thought it was awesome...Very comfortable for the therapist..However , after a while the oils and products that spilled soaked into the cork and make it look blotchy and unclean. It still was a great working surface for the therapist though..However you want a floor that always looks nice and is easy to clean.. But then Im not telling you anything you dont already know.

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Permalink Reply by Joyce Young on April 4, 2013 at 9:14pm

One spa I worked at used a floor tile that was made up of old medicine bottles. It took a lot of beating and was pretty easy to clean.

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Permalink Reply by Rod Cain on April 9, 2013 at 3:49pm

Bradley....great strides have been made in bamboo flooring (the original versions would mildew)...what I understand of the process is that they heat the bamboo causing the natural sugars to crystalize make it non-porous and thus water cannot get trap...no mildew! I'm not an expert in the field....but I worked in a spa and the floor held up very well. It can still dent if heavy things are dropped...but that is also true even with hard woods.