Gerflor barking up right tree with BRAVEHOUND

Health Wed, Jun 28, 2017 9:25 AM

BRAVEHOUND is the canine wing of the charity GLEN ART who support former servicemen and women and their families.

Based in Scotland, Glen Art has developed a new programme where they link suitable veterans with companion dogs. BRAVEHOUND provides the companion dogs and then supplies the support for the dog and veteran over the dogs’ life.

When the charity was seeking to re-modernise their training facility in Erskine Hospital with new safety flooring, they appeared on the radar of international flooring and interiors specialist Gerflor who happily agreed to help.

The installation of the Gerflor flooring would fall to Glasgow-based Muirgroup Interiors Ltd, a family business which has been supplying the contract interior flooring market since 1976.

Jim Magill, Estimator at Muirgroup Interiors Ltd commented: “Bravehound operate from the ex-serviceman’s hospital in Erskine, we had already been carrying-out the maintenance flooring work for Erskine Hospital and they approached us on this project to recommend and fit a suitable safety flooring product for the Bravehound training room.

"We approached Gerflor and they very quickly and kindly suggested they would like to donate some of their Tarasafe Standard vinyl safety flooring. We knew this would be the perfect choice as we had worked with Gerflor products in the past.”

The BRAVEHOUND project at Erskine Hospital would need 200m2 of Gerflor’s Tarasafe Standard vinyl safety flooring in Royal Blue.

Fiona MacDonald, Founder and Director of Glen Art said: “Our training room at Erskine Hospital is now very smart. We can also now use it for events, so it makes a huge difference to us on a practical level. For the veterans we support, having flooring of this quality donated to us is a huge boost to morale.”

With more than 70 years’ experience, Gerflor’s expertise in safety flooring is unrivalled. The Tarasafe™ vinyl safety flooring range is available in over 80 finishes and is reinforced with a glass fibre grid, suitable for use in all areas of heavy traffic where slip-resistance, durability and hygienic conditions are required.

Using mineral crystal particles, rather than the industry standard carborundum, Tarasafe, with its improved performance, is easier to install, lighter and more flexible to handle.

The range has a maximum hygiene rating meeting the EN Standard 22196 for anti- bacterial activity (E. coli - S.aureus - MRSA) (3) returning >99% levels of growth inhibition and comes with a 12-year warranty. Tarasafe™ is stain and chemical resistant and comes with the unique SparClean® surface treatment thus no polish for life.

Tarasafe™ is a hugely popular choice for a host of environments; education, healthcare, leisure, hospitality, housing and in any applications that require slip resistance to be maintained.

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