Polyflor in Edmonton

Polyflor is built for commercial floors. Its maker focuses on resilient vinyl for buildings with heavy daily use, such as hospitals, schools, shops and transit spaces. Vinyl sheet is a common choice where a floor has to be cleaned often and stand up to steady foot traffic and rolling carts.

James Halstead says its Polyflor flooring is manufactured in the UK. Its Whitefield site near Manchester is the group headquarters and home to Polyflor's homogeneous production, and the company has been on that site since 1915. A second plant in Teesside, which came with the purchase of Riverside Flooring in 2010, expanded the range into heterogeneous flooring.

Those two words describe how a vinyl floor is built. A homogeneous floor has the same material and pattern all the way through its thickness. A heterogeneous floor is built in layers, with a printed design under a clear wear layer. Polyflor makes both. We can explain the difference with samples in hand and help you weigh it for your space.

The group lists Polyflor Canada Inc in Mississauga, Ontario, and Canada is one of the places it names for its sales, marketing and warehouse operations. Polyflor's ranges differ by country, so we check which products are available here through Primco before we recommend one.

We also look at Polyflor for gym floors. A gym, a school multipurpose room or a fitness space needs a floor that suits the activity, the traffic and the cleaning routine. Our gym flooring page covers how we plan those jobs.

The right floor depends on how the space is used, the traffic, rolling loads, the cleaning routine and how quickly the space has to reopen. Sheet vinyl also depends on a flat, sound subfloor, so we look at the subfloor first. Our commercial flooring page explains how we plan and schedule commercial work.

Edmonton entries and corridors take snow, salt and slush for months at a time. A floor that is easy to clean, paired with good entry matting at the door, keeps a commercial space safer and better looking through the winter. Dry winter air and building heat are also worth planning around when a floor is installed.

James Halstead describes the Recofloor programme, a vinyl flooring recycling scheme it helped pioneer, as part of its focus on sustainability.

What is the space used for, and how many people use it each day? Does it need to stay open during the work? Are there wet areas, ramps or changes in floor height? What is the subfloor? Bring the floor plan and photos, and we can match the floor and the details together.