Medical office flooring help

[C2 Turbo]

Hey Guys,

Inquiring about our medical office where rooms currently have VCT (?) tiles that need to be buffed/waxed every so often.

We pay anywhere from $3000-$4000 a year on maintenence give and take not to mention finding the people who would wax/buff them

There are about 14-15 exam rooms and each room is roughly 70 -80 sq-ft totalling approx 1200-1300 sq-ft total

Would porscelien be a good choice for an office setting?

What are some of the other options where we don't have to keep up witht he maintenence?

Any reason why most if not all medical offices have these VCT tiles?

Thanks

 

[benwah]

IMO, VCT tiles are used because they're cheap, easily replaceable, and you can clean liquid spills fairly easily

Hate to keep repeating but epoxy/urethane will last quite some time, is easily cleanable, and bodily fluids won't hurt it.

 

[C2 Turbo]

You can not epoxy/urethane over the current set up or can you?

 

[turbowoodworker]

The majority of med offices are leases and the tenant improvement costs are therefore kept intentionally low. There is no long term benefit to have higher grade flooring as it is often replaced at the end of the lease or on renewal.

 

[Slowgsr]

Did a plastic surgeons office years back they used welded vinyl wrapped up the walls,
Most on the dental offices we do all use just ceramic.

 

[OJ Bartley]

I do a lot of work with medical tenants, and the recent choice of many seems to be "luxury vinyl plank". Better than VCT, holds up well to foot traffic, cleans easily, and you can get almost any appearance you want. Here's a quick link (no affiliation, was just the first hit from google):

http://www.armstrong.com/flooring/luxury-vinyl.html

 

[AriZ]

I second the luxury vinyl. Super easy to clean and there are a lot of affordable options that don't require much maintenance. I was recently looking at these http://www.flooringinc.com/vinyl/planks/usfloors-coretec-plus.html