What are the Best Tiles for a Meeting Room?

Adequate architecture not only embellishes a meeting room but could also imperceptibly help gain popularity. Flooring with black tiles appears a bright and spacious meeting room more dignified and pragmatic. White walls and black floor unify the meeting room to a complete ensemble. Clear and refined texture would stand out from light reflection on the surface of black tiles. The meeting room would make people feel cozy, warm, and relaxing from glossy and smooth face of black tiles.

Common Flooring Materials for a Meeting Room

Types of flooring materials could be countless for a meeting room. Yet, people usually tend to floor meeting rooms with carpets, wooden planks, polyvinyl chloride and so on. Some customers may not know their characteristics and functions. Now let us take a look at how these materials come into common use.

Carpets

Pros:

Noise insulation is said to be one of the benefits that carpets contain. Moreover, softness and anti-sliding could prevent people from falling and slipping.

Cons:

Due to high water absorption, carpets would be a wonderful shelter for dust and particles. In this way, regular cleaning is supposed to be committed to prevent dust mite. It is acknowledged that carpet is a nice place for breeding dust mite. Repellent and disinfectant might be necessary for keeping mite away.

Wooden planks

Pros:

Wooden planks are also anti-slipping and practical. Besides, its natural texture is so soft and comfortable to the touch. Real wood-made planks are capable of adjusting indoor temperature, keeping the room warm in winter.

Cons:

It would be expensive in maintenance due to its softness. Scratches might be left by high heels or a small knife. Both installation and cleaning would be costly and labor-consuming for wooden planks. What is more, the room would look dusty in the air since wooden planks could possibly build up a layer of dust.

PVC flooring

Pros:

This material is known as a type of plastics named polyvinyl chloride. PVC floor is scratch resistant and wear resistant due to its great hardness and thickness. Besides, PVC floor is available in various colors and patterns because it could imitate any types of materials like natural marble and real wood.

Cons:

The quality of the ground decides the construction and completion results. Therefore, installation would be demanding. The recycling value is low because PVC is relatively inexpensive. Although the burning point of PVC is high, it would be thickly smoky after firing. Moreover, it emits toxic gas like hydrogen chloride and dioxin during combustion.

Advantages of Black Tiles for Meeting Rooms

As a new type of decoration materials, black tiles have become a growing trend in modernized construction. It has been built in countless public areas such as shopping malls, airports, metro stations, and commercial buildings. Particularly, multiple merits of black tile make it born for meeting rooms flooring.

Wear and shock resistance

The first feature of high-quality meeting room flooring is wearing resistance as a meeting room is a high-traffic area. People would walk in and out of the meeting room for multiple times daily. Luckily, ruggedization and coating technology allow black tiles to survive in such a high-traffic environment.  

Anti-sliding

It is important for flooring to be anti-slippering because it would be awkward when someone slides down on a ceremonial occasion. To guarantee that everyone is in a safe environment, we should floor the meeting room with non-slippery materials. Black tiles could totally prevent sliding from liquid spitting. Anti-slipping structure protects women walking with high heels on black tiles.

Flame resistance

Super-thin fire retardant coated on the face raises ignitability of black tiles. Combustible furniture like wooden chairs and desk would be found in a meeting room. During a meeting, it is also significant to keep the crowd in a safe condition without firing anxiety. Black tiles contain zero carbon so that the floor is not possible to be flamed.

Easy in Cleaning and Maintenance

Black tiles are well-known for its ability of contamination resistance and long service life. Meeting rooms might be dusty if it is not used for a long period of time. What is worse, most meeting rooms would be full of contamination and stains after frequent use. Either way, black tiles would require less effort on cleaning owing to its refined texture and low water absorption. Maintenance would also be a piece of cake because black tiles would hardly be deformed, color fading, or eroded through weathering.

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