[NHCOLL-L:4547] Re: digest 1906

[Alexandra M Snyder]

Rachel,  Try to get your facility planners to go along 
with a sealed polished concrete floor or something other 
than covering the floor with those vinyl tiles.  I have 
first hand experience with this tile in our museum and 
have seen it used in other settings (labs and commercial 
areas) and in all settings, it does the following:  curls 
up with minimal exposure to moisture, gapes and cracks 
when set on uneven surfaces, chips at edges when placed 
around floor drains and compactor tracks, and does not 
clean up well, looking dingy and dismal in a short time. 
 I was also told by the university facility planners that 
the "most cost effective" flooring was this vinyl tile and 
that I would "like it." I don't, and thankfully, I was 
able to keep it out of the fluid collection storage room. 
 Maybe there are better ($$) vinyl products out there that 
do not fail. Yes, concrete dust needs to be strictly 
controlled but I do not think these "cost effective" vinyl 
tiles are the answer.   Lex

On Thu,  1 Oct 2009 00:01:14 EDT
  NHCOLL-L Natural History Collections List 
<nhcoll-l at lists.yale.edu> wrote:
> 
> 			    NHCOLL-L Digest 1906
> 
> Topics covered in this issue include:
> 
>  1) [NHCOLL-L:4545] Vinyl tile
> 	by RMalloy at nevadaculture.org

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