Hospitality Sector

Avant Flooring is the ideal flooring product, developed in Germany, for the hospitality sector. Whether fine dining restaurants, cafes or 5 star hotels, you can feel safe in the knowledge that Avant Flooring is performing day in and day out for you; whilst retaining the visual appeal it had the first day it was installed. Beside aesthetics, the hospitality sector also demands a durable, resilient solution when it comes to flooring. This is due to the high foot traffic found in hotel lobbies, hotel rooms, which are frequented and vacated often, to kitchens and restaurants with their bulky tables and chair legs and even cafes, with interior areas being subjected to dust.

Avant Flooring was researched and developed in Germany utilising a reverse engineering process, this is to say that during the research and development of Avant Flooring, these tough interior settings were studied in meticulous detail. Materials and design were tried and tested until an ideal sustainable solution was found; the 4-layer design and the composite material technology has thus allowed Avant Flooring to be a complete solution to the hospitality sector, with a myriad of further added benefits not found in other flooring products.

Sector Challenges & Solutions

High Wear Resistance:
Normally when a hospitality development is being designed, the majority of thought is placed on the aesthetics of the interior. Time, effort and taste are used to match varying colours and materials in order to create the desired themes and motifs selected by the architect projecting the values of the hospitality establishment. Often during this process, many expensive materials are used in order to provide the visitors with a fantastic 5 star visual experience, however little emphasis is placed on selecting materials for their ease of use, longevity, quality, durability and sustainable properties. From as early as 6 months after opening, a large percentage of hotels, restaurants and cafes, will discover large scale problems with their interior finishes due to the huge physical load of everyday wear and tear should an inadequate material be chosen. These detrimental effects can be seen by the customers. Broken and scratched flooring in areas which have been specially designed to be elegant, have a negative effect on the image of the establishment and can cost the owners vast sums of money in maintenance and replacement fees. What is more, the hotel, restaurant or cafe would normally have to be closed temporarily during works as maintaining or retrofitting independent sections of flooring in-situ is an extensive process, thus losing income due to lack of operation.

Aesthetic Solutions:
Avant Flooring offers architects and developers everything they require in terms of aesthetics due to its 15 varying textures and colours. It has also been engineered to respond, without fail, to the physically demanding hospitality environment with added benefits. With such a sturdy structure as the tongue-and-groove system, and 15 different stains and grains, Avant Flooring is also perfectly suited for transition designs between itself and another materials, such as connecting to a marble bathroom or transitioning to other rooms fitted with a different aesthetic look of Avant Flooring.

High Bearing Capacity
Avant Flooring’s composite material technology, married with its honeycomb structure, has a high bearing capacity for typical point and uniformly distributed loads. Couple this with its resilient surface layer and incredible surface soundness rating score, stands Avant Flooring as the solution which lasts for all hospitality applications. Avant Flooring is not without its added benefits for the hospitality sector.

Quick Installation Time:
Avant Flooring utilizes a tongue-and-groove system which is so easy to use a basically trained installation team, only needs a straightforward understanding of basic carpentry and about 8 minutes of installation time per square meter set aside, saving time, cost and closure periods. Secondly, Avant Flooring is easy to shape in the required way to fit any challenging interior spaces. Tight corners and curved walls are normally a challenge when it comes to other flooring products, yet Avant Flooring can easily be installed without extra effort, around these certain features.

Energy Saving Properties:
Further, the composite material technology in Avant Flooring has a very low thermal conductivity value ‘K’, this means it doesn’t transfer heat or chilled air through its surface. Providing a room with insulating flooring can cut huge sums of a hospitality’s HVAC bills (between 25 and 30%) and provides a buy-back factor, meaning after just three years the flooring can pay for itself due to savings on utility bills.

Waterproof:
What’s more, due to Avant Flooring’s waterproof capabilities and impermeable surface, hospitality staff can clean Avant Flooring quickly and easily. This translates to a quick turnaround time for the maid and housekeeping departments. Avant Flooring ensures a versatile chemical resistance, ensuring even the harshest cleaning products can be utilized without the worry of damaging or bleaching the flooring.