Senior Living
Benton House in
Alpharetta, GA.
Product featured:
custom design
Enhancing the
living experience.
Flooring is the foundation of the built
environment. It impacts experiences and
provides comfort and support. In the senior
living environment, it can transform the way
residents and caretakers interact with their
surroundings and with each other.
Patcraft designs our flooring to address issues
related to safety, comfort, performance,
health and sustainability.
High-performance flooring
designed to make
senior living environments
feel like home.
What matters
in Senior Living
spaces.
Patcraft creates
high-performance
flooring to improve
every area in
the senior living
environment.
Falls can result in more
frequent injuries.
Patcraft offers safe,
non-slip surfaces that
can help reduce falls
and prevent injuries.
SELECTIONS FOR EVERY SPACE
CREATING A SAFER ENVIRONMENT
SENSE AND SENSIBILITY
O U R C O L L E C T I O N S feature patterns
O U R P R O D U C T S A N D S O L U T I O N S are
O U R S E N S E S are crucial not only to our
and colors designed to coordinate flawlessly
with any interior. By offering a full range of
flooring options in broadloom and modular
carpet and resilient sheet and plank products,
we offer durability, design, protection and easy
maintenance for:
designed to enhance the safety and comfort of
senior living interiors. Flooring is a key factor in
creating a safe environment that’s easy to navigate
and encourages interaction. We offer solutions to:
vitality, but also to our health. Flooring provides
a layer of comfort1 that can also absorb sound
and improve visual acuity. Improving the
senses leads to greater social contact and
increased enjoyment.
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Lobbies
Corridors
Dining Areas
Common Areas
Activity Rooms
Rehabilitation and Treatment areas
Resident Rooms
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Reduce slips & falls
Improve acoustics
Reduce visual distraction
Encourage greater socialization
Ease roller mobility
Provide wayfinding and orientation to the space
S I G H T | Flooring can impact sight lines2:
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Glare can cause disorientation,
confusion and anxiety
Busy patterns and glare can cause
eye strain and eye pain
Well-designed visuals can help
establish pathways
S O U N D | Better acoustics 3 can result in:
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Lower stress and blood pressure
levels
Better sleep
Higher resident satisfaction
Increased visitation, communication
and socialization
Fewer medical errors
Improved morale
1. S.C. Reznikoff Specifications for Commercial Interiors: Professional Liabilities Regulations & Performance Criteria (Watson-Guptili: revised edition, 1989) 115.
2. Hedge, A (2003) Ergonomic design issues & carpet: A review. International E Journal of Flooiring Sciences: Retrieved from http://www.flooringscience.org/e-journal/0407/0407_hedge-ergonomic_design-issues.pdf
3. Gatland S Designing Environments for Sound Control Leads to Healthier, Happoer Guest. www.aia.org/practicing group/kc/aiab058394
Performance
and solutions
matter.
High-Performance
Flooring That Protects
Your Investment
Floors are easier to clean and maintain with our
high-performance fibers and moisture impermeable
backings.
We offer a variety of fiber and backing options for
senior living applications. Our Solution Q Extreme®
fiber can be cleaned with water only, allowing you
to choose the performance features unique to your
application. Solution Q Extreme and our EcoSolution
Q ® fiber come with a limited lifetime warranty.
Our moisture impermeable EcoWorx Performance
Broadloom® backing passes the 10,000 impact and
British spill test.
CA R P E T C O N S T R U C T I O N
& DURABILIT Y
Eco Solution Q® and Solution Q® Extreme
fibers are made of long-lasting, colorfast, fully
recyclable nylon 6 that withstands wear and retains
appearance. Solution Q Extreme resists the absorption
of acid-based liquids when cleaned with water.
EcoWorx Performance Broadloom® provides a
powerful moisture barrier (passes 10,000 impacts test)
that protects subfloors from liquid contaminants.
EcoWorx Tile® is the industry’s first sustainable,
non-PVC tile backing engineered to add a layer of
strength and durability.
LokDots™ is an odorless, non-toxic adhesive
designed for the installation of carpet tile in occupied
spaces. It’s ideal for areas susceptible to high moisture
in subfloors.
R E S I L I E N T P E R F O R M A N C E F LO O R I N G
All of our flooring solutions
are designed to prolong
product lifecycles,
make installation and
replacement easier and
improve maintenance and
sustainability.
Our Resilient Flooring is constructed to achieve
an optimum balance of aesthetic visuals, long-term
durability and easy maintenance. The availability of
various product profiles (sheet, plank, LVT), easy
installation techniques and delivery service supported
by company-owned distribution make Patcraft a valued
partner for large and small organizations. Most of our
resilient products are backed with a 10 year under bed
warranty when installed with Shaw 4100 and a 5 year
under bed warrany when installed with S150.
SERVICE & MAINTENANCE
We offer turn-key services include professional
flooring consultation, project estimating, Installation,
forecasting/ stock replacement and management
reporting.
MAC (Maintenance and Cleaning Tool) provides free,
online training programs to help maintain your flooring.
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