Resilient Flooring Renewal and Facilities Labor Shortages
With Bona, resilient flooring renewal vs replacement is a solution resulting in significant savings for facility managers battling labor shortages.
Resilient Flooring Renewal and Facilities Labor Shortages
With Bona, resilient flooring renewal vs replacement is a solution resulting in significant savings for facility managers battling labor shortages.
Durable, modern Bona resilient floor renovation on limited maintenance resources
Our current post-pandemic reality includes scarce labor resources and reduced budgets for many companies and organizations. The ongoing labor shortage crisis has made it difficult for facility managers to keep up with their resilient flooring maintenance needs.
According to FacilitiesManagementAdvisor.BLR.com, a unique set of challenges for facilities management professionals remains. With diminishing staffing levels and increased cost pressures, it's essential that facility managers look at innovative, cost-cutting resilient flooring solutions, such as renewal instead of replacement. Renewing resilient floors will allow facilities to maintain an attractive and durable floor without having to worry about lacking the necessary staff or budget.
Resilient flooring renewal allows facilities managers to gain productivity and cut costs
An eco-friendly solution, resilient flooring renewal is a budget saver and lifeline for dilapidated unsightly surfaces and the facility teams responsible for maintaining them. Resilient flooring replacement is expensive, and not just relative to the cost of the flooring.
By renewing resilient floors, facilities can realize substantial savings
Compared to new floor installation, resilient flooring renewal can provide a tremendous cost savings for years down the line. For example, the renewal process eliminates the need to ever polish the floor again. Considering today’s tight labor, elimination of the polishing process can save significant workforce hours, allowing maintenance teams to focus on other areas of the facility.
Resilient flooring renewal at Havasu Regional Medical Center
The Lake Havasu Regional Medical Center case provides a prime example of how renewing resilient floors can save money and labor. Recently, the facility needed to upgrade its tired, worn resilient flooring yet also be in compliance with strict safety standards. Additionally, the new floor needed to fit within the facility’s limited budget and be maintained with reduced labor resources. Instead of replacing the flooring, the facilities team chose a resilient flooring renewal solution and saved $20,000 (USD), in addition to labor cost savings. The entire renovation project took 18 hours versus the expected 72+ hours for new floor installation, meaning the healthcare teams could efficiently and safely resume patient care on the new surface.
Since the renewal process eliminates the recurring cost and resource of polishing the floor after installation, Havasu Regional Medical Center is able to turn rooms more quickly, freeing up those labor resources to work on other essential work. With proper training and use of high-quality products, the renewal process is efficient and much easier on the budget (and the environment) than a complete flooring tear out and replacement.
Resilient flooring renewal options are providing solutions for facility teams
Modern flooring without the expense, labor and maintenance of replacement, renewing resilient floors versus replacing them, offers the following advantages in a tight labor market:
Never polish again
It eliminates the need to ever polish the floor again, thanks to the finishing coat of the Bona Resilient Solution. Skipping the polishing process gives janitorial and maintenance teams significant time to focus on other essential facility work.
Easy to maintain
It's easy to maintain, especially with limited labor resources. By training maintenance teams in the proper care of resilient flooring - and using high-quality products, such as the Bona Resilient Solution - maintaining new flooring is efficient and very cost effective.
Reduced downtime
Because the renewal process can be completed in a matter of hours (not days or weeks), there is no need to wait for holiday breaks or other planned closures and pay maintenance teams overtime to renovate the flooring.
Brand new floor
Facilities receive a brand-new flooring surface (with numerous design and color options) without the labor or cost required for a demo and new floor installation.