Flooring for Canterbury Schools and Nurseries

Surveying a {town} school ahead of a holiday project

Because school flooring work happens in a fixed window, the survey stage matters more than it does for most commercial jobs. Rooms need measuring while still in use so the fitter can see genuine wear patterns, furniture layouts and door swing clearances before scheduling anything.

A survey carried out well before the holiday also gives time to order materials, particularly where a specific safety flooring colour or acoustic underlay grade needs to be confirmed with the manufacturer rather than taken from stock.

• Rooms measured and photographed while in normal use, not after furniture has been cleared
• Lead times for specific colours or underlay grades checked against the holiday date
• Access, parking and delivery routes confirmed with site staff ahead of the work

Fitting within holiday and half-term windows

School flooring work is almost always scheduled for a holiday period so classrooms are not disrupted during term time, and adhesives and floor coverings are chosen with cure times that fit the available window, ensuring floors are dry and ready for the first day of the new term.

• Work scheduled for half term, weekends or the summer holiday depending on job size
• Fast-curing adhesives specified where the fitting window is short
• Furniture moved and reinstated as part of the job so classrooms are ready to teach in
• Old flooring removed and disposed of within the same window