Nursery Flooring Nottingham
Safety vinyl, coved washroom floors and carpet tiles for day nurseries, pre-schools and childcare settings across Nottingham.
A nursery floor takes more punishment than most commercial floors: water play, paint, lunch, nappy changes and a great many small knees. We look at how each room is really used, then fit while the setting is empty. The preparation underneath is done by the same people who lay the finished floor.
Safety Floors in Practice
Welded vinyl and coved edges are the details that make a nursery floor easy to keep clean. More of our commercial and wet-room work is in the gallery.
Toilets and changing
Sheet vinyl taken up the wall and welded at the seams leaves nowhere for spills to sit, so the room cleans with one mop.
Waterproof flooring
The coved edge up close
From one of our Nottingham wet rooms: the same cap coving detail we use wherever a floor is washed every day.
Non-slip floors
Kitchens and milk rooms
A nursery kitchen is a food business like any other, so it gets the commercial safety vinyl a catering kitchen would.
Commercial kitchen floorsWhat a Nursery Floor Has to Cope With
The same five problems turn up in almost every setting we survey.
Wet floors
Water trays, hand basins and knocked-over beakers mean parts of the floor are wet for much of the day. Safety vinyl keeps its grip when wet, and when you compare products it is the wet pendulum figure that tells you most, not the dry one.
Cleaning several times a day
Toilets, changing areas and the kitchen get mopped and disinfected over and over. Heat-welded seams and coving turned up the wall take away the joints and corners where dirt and moisture would otherwise build up, and tell us what you clean with so the finish we fit can stand it.
Children at floor level
Babies crawl and toddlers sit, so baby rooms and quiet corners need something warmer and softer than a hard sheet. Carpet tiles are the practical choice: one stained tile comes out and a spare goes back in, and we leave a box of spares from the same batch with you.
Edges and doorways
Where one room meets the next, or vinyl meets carpet, a raised lip catches small feet. We set levels so the floors meet flush, and use trims that are fixed down rather than stuck on, so they stay put when ride-on toys hit them.
Rain, grit and buggies
Drop-off brings in wet coats, muddy wellies and pushchair wheels twice a day. A strip of entrance matting set level with the floor catches most of it before it reaches the playrooms.
Inspection and Your Duty of Care
The floor is part of whether your premises count as safe and suitable.
The EYFS statutory framework expects providers to keep their premises and equipment safe and suitable for the children they look after. Staff are covered separately by the Workplace (Health, Safety and Welfare) Regulations 1992, which say a floor must suit the way it is used and must not be slippery or uneven. In practice that means grip where the floor gets wet, no lifting edges, and surfaces that can actually be cleaned.
We lay floors; we do not sign off premises. If your provider, landlord or the council has written a specification, we will price to it line for line.
Working Round a Setting That Can't Shut
Most nurseries are open for all but a few days a year.
We can fit across a weekend, a bank holiday or the Christmas closure. If none of those will do, we work through the building one room at a time while you move children into the rest of it. Where the existing floor is uneven we level it first with floor preparation or screeding, and before work starts we tell you how long each room needs before it can be used again.
How We Quote
No figures online, and no guesswork either.
For most commercial jobs Liam comes out, measures each room and, wherever he can, looks at what the current floor is laid on. He brings samples, because a colour chosen in a showroom often looks different under your own lights. The written quote is itemised, with materials, uplift, preparation, fitting and trims each on their own line, and he talks it through with you in person so nothing on it is a surprise.
Planning Work on Your Setting?
Tell us which rooms need new floors and when you are closed, and Liam will come out with samples.
Other Premises We Floor
Different buildings, the same survey, planning and out-of-hours fitting.
Schools
Halls, classrooms and corridors done in the holidays.
Care Homes
Safety vinyl that looks like home and cleans like a clinic.
Shops and Salons
Hard-wearing floors fitted outside trading hours.
Offices
Carpet tiles laid around a working floor.
Commercial Kitchens
Slip-rated vinyl, welded and coved for hygiene.
All Commercial Flooring
Every sector and floor type we cover.
We fit nursery floors across Nottingham, including the city centre, Arnold, West Bridgford, Daybrook, Beeston and Bulwell.
Nursery Flooring Questions
Can a nursery floor be fitted over a weekend?
Most single rooms, yes, as long as the subfloor is sound. Bigger refurbishments are split over several weekends or a closure week, or done one room at a time while the rest of the nursery stays open.
Is carpet acceptable in a nursery?
In the right rooms. Carpet tiles suit baby rooms, sleep rooms and book corners because they are soft and quiet, and a damaged tile can be swapped on its own. They are the wrong choice for toilets, kitchens and messy play, which need welded safety vinyl.
What slip rating should nursery flooring have?
Look at the wet result of the pendulum test, which shows how a floor behaves with water on it. A wet figure of 36 or more is generally treated as low slip risk. We can show you the published figures for every product we suggest.
Do you take up the old floor?
Yes. Uplift and disposal are part of the job and appear as their own line on the quote. Old adhesive and uneven patches are dealt with before the new floor goes down, because new vinyl shows every bump underneath it.
Why don't you publish prices?
Because room sizes, the condition of the floor underneath and the products you choose change the cost more than anything else. Liam measures up, gives you an itemised written quote and explains every line in person.
