Performance testing of sports floors may not be the most interesting part of what we do, but we do recognize that it is an essential part of our business. After all, no one wants to know more than us that we are providing a floor that is going to perform well over time and that the participants who use our flooring are going to be ensured that they are working out on a surface that is as safe as current standards allow. While the blur of numbers and variables and conditions can be confusing and somewhat redundant, we know that what we provide is going to be trouble free for both our customers and subsequently their customers, the facility members.
When we first introduced a clip-system group exercise floor, over 30 years ago now, we presented the US market with the first floor that had been shown to meet or exceed the DIN Standards. The DIN Standards were German benchmarks for safe flooring and they simply had never before been utilized over here. They soon became recognized by many leading professionals in the research field as the ideal specifications for dance-exercise flooring. Since that time, every manufacturer in the wood sports flooring industry has had their flooring tested using the DIN Standards. In fact, we still regularly have our flooring tested to ensure that it still maintains the quality needed to pass these exacting standards.
But we don’t limit ourselves to testing just for safety. We also test our product for its physical characteristics. Flame testing, expansion testing, moisture testing, finish testing, and testing to see how our product reacts to water spills are just some of the many ways that we have our wood flooring examined. All of these are to try to determine how we can create the best performing floor, and what changes we can make to make it perform even better. We invest quite a bit in all this testing, so feel free to ask us about the reports – we’re happy to share results with you.