Life Floor
Prairie Surfaces is a Registered Aquatic Partner and Certified Installer of Life Floor
Prairie Surfaces is a Registered Aquatic Partner and Certified Installer of Life Floor.
We want choosing your aquatic flooring to be an easy decision. Here’s how Life Floor makes it easy.
Endless potential for interactive design
World leading safety criteria
Only product to meet NSF safety standards
What makes Life Floor so special?
Prairie Surfaces is a Registered Aquatic Partner and Certified Installer of Life Floor
What is Life Floor?
Life Floor is an aquatic surface engineered with industry-leading safety technology and limitless design potential. Designs can be created with standard shapes that include squares, triangles, rectangles, hexagons, and planks or with custom options that span the imagination. The standard product thickness is 3/8”. Life Floor tiles are modular, allowing for custom designs that complement any aquatic amenity.
Tile maintenance is straightforward, involving three types of cleaners and three steps: Apply, Scrub, Rinse + Recover. Tiles are impermeable and do not support microbial growth. In fact, Life Floor tiles achieve a 99.9% reduction in bacteria after sanitization, including the joints between the tiles when sanitation follows the Model Aquatic Health Code.
Life Floor is made with a closed cell technology, which means it does not absorb any liquid, harbor bacteria, or support microbial growth. In fact, Life Floor tiles experience a 99.9% reduction of bacteria after being sanitized, including the joints between the tiles.
Slips and falls are a main concern in any water play environment. Life Floor offers incredible traction and slip-resistance without being abrasive and is cushioned for bare feet. Life Floors tiles remain this way for their lifespan without reapplication, unlike many coatings on the market. If one tile is damaged, it can be replaced modularly without the visible patching commonly seen with alternative surfaces such as pour-in-place rubber. Life Floor offers a 5 year material warranty and requires Certified Installers to provide a minimum of 1 year installation warranty.
Life Floor is commonly used in areas that require a forgiving, slip-resistant surface. These areas include pool decks, splash pads, waterparks, locker rooms, bathrooms, zero-depth entries of any kind, and underwater applications. The product’s finishing details include depth markers, no-diving symbols, Landing Pads for water slides, and more.
Your flooring is the single biggest feature in a water play area, offering the greatest potential for play and transforming guest experience. Explore the Life Floor difference.
NSF/ANSI/CAN 50 Certification
Life Floor’s NSF/ANSI 50 certification makes it the first product in the world to meet all six unique performance-based criteria for splash pads! These standards include slip resistance, impact attenuation, UV resistance, chemical resistance, cleanability and impermeability.
What to Expect From Your Floor
Slip-Resistance
Certified surfaces are slip-resistant to minimize slip-and-fall injuries. Meeting the criteria requires a 40 British Pendulum Number (BPN) and a P4 on the Australian Standard. Life Floor exceeds this criteria with a 65 BPN and P5 rating.
Impact Attenuation
Certified surfaces must be cushioned to absorb inevitable falls. The standard requires a HIC (Head Injury Criterion) value of 750, with a .20 meter minimum fall height. Life Floor is certified to this standard with a 74 HIC.
Impermeability
Impermeability is important so that foreign substances such as sunscreen, fertilizer run-off, and other hazardous substances do not absorb into the tile. Life Floor is certified to this criteria with 99.7% Impermeability.
Cleanability
Life Floor is made from a closed-cell foam, which means it does not harbor bacteria, or support microbial growth. During testing, our tiles experienced a 99.9% reduction of bacteria after being sanitized, including the joints of tiles.
Chemical Resistance
Surfaces must remain slip-resistant and impact attenuating after undergoing exposure to high chemical shock periods without showing signs of erosion. Unlike ceramic or painted depth markers, our tiles also retain color contrast and visual clarity after chemical exposure which is important for safety messaging and depth markers.
UV Resistance
Resistance to UV radiation is essential, as many splash pads experience intense, year-long sun exposure. During testing, erosion is not acceptable if it comprises the surface’s traction and impact attenuation. Life Floor is certified to this standard.
What does this mean for you?
Although not mandatory, it is always in a facility’s best interest to adhere to NSF standards in terms of both operational excellence and risk mitigation. Meeting NSF standards for sanitation, health and safety provide facilities additional protection from potential lawsuits. The NSF/ANSI 50 standard reduces the chance of injuries. However, should an accident occur, operators can point to the fact that they were operating under the best and safest practices in the industry.
Life Floor Design Studio
Indoor or outdoor, splash pad or pool deck, Life Floor’s colors can be used to design the best looking space for any space. We encourage clients to use 3 or more colors when designing their space. Multi-coloured floors are more visually interesting and easier to maintain. The more colors a floor has, the more appealing it is, and the more difficult it is to notice dirt. Please contact us for pre designed color themes and patterns for inspiration.