[Publib] Slate Tile Flooring

[Meghan Miller Brawley]

I've not seen slate in a library, but the hospital nearby just built a new
wing and put slate tile floor all through the first level. Because it's so
uneven, they've since had to put signs everywhere telling people to be
careful and not trip on the floor -- and in a hospital, with
sick/weak/elderly people at various levels of mobility, it seems like slate
was a really dumb idea. Libraries also have to be accessible, and it might
be too uneven for elderly, disabled, small children, strollers, pregnant
women, wheelchairs, etc etc.

Are you putting flooring in an existing building, or planning a new
building? If it's a new building, I've seen scored concrete work wonderfully
-- it's fairly inexpensive because you just stain and wax the building slab,
scored to look like tile, and it holds up well. I think does have to be
waxed annually, but there may be better methods now that I don't know about.

-Meghan


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