Care & retirement
Homes that never empty.
Slip-resistant, dementia-aware floors for care homes, planned around residents' routines and installed by DBS-checked teams.
Day, night and weekend working. Planned around the routine of the home.
What care and retirement work demands.
Residents stay in while the work happens
Work has to fit around meals, medication rounds and sleep, with secure doors kept secure throughout.
Dementia-friendly design needs careful specification
The floor should help residents living with dementia find their way, never make them hesitate.
Wet rooms need grip without an institutional look
Coved edges and a tested wet slip rating, in colours and textures that still feel like a home, not a hospital.
Used to buildings that stay open.
For Priory Healthcare we fitted welded safety vinyl and coved skirting for a ward refurbishment. Every installer we send is DBS-checked and used to working alongside staff.
In a care home that usually means slip-resistant safety vinyl in bathrooms and en-suites, carpet that copes with wheelchairs and hoists in lounges and bedrooms, and plain, steady tones chosen with residents living with dementia in mind.
Clients in care and retirement
- Priory Healthcare
For specifiers
What the specification needs to cover.
The points a care home flooring specification normally addresses, especially where residents live with dementia.
- Dementia-friendly finishes
- Matt, plain or subtly patterned floors are generally recommended. Strong patterns, speckles and dark areas can be read as objects, steps or holes.
- Steady tones between rooms
- Avoid sharp changes in floor colour or tone at doorways. A strong contrast across a threshold can look like a step and cause hesitation.
- Contrast between floor and walls
- Visual contrast between the floor and the walls helps people judge the size of a room. BS 8300 and Approved Document M give guidance, measured by light reflectance value (LRV).
- Slip resistance where it is wet
- Bathrooms, en-suites and kitchens need slip-resistant safety flooring, usually with coved skirting so the edges can be kept clean.
- Wheelchairs, hoists and frames
- Firm, flat floors make wheelchairs, hoists and walking frames easier to move. A low, dense pile is easier to push over than a deep one.
General guidance to raise at specification stage, not a substitute for it. Always check the current documents and the manufacturer's test data for the product chosen.
Floors we fit in care and retirement.
Planning work in a care home?
Tell us about the home and its routines. We will survey, quote and plan the install room by room around residents.