Shanghai school lay eco-friendly rubber flooring

In a time when we’re all thinking about sustainability you might not necessarily think about rubber flooring as a good call when thinking of flooring options. But let us tell you, in terms of doing your effort for the green movement there’s fewer flooring solutions that will give you more green points.
Don’t believe [...]

Flooring alternatives that are cost effective

In our present economical downturn, keeping costs down is a on the top of most people’s list. But how do you spruce up your home without spending too much? Flooring ladies and gentlemen, that’s how. Flooring is one of the most important factors in a room. It can influence the temperature of [...]

Rubber flooring for the boy scouts

There’s so many ways that rubber flooring can be utilised these days. We all know that they used to be the flooring choice for factories, but rubber flooring in the modern world is used for everything from boy scout hideaways through to modern apartments.
Architectural company, Gensler, recently produced the EcoCabin (perfect for cub scouts). [...]

NEW Slate Rubber Floor Tiles

Following the popularity of the studded and marble rubber floor tiles, UK flooring bring you a new range of rubber floor tiles with a traditional feel.
The tiles have the look of slate yet they aren’t cold or rough to the touch.
The slate rubber tiles are ideal for the use on any bathroom floor large or [...]

Coir’s just too cool these days…

Gone are the days when coir (coconut husk) matting was the preserve of matronly households and stamp collector types.

You can be assured that you won’t need to be putting leather elbow patches on Norwegian knit jumpers in order to pass of this little collection of cutesy coir doormats.
Keeping it natural, designer Ed Annink based these [...]

DOORMATS FOR SAFER FLOORS

The HSE (Health and Safety Executive) continues to promote its Shattered Lives Campaign which focuses on the need to reduce slip-related accidents in different sectors of business.
Accidents caused by slipping can be extremely distressing and remain alarmingly high in terms of statistics.  For some unfortunate individuals, it can lead to a lifetime of disability and [...]

Horses to get help with Equine Grass Sickness

A survey conducted by the Animal Health Trust (AHT), the Universities of Edinburgh and Liverpool and the Equine Grass Sickness Fund is asking horse owners and vets to share information in the first equine grass sickness survey.
Equine grass sickness (EGS) is an incurable disease which is usually fatal that was first discovered in 1907. Researchers [...]

Man’s Best Friend becomes his Competitor

The Welsh Llanwrtyd Wells Man v Horse race is madness quite frankly.
Pitting themselves against the elements and on a supposedly level playing field, individual runners endure a 22-mile race though the hills surrounding Llanwrtyd Wells all the while trying the beat horses to the finish line.
That alone sounds difficult, without adding in to the [...]

Not every Horse steals the show – and that’s alright by New Zealand

With viewers claiming that it’s offensive to watch animals fornicating on television, the country’s Advertising Standards Authority has quashed their complaints, reporting the footage might be juvenile but certainly not gratuitous or offensive.
Additionally, they informed the public, that it was technically impossible for the animals to “fornicate”.
The advert itself gravitates around the notion that [...]

Field Frolics producing unwanted Foals

Controversial news as state-subsidised castration of stallions hits the US equine agenda.
The cause, that groups are campaigning for across the American nation, would help resolve the currently unmanageable situation where horse rescue centres are inundated with foals produced as a result of poor breeding practices.
The Kentucky and Minnesota Horse Councils are promoting an incentive scheme [...]