Safety is not seasonal
Golf is increasingly becoming a year-round sport, subsequently this means the club’s maintenance tasks will increase and the quieter period when maintenance is usually scheduled will decrease.
Category Archives: Gripclad Blog
Are your Car Park Areas really stepping up to the mark?
Whether it is a car park in an airport, hospital, supermarket, train station or a shopping centre, these public areas receive a size-able footfall and revenue.
When the boat comes in, we have to get a move on!
We’ve recently helped Red Funnel Ferries with a gangway refurbishment with our anti-slip panels, in quick time!
Service Riser Safety
By now we hope you know that GripClad specialises in all things produced from GRP composites, and this covers anti-slip solutions and safety access. It is the latter we want to bring to your attention – our GRP Gratings are often used as an application in the construction industry, predominately for service riser voids. Service […]
Are you planning some Summer holiday maintenance?
For a lot of industries, the school Summer holidays are a time for maintenance as lots of staff take leave. There are usually fewer people about which enables maintenance staff or contractors to get on with well needed maintenance jobs. And, of course, this is most true for schools, colleges, and universities – when ‘school’s out for Summer!’.
Faversham Golf Club remove their artificial grass in favour of GripClad Sheeting
Recently Faversham Golf Club‘s Course manager found that the steps around the course looked like they were in need of a bit of ‘TLC’ and they were becoming slippery.
The things you probably don’t know about Decking…
The myth about Decking ridges In decking construction there is one question that is sure to ignite passionate argument: Should decking ridges face up or down? There are debates that just won’t end. Decking timber usually has ridges that run along the length of the board. Also called “grooves” or “reeds”. These ridges on […]
The use of GRP Flooring is growing
Most commercial and industrial flooring access is time-consuming to put together, whether it is straight to the subfloor or a raised elevated structural floor project, either way, it’s usually quite labour intensive. In the commercial and industrial sectors, specifiers and developers are still using traditional flooring material such as metal, wood or concrete, but it’s heavy, and […]
April Showers could mean slips, trips & falls
Oscar Wilde said the conversation about it was the last refuge of the unimaginative, while Bill Bryson noted that it’s most striking characteristic is that there isn’t much of it. The weather – and the British obsession with talking about it – has been puzzling outsiders for decades. Rainy weather means slippery surfaces, but this […]
We love our Surface Mounted Corduroy Tactiles
The purpose of a corduroy surface is to warn visually impaired people of the presence of specific hazards such as; steps, level crossings or the approach to on-street light rapid transit (LRT) platforms. It is also used where a footway joins a shared route. It conveys the message of ‘hazard, proceed with caution’. At GripClad, […]