We offer top-quality floor coatings to make public restroom flooring safer, long-lasting, and easier to clean.
Public restrooms are shared sanitary facilities provided in public spaces such as parks, shopping centers, transportation hubs, schools, stadiums, and government buildings. Their primary purpose is to offer accessible, hygienic, and private environments for personal needs in areas where people gather or travel.
A properly designed resinous floor system ensures long-term durability, odor resistance, and easy cleanability, while maintaining a bright, professional appearance. With customizable finishes and color options, facilities can enhance both function and aesthetics, ensuring public restrooms remain safe, clean, and welcoming for all users.
Key Functions:
Sanitation & Hygiene
Their primary purpose is to provide a clean, safe place for urination, defecation, and handwashing.
Accessibility
They must comply with ADA (Americans with Disabilities Act) or local accessibility codes. This includes providing accessible stalls, sinks, and entryways. They also require grab bars, space for wheelchairs, and appropriate signage.
Privacy
They must ensure adequate privacy for users with partitioned stalls with doors and locks, urinal screens (in men’s rooms), and consideration for all-gender or family restrooms.
Safety & Security
They should minimize the risk of accidents, assaults, or misuse by incorporating good visibility and lighting, materials that resist vandalism, and emergency assistance systems (in some locations).
Durability & Maintainability
Public restrooms receive high foot traffic and are frequently cleaned. The use of heavy-duty fixtures and durable materials (floors, partitions, and walls) help to make cleaning surfaces easier.
Odor Control & Ventilation
Proper ventilation systems help to remove unpleasant odors, reduce humidity (which prevents mold/mildew), and improve user comfort and air quality.
Water & Energy Efficiency
The use of low-flow fixtures, automatic sensors to conserve water and energy, and energy-efficient lighting offers efficiency.
Inclusivity & Gender Sensitivity
Modern designs often include gender-neutral or family restrooms, baby-changing stations in all-gender spaces, and accommodations for caregivers or personal aides.
Compliance with Health Codes
They must meet local plumbing, fire, and health codes, which ensures adequate fixture count based on occupancy, proper waste disposal, and regular sanitation and maintenance protocols.
Flooring Requirements:
Slip Resistance
Public restroom flooring must have a slip-resistant surface, especially when wet. Textured finishes or built-in grit additives help prevent falls. Compliance with ADA and OSHA safety standards is often required in public buildings.
Waterproof & Impermeable
Floors must be watertight to prevent moisture from seeping into subfloors. Ideal flooring systems are monolithic (seamless) to avoid grout joints and cracks. Coved flooring (cove base) that extends up the wall is often used to form a watertight transition.
Chemical & Stain Resistant
Public restrooms are frequently cleaned with harsh chemicals, so the flooring must withstand cleaning and degradation or stains with routine cleaning. Other compositions that floors must hold up to are urine, soap, sanitizers, and disinfectants.
Ease of Maintenance
Materials that should be considered are non-porous and smooth enough to allow easy cleaning and disinfection. They should not harbor bacteria or mold. Seamless systems (like resinous coatings) are best for infection control.
Thermal Shock & Moisture Tolerance
Floors should withstand temperature swings, especially in bathrooms with showers. In humid environments, they must resist mold and mildew growth.
Code Compliance
Public buildings must meet building codes, ADA requirements, and local health regulations. Fire resistance may be necessary in certain commercial or institutional settings.
At Floor Coating Source, we are a trusted provider of premium commercial floor coatings and are proud to serve clients throughout Florida. If you are looking for floor coatings to meet the unique demands of your public restroom flooring, look no further—we can supply effective products that make your public restroom flooring safer, stain and chemical resistant, slip resistant, waterproof, and easier to clean.
Contact us to learn more about the flooring products we offer and how they can improve your public restrooms.