Honiton Leisure Centre provides the local community with a raft of facilities that bolster both health and fitness through sports and exercise. When their thirty-five-year-old Granwood floor needed replacing with a more sustainable eco-flooring solution. they turned to international flooring specialist Gerflor to supply 700m2 of their new Taraflex® Performance SL (Sustainable Loose lay) sports vinyl flooring in ‘Light Cherry’.
Honiton Leisure Centre in East Devon is owned by East Devon District Council and operated by LED Community Leisure Ltd. LED. East Devon Council and LED had previously teamed up with Gerflor, for a successful sports hall refurbishment project using Taraflex® in Axminster.
Rob Walker, Gerflor Area Sales Manager for the Southwest, and Channel Islands said, “The sub-floor at Honiton was an old Granwood sports floor that provided minimal protection for users and was increasingly costly to maintain. East Devon Council and LED have used our Olympic pedigree Taraflex® sports vinyl products before at other sites. This refurbishment gave us the opportunity to build upon this history and present our new Taraflex® Performance SL as a sustainable and economical alternative that would significantly reducing the overall cost of the replacement considerably.”
Commenting on the project Simon Allchurch, Consultant Building Surveyor with East Devon District Council said, “The Gerflor Taraflex® Performance SL sports flooring is exceeding our expectations by a long way on both performance and durability.”
The need to install the specified Taraflex® Performance SL flooring to the very highest standards would be the responsibility of Exeter-based Unicraft Flooring Contractors Ltd. Simon Yeo, Managing Director Unicraft Flooring Contractors Ltd commented,” We would certainly want to work with Gerflor and its Taraflex® Performance SL sports flooring products again and as an installer we are extremely pleased with the end result. We would definitely, if given the opportunity, select Gerflor’s Taraflex sports floorings for future projects.”
Adding further comment to the project Chris Duchenski, Leisure Manager at Honiton Leisure Centre said, “Taraflex® was specified because the quality and the feedback we have had from other customers who have used this floor or have it within their centres has been nothing short of excellent.”