Hair salon owners have long purchased FreeStyle commercial flooring for its ease of installation and the comfort and support it provides stylists. SelecTech, makers of FreeStyle tiles, recently conducted a stain test on its FreeStyle Commercial Resilient Tiles, the type most commonly used by hair salons, to demonstrate a third major benefit—stain resistance.
“You think of a hair salon floor and you think hair, but spilled dyes are the true maintenance issue,” said Thomas Ricciardelli, president of SelecTech. “What compounds the dye spillage issue is sometimes those spills go undetected and can settle in on the flooring and become permanent. With this test, we wanted to use a worst-case scenario where stains remained on the tile for one, three, six hours and for one full 24-hour day. And we used an amount of dye that no salon would ever not notice over those periods of time.”