We will be exploring the vacuum cleaner market with our flexi-felt floor protector early in the new year. Like with flooring retailers The flexi-felt is also a natural add-on product for vacuum cleaner dealers. We will keep you posted as new retailers come on board.
Category Archives: School supply
Teachers Want a Floor Protector That Will Stay On!
It’s back to school time and while teachers are running around getting everything organized in the classroom, the last thing they need is to deal with students throwing around tennis balls or other types of floor protectors in the classroom. Over 8 years ago we created the Flexi-Felt line of quality floor protectors. As good as they are they are not impossible to remove. The blend with the decor not to attract the kids attention but they are still removable if a student really wants to get them off. Well that is all about to end. We are working on creating the first manually impossible to remove floor protector. This will revolutionize the floor protection industry as they will not only be guaranteed against wear but they will also have a lifetime guarantee against removal. Stay tune in for more details in the weeks to come.
Parents are tired of buying tennis balls for school chairs.
Every year I get asked the same thing “why don’t schools just buy the flexi-Felt instead of asking parents to buy tennis balls”. The answer is simple “BUDGETS”. The schools would prefer to pay 3 times more over 5 years than to go over budget one single year. This is the sad thruth for many public expenditures. Instead of paying 1000$ once and be done with it for 5 years they prefer to pay 400$ a year plus 300$ in installation (different budget) every year totalling 3500$ instead of 1000$. I see this time and time again.
Some schools are now pushing that expense to the parents. They are now asking the parents to buy tennis balls. Most parents have no idea why they need to buy tennis balls. When they finally understand the concept, 9 out of 10 would much rather buy a Flexi-Felt once for the whole 5 year cycle than to have to buy tennis balls every year (sometimes twice a year). This is especially true when they understand the health hazards associated with tennis balls. Some schools told me they couldn’t put the Flexi-Felt on the required school supply list because they couldn’t favor one product brand over another. I understand that concept and it makes a lot of sense, except when they request “tennis balls”, they are excluding everything else. Maybe the supply lists should say “non adhesive floor protectors”. This way parents can chose to get a high quality floor protector for their children versus the colorful dust bombs.