COUNTERBALANCE COLLECTION PROPEL

Product catalog summary

Introduction
J+J Flooring Group, a family-owned company established in 1957, is a leading U.S. manufacturer of commercial flooring. The company focuses on delivering products that combine beauty, performance, and dependability.

Product Overview
Kinetex is an innovative textile composite flooring that merges the benefits of soft-surface and hard-surface flooring, suitable for environments like retail, healthcare, and education. It offers a reduced environmental footprint compared to traditional hard-surface options.

Key Features

Construction: Features a cushioned backing, polyester felt, and a thermally fused wear layer resistant to abrasion and unraveling.
Moisture Management: Handles relative humidity levels up to 95% and 99% with PreFix, allowing moisture passage through the backing.
Installation: Easy installation with J+J Flooring Group’s releasable adhesive or PreFix pre-applied adhesive strips.
Maintenance: Easy to clean with vacuuming and low moisture encapsulation cleaning, bleach resistant, and quick drying.
Cost Efficiency: Offers significant cost savings over hard-surface floors, with a life cycle cost approximately 51% less than rubber flooring.

Performance Attributes

Durability: Exhibits outstanding dimensional stability and crush resistance, enduring over 5 million foot traffic events.
Safety: Provides a highly slip-resistant surface, reducing slip and fall injuries.
Acoustics: Offers high noise reduction coefficients and impact insulation classifications, enhancing voice recognition and reducing noise.
Sustainability: Has a 50% lower environmental impact, with over 55% recycled content and NSF/ANSI-140 Platinum certification.

Sustainability Initiatives
J+J Flooring Group is a Zero Waste to Landfill manufacturer with a comprehensive sustainability progress report and an R4 program for recycling carpet samples and architect folders.

Customer Experience
Emphasizes a Premium Customer Experience, ensuring reliable products and services through a disciplined framework.

Design Coordination
Products are designed for effortless coordination, blending designs and tonal simplicity to meet unique space demands.

Introduction
This document details the Propel 1817 modular carpet by J+J Flooring Group, highlighting its visual, physical, and environmental attributes, testing results, installation methods, warranties, and accolades.

Specifications

Physical Characteristics: Features a wear layer of Universal Fibers solution-dyed polyester and a polyester felt cushion backing, with a total weight of 4.5 oz – 5.2 oz per square foot and a thickness of 0.205 inches. Modules are 24 x 24 inches, with 18 modules per box covering 72 square feet.
Environmental Attributes: 100% closed-loop recyclable with over 55% recycled content, contributing to LEED scorecard IEQ 4.1 and IEQ 4.3, and holds a platinum NSF/ANSI 140 certification.

Testing and Performance

Testing: Meets standards including Class 1 flooring radiant panel, smoke density less than 450, electrostatic propensity less than 3.0 kv, and colorfastness ratings of 4.0 or greater. Complies with ADA guidelines for slip resistance and has a thermal insulation R-value of 4.
Noise and Impact Insulation: NRC rating of 0.30 and IIC rating of 64.

Installation and Maintenance

Installation Methods: Can be installed using the quarter turn method with J+J Flooring Group’s Kinetex Adhesive, allowing easy module replacement.
Warranties: Lifetime warranties cover product performance, colorfastness, stain removal, static protection, edge ravel protection, delamination failure, and dimensional stability.

Accolades
The Kinetex product line has received awards such as the 2015 Nightingale Award Gold for Hard Surface, 2015 Best of NeoCon Silver Award, and 2014 Top Ten Green Building Product.

Conclusion
The Propel 1817 modular carpet is a durable and environmentally friendly flooring option with extensive testing and numerous accolades, offering flexible installation and maintenance backed by comprehensive lifetime warranties.

Catalog excerpts

COUNTERBALANCE COLLECTION

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From our establishment in 1957, we have become one of the oldest exclusive manufacturers of commercial flooring in the United States. As one of the largest privately held mills, our FAMILY-OWNERSHIP a heritage of proven performance and expansive industry knowledge. Most importantly, our focus has always been on people... ensuring them that our products deliver the highest levels of BEAUTY, PERFORMANCE (cover) Propel Guide with Nudge accent, quarter turn (right) Propel Roll, with Shunt accent, quarter turn. PROPEL

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(above) Propel Guide, quarter turn.

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kinetex overview where to use kinetex Healthcare (left) Propel Advance with Pop Morado inset, quarter turn and Nudge, quarter turn. (below) Propel Outpace with Advance accent,quarter turn. Fitness Centers Acute care hospitals, medical office buildings, urgent care clinics, outpatient surgery Health Clubs/Gyms • Dry Locker Room Areas Kinetex® is an advanced textile composite flooring that combines centers, outpatient physical therapy/rehab centers, outpatient imaging centers, etc. key attributes of soft-surface floor covering with the long-wearing • Cafeteria, dining areas performance characteristics...

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Kinetex Installation Installing Kinetex is as easy as traditional modular carpet, however special attention should be applied until installers gain experience with module placement. Installers should perform site and material conditioning, surface preparation, concrete pH and moisture testing as if they were installing J+J Flooring Group carpet modules. Roller Mobility Safety (and for the Multitudes) Kinetex’s unique construction creates one of the most slip resistant flooring surfaces ever tested, wet or dry — reducing the potential for slip and fall injuries. Its unique low profile also has...

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product flexibilities corporate programs ALTERNATE ADHESIVES PreFix™ Pre-Applied Releasable Adhesive In 2007, we developed the R4 program (return, reuse, recycle, reduce) specifically for our customers across the country to facilitate the recycling of all Invision carpet samples and architect folders that are no longer needed. J+J PreFix, a quick installation for all Kinetex textile composite flooring products. The release liner easily peels away to reveal a series of pre-applied adhesive strips that securely anchor the Kinetex module in place. Green Circle - Zero Waste to Landfill Operations...

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colorline overview coordinating palette Analog Mono Beyond the beauty of individual products, our flooring coordinates effortlessly with each other. This offering enables you to blend a range of designs with tonal simplicity to create palettes that reflect the demands of each unique space.

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product details Phyical Characteristics wear layer backing Universal Fibers SM As a global leader in the production of solution dyed fiber in multiple chemistries, Universal Fibers enjoys a well-earned reputation for partnered innovation. Our durable lightweight PET fiber delivers unmatched performance for stain and abrasion resistance, colorfastness, and ease in care and maintenance. And, since Universal Fibers’ products are solution dyed, zero water is used in the dye process. total thickness (nominal average) We stand behind every aspect of Kinetex and extend certain lifetime warranties. Each...

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