wood – human – health / mafi floors for clinical practices

It’s not a secret anymore that wood as a natural material is in a very unique constellation with human and health. As long as the wood is left in a natural way and not is laquered it can spread all the positive benefits that comes with nature.

Fritz Fillafer, founder and CEO of mafi, knows a lot of  wooden floors and characteristics. He was interviewed in an Austrian floor magazine where he stated that wooden floors are perfect for clinical practices where hygienic standards are very high. Fillafer proved the theory with tests and papers by the Institute of Building Biology and Ecology Neubeuern, Germany and the Institute for Environmental Medicine and Hospital Hygiene at the University Freiburg, Germany.

Due to the fact that more bacterias are able to survive on plastic materials than on wood, a dentist in Switzerland already installed a mafi floor instead of typical “hygienic” plastic floors. Even if Pines are especially recommandable also the Tigeroak in the swiss practice is proper for clinical use.

Other attributes of natural oiled wooden floors:

• regulation of room humidity
• free from static electricity
• diffusibility
• warmer feeling beacuase of brushed and oiled finish (compared to all other surfaces and finishes)
• filtrates cigarette smoke
• …

For more information please visit the mafi website.

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