Who Needs the Toughest Detectable Warning Systems?

The toughest detectable warning systems available are easy to come by, and are much more affordable than you might imagine. Truncated dome detectable warning systems are available in a vast array of materials. Some are so pathetic that they don’t even last one season. Some rubber mats are such a poor solution that they fade, bubble, delaminate, and tear; and to top it off, they are slippery when wet! Some cheap plastic tiles are so weak that they fail under pedestrian traffic in less than a year. Thermally applied systems often crack, break, and have domes pop off in short order. Who needs the toughest detectable warning systems available? Perhaps you do.

Toughest Detectable Warning Systems

Do you realize that your curb ramps are convenient places for pallet jacks and forklifts to be able to gain entrance to stores for stocking product on a daily basis? Many communities have this sort of situation, and should only consider installing the toughest detectable warning systems. You may have intentional or unintentional contact by the blade of a snow plow a dozen times a year. Only the toughest detectable warning systems can stand up to that abuse. When they lay out the new residential subdivisions, chances are that they build the streets, sidewalks, curbs and gutters first, and then set about the task of building the houses. And when they do, you can bet that rocks and debris will be scattered on the detectable warnings, and then tractors and forklifts will be routinely driving over them, delivering tons of brick, rock, lumber, and the like. You must install the toughest detectable warning systems available, if you want the best chance of having the tactile warnings survive until the houses are completed.

Advantage Tactile Systems has produced the finest and toughest detectable warning systems available. Their highly corrosion-resistant stainless steel tile is tough as nails and made to stand up to all sorts of abuse. If you want the toughest detectable warning systems available, check out www.advantagetactile.com.

By Mark Heimlich