SSHY Closed Dec 6-8, 2012... bye, bye carpet!
Thursday, November 29, 2012 at 4:20PM | Author SSHY tagged Bikram yoga Winnipeg, hot yoga Winnipeg in SSHY news Yes, dear yogis, the hour is upon us! We will be closed Dec 6 - 8 because...
... after many faithful years, the carpet is being removed from our Bikram studio.
Cue the applause!
We have made the decision not to replace it with new carpet, but rather something called resilient flooring. It has texture like carpet, but that is where the similarities end.
High-tech, anti-microbial, non-absorbent, anti-slip, odor-resistant, waterproof, cooks dinner Friday night and does the dishes, too. And though we rarely close throughout the year, these 3 days will definitely be worth it! Doors re-open December 9th.
There is a BIG SALE going on RIGHT NOW to commemorate the new Flotex flooring. Don't miss out on the hot yoga savings!
Reader Comments (2)
Was just wondering how you keep this new flooring clean as to me it would seem hard to do .People constantly sweating into it. I recently came to a class in your studio and had to leave the room to go to the BR and upon returning could smell a very strong fungus smell not unlike that of a hockey lockeroom. Just thinking hardwoods may have been a better choice. Thankyou
Our sense of smell gets used to its environment very quickly, as anyone who is cooking and then left the house will tell you, as upon returning the smell of the food being cooked seems much stronger than remembered. Yes, people sweat in a Bikram yoga class, and in the middle of class, the room probably smells sweaty. But hockey locker rooms typically smell of sweat, not fungus, and that is probably what you smelled, since you are in a room full of people who are sweating profusely. Even when we removed our old carpet after 3 1/2 years of use, there was no fungus or mould, and that was an inferior flooring to what we have now. Do not worry, there is no mould, fungus, bacteria, or anything of the type; this new floor we installed at SSHY is amazing in it's resilience to bacteria, mould, and fungus. As well, it's design allows for maximum potential in cleaning. To top it off, the base of the flooring is a sealed rubber substrate, so there is nowhere for sweat to sneak off to and hide, which could also create bacteria problems. We take many precautions and cleaning steps to ensure that the cleanliness of the floor is maintained at a very high standard.
On a side note, with all the sweat that pours out of people's bodies, how could hardwood possibly be a good choice? It would be slippery as heck when other people drip sweat on it, the wood would warp and probably mould as the moisture penetrated into the cracks (and that would happen no matter HOW well you tried to seal it), and most sealants contain VOC's that off-gas into the air, more-so when they are heated. I love the aesthetic of hardwood in homes, but in a Bikram hot yoga studio, where the room is hot and people actually DO sweat, it is a recipe for disaster.