The Refloor System is being developed primarily to be able to renovate and/or level floors. The system consists of panels and pedestals. The pedestals purpose is to carry the panels, determine the height of the newly created floor, level the floor surface and to merge the neighbouring panels together.

Refloor has several major advantages over existing raised access flooring systems that are currently being used for the same purpose.
With the Refloor System it is no longer necessary to first draw a grid pattern on the subfloor to determine where the pedestals have to be glued onto the subfloor.

Using the Refloor System the pedestals are inserted into the panels. With Refloor, adhesives are no longer needed and the pedestals are always in a perfect 90 degree angle towards the panel, guaranteeing optimal floor stability and no waiting time for adhesives to dry.

Inserting the pedestals into the panels has an additional advantage; the pedestals will always be perfectly positioned underneath the panel. In a conventional raised access flooring system where pedestals are glued to the subfloor any deviation in this process will lead to suboptimal positioning of the pedestal leading to problems in strength, stability and height differences between neighbouring panels, see figure 2.

As shown in figure 1, the pedestals are inserted into the panel board. One of the great features of the Refloor System is that adjustment and readjustment can be done with a simple tool, like a screwdriver, from the top.

Figure 3 shows a close-up of the actual pedestal. As shown in the picture, one unit actually consists of 3 pedestals held together by a spring construction. The purpose of the spring is to create the flexibility needed during installation and to pull and keep neighbouring panels together. The current prototypes of the Refloor System panels are rectangular and have a size of 100 x 50 cm.

This size makes it easy for one person to install the panels. Depending on the weight of the panels an alternative size could be 120 x 60 cm. It is also possible to use square panels. In this case a pedestal unit would consist of four individual panels held together by a spring construction. The expected optimal size for a square panel is 60 x 60 cm. However, the ideal panel size depends ultimately on the product properties of the panel material.

Some of the major advantages of the Refloor System are:

• Elimination of the main shortcomings of conventional lower raised access flooring systems
• Extreme flexibility; adjustments for height and levelling are also possible after instalment
• Absence of adhesives and drying time
• Avoidance of damage to the subfloor, therefore also ideal for use in monumental buildings
• Possibility for cable management
• Sustainability; at the end of the product life cycle, every element can be reused.