school lockers Archives - Carroll Seating Company

Published: 18 August 2016

Written by Carroll Seating

No comments

Categories: Locker Solutions

A school locker room can be one of the most unsettling places in the world. You have to change your clothes, do so in the presence of classmates, and leave all your personal items in an often times unsupervised dungeon. This can be pretty scary. This means it is the school’s responsibility to provide safe and comfortable places to change clothes, and often that means better locker rooms (and thus better school lockers).

The Importance of the Safe Locker Room

Nothing is more satisfying than knowing you are being looked after in a difficult situation. In a school locker room, this means giving your students privacy and the assurance that they are protected in a vulnerable situation. Regardless of the circumstances, needing to change for a gym class or sport is a difficult thing, and the right gym lockers can help give your students the privacy and security they need.

Maximize Your Layout

When re-doing a school locker room, the first thing to consider is the layout. The lockers should be set in a way that promotes privacy while changing, but also an open floor plan to guarantee people never feel vulnerable. An open locker layout and connected changing stalls are a great way to give students privacy while also having the security of being in a group.

Choose the Right Lockers

With children having more expansive equipment in their pockets than ever before, it is imperative to supply secure lockers. Quality athletic lockers are an extremely important aspect in making sure students actively participate in athletic activities. If they are always worried about their things being stolen or messed with, they are going to be less likely to participate.

The right layout is a very tricky beast to wrangle. You have to worry about providing privacy while also eliminating vulnerability. Carroll Seating Company has immense experience walking this thin line and what’s more, we offer some of most premier equipment available. With us as a resource, you’ll get the perfect locker room every single time.

Published: 29 June 2016

Written by Carroll Seating

No comments

Categories: Locker Solutions

That final bell has gone off, the students have deserted the building for the next three months, and it’s time to get to work. You want your building to look amazing when they come back, and that can mean some serious renovation. One change that will make your space look amazing? New lockers!

Do Lockers Actually Matter?

Many administrators don’t actually value locker conditions, and for good reason. It’s been some time since most administrators and teachers alike have wandered through the halls as students. Think back to your middle and high school days, thought, to answer that question. Did your locker matter? Absolutely! It was the one space you could count on while switching from room to room all day. It was the one space in the building that was yours. Complete with posters, customizable shelves, and that pair of gym shorts at the back you kept forgetting to take home, it was an important space in your life, and it is in the lives of your students as well.

Deciding on the Right Upgrades

If you’re not sure what upgrades to make, you may want to consider the following checklist.

Consider Size First: There’s only so much space in the building, so if you can nail down the right locker size from the outset, you’re going to make your search quite a bit easier. Decide whether a full locker or a two tiered system might best meet the needs of your students. Think carefully about how often they hit their lockers between classes, what gets stored, and more to decide on the right lockers to meet your needs.
Added Features: Lockers aren’t what they once were. In fact, there are many features to choose from you hadn’t considered in today’s lockers. If you go with recessed handles, you’re going to find far fewer snags on student clothing and backpacks. Decide whether you need single point locking or multi-point locking to help protect a student’s possessions. You may even want to go witih electronic keypads to help eliminate the more traditional locker padlocks.
Think Assembly: How much time does your maintenance staff have to deal with the locker issue? It’s possible that there’s not much time, so decide whether you want to waste that time assembling lockers or whether you’d prefer to buy something preassembled.
Don’t Forget Appearance: Lockers can look amazing! Go with school colors, varied door colors, and more to help enhance how those lockers look and how students feel about your space.

Summer is the perfect time to upgrade student lockers. Get busy with that project now. Contact us today to help select the perfect school lockers for your space.

Published: 31 May 2016

Written by Carroll Seating

No comments

Categories: Locker Solutions

Choosing new hall lockers for your students? You certainly have your work cut out for you. Whether you’re designing a brand new building or you’re retrofitting an old one with a locker facelift, there are several things you need to do before you choose school lockers for your student body. This guide can help.

Step 1: Identify How Many Total Lockers You Need

Before you can even begin to consider locker design, you need to think about your population and just how many lockers you might need during the course of the year. Carefully consider how many students you have and whether your entire population will need lockers or if you’ll pair some students up with others, thus needing only a single locker for two students. Also, keep in mind that enrollment projections are often low, so you’ll want to go a bit higher than you expect to ensure you have the necessary facilities for all of your students.

Step 2: Consider Size

The next major consideration is the size factor. How much do your students have to store in their lockers? If you don’t have gym locker facilities for your student athletes, they may need more space than the average student. Likewise, if students carry a backpack from class to class, they may also only need a small amount of space. In the event you’re a fully digital school, book space may be unnecessary. Students may simply need a place to store a coat and a backpack for each class. Think carefully about what students store in their lockers, and you’ll better know whether you should move forward with a full size locker or something smaller.

Step 3: Consider Durability

Don’t forget to think about how durable a hall locker is going to be. Students often use them multiple times per day, and that can mean a serious beating. While you can buy a fairly light gauge locker, the chances are good that you’ll be replacing it far sooner than you want.

Step 4: Don’t Forget About Features

School lockers come with a number of different features these days, including shelves, colors, and a variety of other options. A student’s locker is like a home away from home, so don’t hesitate to make some upgrades and make it the best locker your students have ever seen.

To learn more about selecting lockers for your student body, contact us today.

Published: 19 November 2015

Written by Carroll Seating

No comments

Categories: Locker Solutions

Lockers – they’re as much a part of the middle and high school as textbooks and teachers. These days, it seems there are so many different locker choices available that it can be tough to choose the right ones to meet the needs of your school. Many facilities, though, are sticking with the traditional steel school lockers, and for good reason. Take a look at the advantages.

Durability: Few materials choices beat steel when it comes to locker materials. Carefully welded and reinforced, all of your steel lockers are built strong with 16 gauge steel doors designed to ensure they last year after year. Whether you’re installing them in the locker room or throughout the building, they’ll be able to take the tough use students so often dish out.
Color Choice: Fortunately, steel lockers don’t have to be the color of steel. Instead, we create choices made for any color scheme. Whether you want to go with something that matches your school colors or you want various color schemes to meet the needs of given areas of your building, we can help you find the right choice for your facility.
Configuration Options: In some cases, a single tier setting is perfect for your space. In other situations, though, you may need to go with multiple tiers to help meet the space requirements of a given facility. No matter how much space you have (or you don’t have), we can help you find the perfect choice.

As you shop for the ideal school lockers to meet your needs, be sure to contact us. We offer some of the best choices available today, and we’ll help you spot lockers that work well for your student population and your bottom line. Give us a call today to learn more about how we can help.

Published: 10 June 2015

Written by Carroll Seating

1 Comment

Categories: Locker Solutions

Children today have a lot of very valuable possessions that they carry with them. With brand name sneakers costing upwards of $150 per pair, jeans at $65, and jackets even more costly, just the outfit that he or she changes out of it worth a great deal. However, when one also adds in the value of the smartphone, mini tablet, laptop, and other such belongings found in his or her backpack, the price tag on the contents within each full locker skyrockets. The kids want to know that their belongings are safe, and those of lesser morals are obviously tempted.

The trouble is that we don’t want our kids to worry about things like phones and other such belongings when they are changing for physical education or for an athletic practice. We are trying to encourage kids to set aside thoughts of technology, in order to work more physical activity into their day-to-day lives.

Therefore, it is important to provide them a safe place to store their favorite pair of shoes and that very expensive new cell. There are a few things to keep in mind as you design a new locker room.

While security cameras can be good at deterring some thieves, the majority will quickly learn where they are located and how to get what they want without being detected. Furthermore, there is an issue of privacy when it comes to cameras, which discourages their use in areas where students may be changing. That being said, cameras are a good tool, but shouldn’t be relied on as the only wall of defense.
Coded entries are generally considered the best approach to security. Asking students to remember to bring a padlock with them each and every time is a bit much. For this reason, many facilities will choose built-in, coded locks. These lockers are built to automatically lock when closed, which means that no one has to remember to use a padlock.

Carroll Seating can accommodate all of your locker room needs, so you can provide a clean, inviting, and, most importantly, safe place for students to transition into the physically active parts of the day. Give us a call at 847-434-0909 to order your system or visit us online for more information.

Published: 30 September 2014

Written by Carroll Seating

No comments

Categories: Locker Solutions

Smaller budget this year? You’re not alone. Schools across the nation are struggling as the belt just keeps tightening, but with the population of your school on the increase, finding lockers for everyone is a lot harder than it used to be. These tips can help.

Think Small: Sure, you’d love for every single student in your building to have a full locker, but if you have a range of ages, younger students may not need lockers that are quite as large. If you assign older students your full size lockers and give your younger population double or even triple tier lockers, you get the space you need without the added cost of full size lockers for everyone. If you’ve recently moved to fully electronic textbooks, too, you can certainly assign students smaller lockers with ease, as the need to store personal belongings may be the only one they have while they’re on campus.
Think Outside the Box: Lockers aren’t all what they used to be. With new materials choices debuting all of the time, you may find that the traditional metal locker your building is so used to is no longer a necessity. Searching for the best option to meet your needs in terms of durability and cost at the same time may help you decide on a different material choice entirely.
Think Simple: All of those little add-ons can really amp up the price of your lockers. Coat hooks, shelves, even built in locks may mean you’re paying more than you should, so make sure you don’t accessorize (much).

To learn more about how we can help you get the affordable, durable hallway lockers you want for your school, take a moment to contact us today. With lots of options on the table, we’ll help you find a choice that’s as beautiful as it is budget-friendly.

Published: 5 August 2014

Written by Carroll Seating

No comments

Categories: Locker Solutions

New lockers for a school, whether it’s a brand new building or you’re just making some changes to the space, can be exciting. They’re also not the easiest thing in the world to choose. It may seem like a simple task of checking the latest catalog, pointing, and ordering, but there’s quite a bit more to it than that. Before you place an order for metal school lockers for your building, take a quick look down this checklist to be sure you have all of your bases covered:

Are You Choosing The Right Size Lockers? If you’ve never ordered metal school lockers before, you might be a bit surprised to learn just how many potentially different sizes there are, and with good reason. Not every school needs the same kinds of locker systems for their students. Public schools packed with students and still growing need small, efficient systems that are just large enough to give students a home base during the day. Slightly smaller schools with a stable population may be looking to add to atmosphere with larger locker spaces so students can carry less from day to day. In order to establish that perfect locker size, though, you’ll need to take a careful look both at your available space and the size of your student population. You don’t want to overestimate how much space you have available.
Have You Considered Durability? After size, this is easily the single most important concern. Imagine the life of a school locker for just a moment. Bags, books, shoes, sometimes food, are all thrown in the locker, taken out the of the locker, added to the locker, snatched away from the locker, and every time a kid walks away, that door slams as hard as possible. Durability in this situation is an absolute must. When life happens to a school locker, it shouldn’t ding, dent, or even lose a bit of paint. Before you order, make certain you’re getting top of the line choices or you’ll be replacing them in just a few years.
Have You Considered Style? This is probably at the bottom of your list, but it certainly shouldn’t be. Colors and styles can actually do quite a bit to improve the mood of your students. Keep in mind that a locker is essentially your students’ home away from home. The better it looks, the more likely they are to like the space. Sure, you can’t have everything, but a few minor adjustments to colors and styles could give your school the facelift that will have students smiling.

As you work to order the right lockers for your facility, make sure you look at every aspect available. Don’t simply order the first choice you see.

Published: 11 February 2014

Written by Carroll Seating

No comments

Categories: Locker Solutions

There are times when you simply need a locker for storage, then there are times when you need something quite a bit stronger. DeBourgh all-welded steel lockers are designed specifically for when you need something tough enough to stand up to the worst possible conditions. Designed specifically to offer the right storage solution no matter what the budget or circumstances, DeBourgh offers the ideal product for a variety of situations.

School Lockers – In an educational setting the goal is always to make certain students have access to the best possible storage solution. Unfortunately, that also comes with a need for solid durability, as students can be hard on lockers and other equipment. DeBourgh offers all-welded steel construction, so front to back, bottom to top, you get unbeatable strength. They’re available in one, two, and three tiered options, as well as twelve and fifteen inch widths and depths to better meet your existing layouts. Each locker is even pre-equipped with a polished aluminum number plate with etched black numbering to help ensure locker assignments are far easier to make.

Police and Fire Lockers – Good gear storage is a must for first responders like police and fire personnel, and nothing could be better than the line from DeBourgh. With an entire series designed to meet the unique storage needs of these everyday heroes, you’ll find serious security, storage, and durability in one package. From heavy-duty personnel lockers made to be spacious enough for all of your crew to turn out open front lockers that are ideal when speed is of the essence, this line comes with the construction and accessories necessary to make your job that much easier.

When you need real storage solutions, DeBourgh has the right answer. To learn more about how these amazing lockers can meet your facility’s needs, contact Carroll Seating today for a turnkey solution from design to installation and beyond.

Like us on Facebook & follow us on Twitter!

Published: 5 February 2013

Written by Carroll Seating

No comments

Categories: Locker Solutions

So, you know that your company or school will need lockers, but have you considered many seemingly nitpicking variables such as exact locker dimensions, minimum level of locker security required by the surrounding environment, and minimum durability required for your purposes? Luckily, Carroll Seating has specialists waiting to assist you in making the best possible decision for your company in regards to all of these factors and many more!

The Process
First, our professionals will assist you in attaining an idea of exactly what dimensions each locker will have to be. Then, they will assist you in picking out colors that match the aesthetics of the lockers’ potential surroundings. Using casework skills, they will help ensure you get the most spacious and durable lockers for the best price possible, assisting you in keeping within the allotted budget.

Customization
Perhaps one of the most unique features you may take advantage of when purchasing lockers from our company is the large latitude you are given for customization of the lockers for your budget, aesthetics, or both. For example, you will first have the choice of purchasing a group of new lockers, or a group of used lockers (which are still always pre-certified by us before selling).

Once you have made that primary decision, you will be allowed to choose the type and weight of the metal used to initially construct the locker. Additionally, you will have a say in the color, lock type, and general dimensions. These will all be compared with the initial casework done in order to ensure that it will all fit both physically and with the surroundings.

Immense Catalog
While Carroll Seating offers friendly, fast, and accurate services and high quality, premium furnishing, it also offers a much larger catalog of lockers to choose from than most of its competitors. While most competitors only offer very limited sizes, colors, types, lock security, and additional small factors that may play an important role in your environment, Carroll Seating’s mission is to provide you with exactly what you would like to have in your locker arrangement.

Finally, if you need to install lockers, please contact us by phone or email before making any large decisions. The last thing you want to do is rush a decision without knowing many factors and then being disappointed in a mediocre result. With us, you are guaranteed to have each factor done the way you want it done!

Published: 11 December 2012

Written by Carroll Seating

No comments

Categories: Bleacher seating, Locker Solutions

Atmosphere Can Make a Difference
If you have wandered into your school gymnasium lately and looked at your bleachers, it can be a little disheartening to see them looking worn down, broken, faded, or otherwise in poor shape. The same can be said when walking through the halls where lockers are scratched and bent, or simply older than though ought to be. Old installations in your school can make it feel tired and kids may not have the respect or pride they should for their place of learning.

However, a change in pace can really boost your school in all sorts of ways. People will feel proud to walk in and see the bleachers in excellent shape. Kids will be excited to have a brand new bright locker to store their books and belongings in.

New Life for Your School
That’s where Carroll Seating Company comes in. We’ve worked with hundreds of schools since the 1950s, providing them with everything they need. This includes strong lockers and sturdy bleachers. The possibilities don’t just stop at student lockers or indoor bleachers. We can also provide you with metal storage lockers for teacher break rooms and outside stadium seating for all of the school’s sports games.

Customization is the best part! We can provide lockers, bleachers, and more, and make sure that they fit within the proper architectural design, are the right color, or in the case of bleachers, showcase your school’s mascot or initials! Bleachers can also be retractable so you save space when necessary.

Supplies for All Your Needs
We also make sure to keep all the parts on hand if you ever face a problem. This way it will be solved quickly and efficiently. We provide you with service every step of the way. If you aren’t sure how to go about making a purchase for your school simply contact us and we can walk you through the process to make it smooth and simple. You will get quotes that you can take to your administration or other body in charge, and we also offer financing plans to help you get your projects on track.

Once the project is finished, don’t forget to take some time to look at the student’s faces when they walk into the updated areas for the first time. Their faces will light up at how cool their school looks and they’ll be proud to open their new locker or cheer on their teams on the new bleachers.