We used name brand self stick tiles from Home Depot years ago at Village Medical and for the most part they held up really well. Scuff resistant and made clean up pretty easy for the most part although greasy foot prints from Mechanics or stepping in crud in the parking lot from older cars leaking badly sometimes were difficult to get clean in their sculpted design, ala slate like. But that made them more slip resistant for those same wet snowy melt issues you discussed here. We kept a small mop near by in a non pt space to mop up really bad spots so LOL (Little Old Ladies) didn't take a header or face plant...
But it was cheap and easy and they were still in good shape 10 years later. We had landlord installed no nap commercial carpet in the hallways and waiting rooms which helped to capture a decent amount of wet stuff before it make it to the hard flooring. They even held up well to sliding the Ritter 104 tables back and forth once in awhile when it struck my Ex to try and new arraignment in her Exam, working space. And she wore heels sometimes and it held up pretty well to CHITT Kicker Boots and lady's heels and such too. Just the Paving Crew Guys with pretty nasty fresh tar on their boots made for some cleaning problems. But I'd bet that would happen with any floor regardless of type and such....
Lastly, I got us a capture like sculpted entrance rug for snow and small pebbles and the like that sat in our small vestibule where folks had no choice but to step on it to scrape off at least some of the worst of it and in the winter I added a second more absorbent one in the second doorway off that vestibule to capture more water and crude. In this way at least most of the worst of the crud was half gone before they walked down the hallway to the Exam Room... It was imperfect but there is No Perfect Solution to Lake Effect Snow, Cow Crud and Pavers' Tar boots
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