Buyers Guide to Vinyl Flooring

Vinyl flooring has evolved extensively over the years. Modern vinyl flooring will often replicate authentic designs from wood flooring, ceramic tiles, natural stones and slate, even linoleum.

Vinyl flooring also replicates natural products, including a large selection of timber look floors. These are installed as individual planks and look even more authentic than sheet vinyls. With “Luxury Vinyl Tiles” we can create a floor with a design as individual as your home or business. Many installations have custom borders and inserts. Even company branding or logos can be inserted to really individualise your flooring selection. Generally when installing this type of flooring there is very little waste which means it can be an economical, cost effective choice.

Vinyl flooringis one of the hottest flooring options on the market. Often compared to laminate flooring, vinyl is made from man-made materials to resemble natural sources like wood and stone.

Unlike laminate, vinyl flooring is a huge category with a plethora of different types, installations, constructions and, well, levels of awesome.

Types of Vinyl Floors

Vinyl flooring is available in planks and sheets/rolls. Each type has its own unique look and installation properties.

Vinyl Plank Flooring

The most popular vinyl flooring option is vinyl plank flooring. These planks typically mimic the look of solid hardwood, offering a warm, inviting and expensive feel to your home.

Today’s luxury vinyl planks even offer the texture and character of trending hardwood options, including handscraped and wirebrushed looks.

One of the major benefits to choosing vinyl plank flooring is the easy, approachable, DIY installation. Most vinyl plank options come as interlocking or “floating” floors and simply click together, similar to laminate. Other DIY options include loose lay (the easiest – just lay your floor down and you’re done!) and peel and stick.

For high-traffic and commercial installation, you can always glue down your vinyl planks for a permanent solution.

Vinyl plank flooring is super easy to take care of. Most options are water-resistant and many are fully waterproof. Just make sure you choose a thick wear layer to prevent scrapes and scratches.

Sheet Vinyl flooring

Sheet Vinyl flooring is commonly referred to as a vinyl roll, because…that’s exactly what it is! A big roll of vinyl flooring that you lay over your subfloor.

Although it comes in a variety of looks, including wood and stone, this flooring is not quite as convincing as planks or tiles because it is in sheet form. However, vinyl sheet flooring is typically super affordable, which makes it a popular choice for commercial spaces.

Unfortunately, vinyl sheet flooring usually requires a professional installation using specific techniques that are not super approachable for the DIY homeowner.

SPC flooring

SPC flooring, also known as rigid core luxury vinyl flooring, is exactly what you’d expect: waterproof vinyl flooring with a tough, sturdy, rigid core. The rigid core allows you to install your vinyl floor in areas you wouldn’t normally be able to.

You see, most subfloors are inherently uneven. It’s just not common to have a perfectly smooth subfloor hanging out waiting for you to come put your dream floor on top of it.

Most of the time you have existing flooring. Or uneven concrete. Or a number of other bumps and hiccups causing your subfloor to be something other than the desired pancake-flat surface most installation instructions call for.

This new rigid plank technology helps to eliminate ripples and waves that are often caused by uneven subfloors.

Like WPC, rigid core vinyl flooring has the highest quality imagery and the most durable wear layers. It also includes many DIY installation options, as well as permanent glue-down solutions.

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