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Commercial sheet vinyl flooring is the sheet vinyl flooring using for commercial applications, such as school, hospital, factory, shopping mall, office, airport, station, library, exhibition centre, gym, etc.
It is mainly homogeneous vinyl sheet flooring and heterogeneous vinyl sheet flooring.
Nowadays, more and more people are using sheet vinyl flooring for commercial applications.
Today we will list 11 advantages for commercial sheet vinyl flooring.
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Actually durability is the most important factor for commercial grade sheet vinyl flooring. When it comes to commercial, it is easy to understand that there will be a lot of traffic on the flooring, much more than the residential flooring at home. So we will need to make sure the life expectancy of this commercial sheet vinyl will be longer enough. This is not only about the commercial flooring quality, but it is also the whole building construction quality.
Both homogeneous flooring and heterogeneous flooring are performing very well in flooring durability. As a matter of fact, we are calling commercial vinyl sheet flooring as heavy duty vinyl sheet flooring. With proper cleaning and maintenance, the commercial sheet vinyl flooring can last 15 to 30 years.
Yes we all know the commercial grade vinyl sheet flooring is very durable under proper daily usage. But since it is facing more complicated environment in commercial applications, and there are more traffics than residential usage. Scratch on the flooring is unavoidable. So it is also very important for the commercial sheet vinyl flooring to be scratch resistant.
So the daily scratch on the flooring will not break it. And this will also help to protect the vinyl flooring sheets from damage.
Fire resistant is important for all building materials.
But not all the building materials are fire resistant; actually less than half of the flooring is fire resistant. So it is easy to tell that fire resistant is a very big advantage for commercial vinyl flooring rolls. Flooring is major part of the building material that it connects all the areas together. If the flooring is easy on fire, then the fire can be easily transferred from one room to another room, and this is dangerous for all the building.
Fire resistant function is seldom use for a building, but it will definitely save lives when there is fire for commercial buildings. Especially for big buildings with lots of people inside.
Carpet is not fire resistant, and this is the biggest problem for carpet as commercial flooring applications.
Slip resistant function is important for below:
Maybe it is not essential for all the floorings to be anti-slip, but it is better to non slip. At least it is safer for slip resistant sheet vinyl flooring.
Non slip vinyl sheets are so important for hospital, healthcare center, and school. When people in these places are easy to fall down, then the resistant sheet vinyl will definitely protect people.
Waterproof vinyl sheets are good for below:
Waterproof sheet vinyl flooring is perfect for hospital flooring.
For those places with high traffic, it is always an advantage if the floor is resilient and comfortable to walk.
Ceramic and porcelain tiles are good for many places, but it is so hard that people will not fill comfortable to walk on these tiles, especially where a lot of walks needed.
Heavy duty commercial grade sheet vinyl flooring normally will have 2mm thickness, and this will enable the vinyl sheet flooring resilient, and it is very comfortable to walk on the vinyl floor sheets.
PVC flooring in roll is much easier to install than PVC flooring tile if it is for large area installation. Vinyl sheet flooring installation is faster, cause you don’t need to install tile by tile.
It is even possible for some people if they want to DIY themselves.
Normally 48 hours are enough for most of the vinyl flooring sheets installation.
And you can start to use 24 hours after installation.
Normally there will be a big area for commercial flooring. There will be a cleaning and maintenance team for the building. So it is also important if the rolled vinyl flooring is easy to clean and maintain.
What you need is just simply sweep or mop the vinyl floor, nothing special needed. And this is quick; especially the vinyl sheeting is waterproof.
Antibacterial and fungicidal functions are so important for hospital, healthcare center, and testing lab. No doubt this is essential for hygienic facility, ceramic tile is used to be the choice for hospital operation room , but this is far from enough, weaponry against bacteria, mold spores that can lead to infection in surgery, this is very important. So homogeneous vinyl flooring is the best choice for hospital grade flooring)
Vinyl sheet flooring can with very good colors and stylish patterns.
Actually for heterogeneous sheet vinyl flooring, you can print on the vinyl flooring rolls. You can even custom print it and make it as luxury vinyl flooring. You can print wood look, stone look, or solid colors such blue, while, black, pink; or custom print any of the designed patterned you need.
The printing quality is good that it will look real.
When comparing with carpet, hardwood, laminate wood, ceramic tile, porcelain tile and bamboo flooring, vinyl flooring sheet is with the lowest cost. While it is the most suitable commercial flooring.
For operation room, testing lab, telecom facility, data center, etc, these places will need ESD function. In this case ESD vinyl flooring sheet is the best choice of anti static sheet selection.
This article is written by Longda Flooring (www.longdaflooring.com), the largest vinyl sheet flooring manufacturer from China.
Please contact Longda flooring for a free quote on your vinyl flooring needs. We have quick response, efficient communication, quality products, on time delivery, and competitive price.
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