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Vinyl Flooring is becoming more and more popular cause it is affordable, durable, stylish colors & patterns, fire resistant, waterproof and easy installation.
But many people still facing the question: how much vinyl flooring should I buy?
They don’t know how to measure the flooring area, and they don’t know how much flooring should they buy to fit all the area without waste.
Today we will give you ultimate guide on how much vinyl flooring should you buy.
It’s an in-depth article that takes 15 minutes to read.
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Vinyl flooring refers to the flooring produced with PVC materials. Specifically, it is produced by taking polyvinyl chloride and its copolymer resin as the main raw material, adding fillers, plasticizers, stabilizers, colorants and other auxiliary materials on sheet continuous substrate through coating process or calendering, extrusion or extrusion process
Also known as “light floor material”, it is a very popular new type of light floor decoration material in the world and widely used, such as houses, hospitals, schools, office buildings, factories, public places, supermarkets, businesses, etc.
Other name: PVC flooring, homogeneous & heterogeneous vinyl flooring.
Normally there are 4 kinds of flooring base on installation method
Loose lay: Simply lay the vinyl floor on the subfloor, and this is all good.
Click lock: there is click lock on each piece of vinyl floor, you just lay the floor on the subfloor, and then click lock each plank.
Peel and stick: peel off and tape and then stick the flooring on the subfloor
Glue down/dry back: You will need to first clean the subfloor, glue the subfloor, and then lay the vinyl flooring on the glue.
Vinyl flooring installation is easy, most of the people can be DIY.
Measure flooring is easy, you just need a tape and measure the total flooring area by square meters. If there are many rooms, or not open area.
This is the mistake many people will make if they only buy the vinyl flooring with the total area they measure. But this is not enough for below reasons:
So normally we will need to add 10% extra on the total area.
Example:
Total area of the flooring: 100 Square meter
Total vinyl flooring you should buy: 110 square meter (with 10% extra)
So when we try to figure out how much vinyl flooring to buy, one import rule is: it is always better more than not enough. So please follow below:
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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