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Luxury Vinyl Flooring is the vinyl flooring with incredible luxury looks, such as: hardwood floor looks, natural stone floor looks, ceramic tile looks, custom printed looks. The printing quality is so good that it looks like real.
For the luxury vinyl floor quality itself, normally it is not with low end product, but with thicker material which not only makes the luxury vinyl flooring looks beautiful, but also durable in daily using.
Today luxury vinyl floors are becoming more and more popular in the market. This vinyl floor is made of PVC resin material. It has different advantages and characteristics, which is better than traditional floors.
For example, wooden floors are the most common, but wooden floors will have common shortcomings, such as fear of fire, fear of water and easy cracking.
In home decoration, wooden composite floors are mostly used, but in large shopping malls and indoor places with large flow of people, it is not suitable to use traditional floor materials.
PVC flooring combines all the advantages of traditional flooring and overcomes the disadvantages of traditional flooring at the same time. It is very durable, wear-resistant, but very thin and light. It has very good anti-skid performance and resilience. The lines of a variety of creative series, wood grain, marble grain, carpet grain, etc., have very good decorative effect, as well as fire and flame retardant performance.
Today we will give you ultimate guide on how to buy luxury vinyl flooring.
It’s an in-depth article that takes 30 minutes to read.
Normally luxury vinyl flooring can be divided into below:
This means the luxury vinyl floors in tile, below are the most common sizes:
12″ x 12″(304.8mm x 304.8mm)
18″ x 18″ (457.2mm x 457.2mm)
24″ x 24″ (609.6mm x 609.6mm)
This means the luxury vinyl floors in plank, below are the most common sizes:
4″ x 36″ (101.6mm x 914.4mm)
6″ x 36″ (152.4mm x 914.4mm)
8″ x 36″ (203.2mm × 914.4mm),
Note: Actually SPC, WPC can also be called LVP, cause SPC and WPC normally comes in plank.
This means the luxury vinyl floors in rolls. Below are the common sizes:
2 x 20 meters
4 x 20 meters
6 FT x 20 meters (call it 6 ft wide vinyl sheet flooring)
15 FT x 20 meters ( call it 15 ft vinyl sheet flooring)
It is so important that you need will need to buy luxury vinyl tile, luxury vinyl plank or luxury vinyl sheet, this will narrow down your choice a lot.
Normally if it is for residential or small places, you can choose luxury vinyl tile or luxury vinyl plank. These vinyl floors are beautiful, easy to install, and mostly very easy to DIY.
If it is for commercial applications or bigger areas, you will choose luxury vinyl sheet flooring. It will take less time to install it, and the final installed quality is good. 10 to 30 years life expectancy is not a problem.
Normally there are 4 types of flooring installation
Loose lay vinyl floor means the floor doesn’t rely on any fasteners, adhesive or even tongue and groove mechanisms to hold themselves in place. These vinyl floors simply lay in position on a floor, and remain there once installed.
Click lock flooring with a straightforward locking mechanism. Each plank or tile has a ridge along the side that fits into the piece next to it to hold it firmly in place, so to install it, you just line up each piece with the one next to it and click it into place. In this case the floors can be locked together easily and firmly. This will make the installation super easy and DIY friendly.
This is very simple, simple peel off the cover film, and then stick the flooring on the subfloor. Normally this is for easy and quick installation, while doesn’t require the flooring last for many years.
For glue down flooring, you will need to glue the PVC floor on the subfloor. This will make the flooring installation a little bit more work than loose lay and click lock, but the final installed flooring quality is much better and last longer. Glue down flooring is the only seamless vinyl flooring.
There are dry back for LVT & LVP, and there are loose lay for luxury sheet vinyl. But frankly speaking the better choice is below:
Please choose loose lay, peel & stick, glue down for LVT
Please choose loose lay, peel & stick, click lock for LVP
Please choose glue down for luxury vinyl sheet.
So if you need flooring in small places, and you want easy installation or better DIY, we will suggest you can choose loose lay or click lock LVT and LVP.
If you need seamless vinyl flooring, such as high requirement waterproof vinyl flooring, bathroom vinyl flooring, vinyl kitchen flooring; your best choice should be glue down luxury sheet flooring with hot welding joints.
If you need very durable flooring that can last long, such as heavy duty vinyl flooring, or commercial flooring, your best choice should be glue down luxury rolled vinyl flooring with hot welding in joints.
If you need antibacterial and fungicidal function on the vinyl floor, such as hospital grade vinyl flooring, food production grade PVC flooring, then your best choice should be glue down luxury vinyl flooring rolls with welding joints.
Normally there are 3 types of different colors
Hardwood look
The luxury vinyl flooring with the surface looks like wood, the printing technology on the vinyl flooring is so good that it looks real. So the wood look vinyl flooring sometimes can be mistake it as real wood flooring.
Stone look
Stone look vinyl flooring will be about the same thing as wood look flooring, but the printing is like stone. The stone look vinyl flooring looks like real stone flooring; it can also be concrete look
Custom print
Actually wood look vinyl flooring and stone look vinyl flooring are also custom printed vinyl flooring. But since wood look and stone look are so popular so we take them out. Any other colors printed on luxury vinyl flooring is call custom printed luxury vinyl flooring. It can be any of the colors, such as solid color of black, white, blue, etc; and beautiful pictures for kindergarten. For vinyl flooring, the printing is directly on the printing plate by rotogravure printing and then laminated to other layers, basically it can be any colors you like.
Basically not too much suggestion on color selection. You can just choose the best colors you like if it is residential flooring. And the most suitable color for commercial flooring.
The popular choice is wood look and stone look for residential application, and custom printing for commercial flooring.
Residential flooring
Normally you can choose wood look and stone look for LVT & LVP of residential flooring. That’s the most popular way. The colors are good, the installation is easier, while residential flooring requires less in seamless.
Commercial flooring
We can see commercial flooring with all kinds of colors: wood look, stone look, custom printing. Just choose the colors you suitable for it.
But it will be much better if we choose luxury vinyl sheet for commercial flooring cause below functions:
Seamless: it will perform better in waterproof, antibacterial and fungicidal. This is much better choice for the places with water, such as kitchen, bathroom, indoor swimming pool building, indoor games with water. And hospital, drug factory, food factory, etc.
Glue down: The installation will guarantee good quality, it will last longer. And this is perfect for commercial flooring which need longer life.
Flooring rolls: For big commercial areas, it will need very long time if you choose vinyl plank. So vinyl flooring in rolls will be the best and quick option.
For small flooring quantity at home, you can go to stores such as homedepot, or on line Amazon, there are lots of choices for you.
For bigger flooring quantity, such as commercial applications (air port, station, mall, factory, hospital, school, lab, gym), you can buy it from local distributor or wholesaler. Or if you can wait, you can buy it from Chinese factories. The quality is good while with much lower prices. Actually most of the named brands are OEM their luxury vinyl floorings from China.
Longda Flooring is the largest luxury sheet flooring factory from China, the company got 300+ colors, leading the product trend in designs and patterns. The PVC flooring roll is not only beautiful, but also with good quality for both residential flooring and commercial grade vinyl flooring.
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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