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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
Vinyl sheet flooring is the vinyl flooring in sheet or roll.
Underlayment is basically a thin layer of material sandwiched between other materials. The flooring underlayment is a thin layer of material, such as fiber, felt, rubber, self leveling cement or foam. It helps to cushion, absorb sound, insulate heat, reduce the wear of the floor and strongly improve the installation quality.
Do I need underlayment for vinyl sheet flooring? This is the question we often hear people ask. There are many articles to explain whether you need underlayment for vinyl flooring (mainly vinyl tile, vinyl plan, WPC and SPC), but you won’t find any article of underlayment for vinyl sheet flooring.
In this article, we will give you ultimate guide why you need underlayment.
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Unlike other vinyl floorings, you can use fiber, cork, felt, rubber and foam for underlayment. Normally self leveling will be the only underlayment we are talking about for vinyl sheet flooring.
Self leveling is a ground construction technology. It is a liquid substance mixed with a variety of materials and water. After pouring into the ground, this substance can flow according to the uneven situation of the ground and level the ground automatically
Vinyl sheet flooring is a kind of soft floor material with a thickness of 2mm to 5mm, which has high requirements for the ground. Therefore, if Vinyl sheet flooring is laid on the ground that is not flat or fails to meet the requirements, it will cause hollowing and bubbling of the floor, ups and downs of the ground, directly affect the pavement quality and appearance, and completely fail to play the unique decorative effect of sheet vinyl flooring. After the self leveling is poured into the ground, the strength and smoothness of the ground can be increased, so that the ground can be adhered to the sheet vinyl flooring to the greatest extent and compactly after brushing glue. In this way, the final Vinyl sheet flooring installation effect will be very good, and it can even be used for more than 30 years without installation quality problems.
Of course, some people feel that their floor is very flat, so they don’t need to do self leveling, which can reduce one process. Of course, this statement is correct, so we just said at the beginning that if you install the Vinyl sheet on the self leveling or self leveling epoxy flooring with very good quality, this can be installed directly. Because the underlay of sheet vinyl itself is self leveling, it is no longer necessary to add an additional underlay after having a high-quality and qualified underlay.
However, if the existing self leveling and epoxy flooding are damaged, for example, they are not particularly flat, or there are cracks in some places, we need to repair them at this time. For example, repair the cracks and level the uneven places with self leveling. What’s more, if the damage of self leveling and epoxy flooding is so serious that it can’t be repaired, we need to make a self leveling again. This will solve the problem well.
In addition, for wood flooring, cork flooring, vinyl flooring, rubber flooring, plastic flooring, bamboo flooring and carpet, we suggest that all these places be removed, cleaned, self leveled, and then paved with Vinyl sheet flooring. Because if these floors have a function of underlaying in the middle seat, it may affect the installation quality of the final installation, shorten the service life of the Vinyl sheet flooring, and may be uneven in a relatively short time.
For those floor tiles or vitrified tiles that look very flat, we still need to do self leveling. First, we often look very flat, but in fact, their flatness cannot reach the level of self leveling. Second, there are gaps between the floors, which will undoubtedly affect the installation quality of the final installation. Make the service life of PVC flooring shorter and will become very unsightly. After self leveling is done on these floor tiles, the quality of sheet vinyl installation will be guaranteed.
As you may know, normally vinyl sheet flooring is install for commercial applications, and these places are need very long life circle such as 10-30 years. So we will not only need to use the best vinyl sheet flooring, but we will need to guarantee that the installation quality is good. We can only have a very good quality vinyl sheet flooring after we get above both well done.
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This article is written by Longda Flooring (www.longdaflooring.com), a leading vinyl sheet flooring manufacturer from China.
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