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Vinyl flooring is the most popular flooring right now. It is super durable, fireproof, waterproof, slip resistant, resilient, beautiful and affordable.
Vinyl flooring is a good choice both for residential application and commercial application. Actually with the rapid development of construction, the demand for vinyl flooring is increasing rapidly.
We know there are many advantages of vinyl flooring, but still there are some disadvantages.
In this article, we will talk about what quality problems are likely to occur with vinyl flooring. Hope people will better understand vinyl flooring in daily using.
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It is easy to remove for loose lay vinyl flooring. But it is difficult to remove when it is glue down.
Actually we are always asking for good quality installation in gluing down. So the vinyl floor will be installed on the subfloor tightly.
The problem is for good quality installation, the removing will be super difficult. The glue is not easy to tear off, and we will need to clean all the glue which is more difficult. You will also need to use heat gun if necessary.
Of course vinyl flooring is durable, so normally you don’t need to remove it once installed. But in case you will need to remove it or re-design the flooring, then removing is the problem.
The vinyl flooring is with good quality. Normally it will last for 10 to 30 years. So we will need to make our plan well, and make sure we don’t change the design often.
Vinyl flooring is made from PVC resin. It is plastic flooring after all. So it will not be the strong resistant to sharp objects as ceramic tile, porcelain tile or stone flooring.
When knife or scissors drop to the floor, it might scratch or break the vinyl flooring a little bit. It is the same problem as rubber flooring, wooden flooring, linoleum flooring and cork flooring.
Or when you remove the objects on the floor, and it is by happen that the object with sharp legs.
We will need to take good care ourselves. When the sharp objects drop on the floor, it might also drop on our feet. So this is very dangerous. We will need to make sure we take care of all sharp objects, and will not drop.
When we remove some objects on the vinyl flooring, such as sofa. We can attached a pad on the leg just in case it might cause damage.
Actually all the floorings are difficult to repair. Included hardwood flooring, laminate flooring, ceramic tile, porcelain tile, and stone flooring.
Normally for luxury vinyl tile and luxury vinyl plank, we will suggest replacement.
Loose lay and click lock vinyl floorings are easier to replace. For the glue down LVT and LVP, we will first remove the flooring, and then replace with new flooring. Of course we will need to glue down and make it good.
For vinyl flooring repairing, we can firstly cut the broken piece off. And replace it with another same size flooring. It is very important that we will cut the flooring off with enough size. And it is also very important that we will hot weld it if necessary. Of course it will be perfect if you can find the same color.
Basically the vinyl flooring is super durable under daily usage. So we will need to make sure no sharp objects, no severe damages on the flooring. And we will need to clean and maintain the vinyl flooring regularly.
Of course when you buy the vinyl flooring, please make sure you understand what you need exactly. If it is heavy traffic, you will need to make sure you are buying heavy duty vinyl flooring. If it is hospital, you will need to buy hospital grade vinyl flooring.
Vinyl flooring will deformable under heavy pressure. We have to say it is no problem under daily usage. But for industrial application with very heavy machines, we will not suggest you are vinyl flooring.
It is ok for all residential applications. But do not use it for industrial applications with super heavy machines.
For different kinds of floorings, there are always advantages and disadvantages.
But vinyl flooring is the best choice normally for many of the applications. What we need is to select the most suitable vinyl flooring for our jobs, and make sure we clean the maintain our flooring well. In this case we can rest assure that we will have a wonderful experience on our vinyl flooring.
This article is written by Longda Flooring (www.longdaflooring.com), the largest vinyl sheet flooring manufacturer from China.
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