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The advantages of luxury vinyl/PVC flooring

“Design floor­ing” made of vinyl or PVC was already pop­u­lar in the 1970s. What made the floor­ing so attract­ive was its hard-wear­ing and easy-to-clean sur­face. In the mean­time, lux­ury vinyl tiles (LVTs) have become a real eye-catch­er and are avail­able in many styl­ish designs. Thanks to a large choice of col­ors and sur­face struc­tures, they offer a wide range of design options. The advant­ages speak for them­selves.

Tip 1: One material – many different styles

Walk­ing over nat­ur­al stone or tiles and still feel the com­fort of a soft floor under­foot? This is now pos­sible with lux­ury vinyl floor­ing: it faith­fully repro­duces the look of stone, tiles or real wood. The res­ult is decept­ively real imit­a­tions that are often almost indis­tin­guish­able from the ori­gin­al. Due to the favor­able prop­er­ties of vinyl and PVC, the floor­ing is easy to clean and at the same time extremely hard-wear­ing thanks to low wear and tear.

Tip 2: Easy-care surface – high walk-on comfort

“Design floor­ing” made of vinyl or PVC is insens­it­ive to mois­ture and can there­fore be wet-wiped without any prob­lems. Moreover, it offers pleas­ant warmth under­foot even if no under­floor heat­ing was installed. The floor­ing is resi­li­ent and there­fore gentle on the joints. And if it is bon­ded over the entire sur­face area, it provides more impact sound insu­la­tion than hard floor­ing. Since vinyl floor­ing is avail­able as tiles, planks or sheets, dif­fer­ent pat­terns can be cre­ated accord­ing to your wishes.

Tip 3: Healthy living thanks to low-emission products

To pro­tect the health of the res­id­ents, low-emis­­sion adhes­ives should be used for bond­ing PVC or vinyl floor­ing. The EMICODE® seal on the pack­aging provides use­ful guid­ance. The renowned seal is only awar­ded to install­a­tion products that have been tested and cer­ti­fied to be very low in emis­sions. In addi­tion, EMICODE®-labelled products are reg­u­larly spot-checked by inde­pend­ent insti­tutes to veri­fy their com­pli­ance with the lim­it val­ues. This ensures the highest pos­sible pro­tec­tion against indoor air pol­lu­tion as well as a high level of envir­on­ment­al com­pat­ib­il­ity.

The advantages of luxury vinyl/PVC flooring

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7 May 2019