Five reasons to love luxury vinyl flooring
Luxury vinyl flooring (LVF) truly checks all the boxes, offering you everything you could want in flooring material. The style is so high-end we see it in every room in the house, some of the places where once only genuine materials would be considered. However, the 100% waterproof capability makes it ideal for kitchens, baths, and other wet spaces.
Style inspired by nature
LVF offers remarkably realistic wood, stone, or tile simulations, available in an almost unlimited number of colors and patterns. Photographs are taken with digital photography with plenty of clarity and vibrancy, including knots, swirls, grains, and veining variations. The colors and patterns are brilliant.
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Depth and dimension
The floor has micro beveling and embossing to give it depth, dimension, and textured appearances. LVF can be cut into long planks to mimic hardwood boards, vinyl plank flooring, or squares to echo stone and tile, LVT flooring. Many feel the extra seams add even more to the realism, and some take the squares even further by using grout.
Modern trends
Luxury vinyl follows all industry trends so that you can get anything from gray wood look floors for another trend: the farmhouse-style kitchen. You can also get popular species, including domestic and exotic species like oak, maple, walnut, ash, cherry, teak, tigerwood, etc. Stone looks include marble, terrazzo, slate, limestone, granite, and travertine; tiles include colorful geometrics, chevrons, and more.
High durability
While all vinyl is durable, true LVF is thicker, measuring at least 8-mm. This multi-layered product has a top, transparent, melamine wear coating that protects the floor from scratches, scuffs and even keeps spills from absorbing; they sit at the top waiting to be wiped off. Wear layers come in different measurements, but for busy rooms, you may want to go as high as 20-mils.
Low maintenance
This is low-maintenance floorcovering, only requiring daily sweeping and periodic mopping with a manufacturer-approved cleaner. Avoid wax, shine-promoting substances as they can damage the urethane finish and dull the floor. Installation can also be simple with a fast and uncomplicated floating floor; pieces click together, mat, then hover over the subfloor with no
nails or glue.