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How To Install The Best Vinyl Floors at Home and Office

by Rahul V. Digital Marketing Company

While making the floors of the rooms at home or in your office, you are often faced with the dilemma as to what medium should be chosen to make the floor. You have the choice between hard wood and vinyl coated floor. While hard wood may look amazingly beautiful, yet its disadvantages are so many that they weigh against the use of wood in flooring. If you want durability and long lasting floors in your kitchen, bathrooms and your bed rooms, then no other option is better than vinyl flooring.

In vinyl floors you get the widest range of colours, designs, patterns and price tags to select from. It is mainly used for making the floors large projects like shopping malls, as well as for large areas like office space, and then as small an area as a kitchen or balcony.

Everything to Know About Vinyl Flooring

  • Vinyl is a building material that is made of polyvinyl chloride, commonly called PVC. It is basically engineered from chemicals and is essentially a man - made substance.
  • Vinyl is much lesser costly, much more durable and much easier to maintain. The best thing about it is its resistance to moisture, and that is what makes it the most suitable for making the floors of the bathrooms and kitchen.
  • Vinyl floors are the best possible options in such spaces which are very much walked on, like offices, schools and shopping malls. The floors give insulation and the surface is very comfortable to walk on.
  • However, you cannot repaint or refinish the vinyl floors. They are available off – the – shelf and you cannot have then re-made in any way.
  • When the floor looks dull over the years, you have no other option but to go for replacement.
  • You must take care not to expose the laminated flooring Cape Town to too much of sunlight or to extreme cold, as the vinyl may get cracked, or its brightness may disappear.

Types of Vinyl Flooring

There are mainly two types of vinyl flooring options:

  • Inlaid vinyl
  • Printed vinyl

Inlaid vinyl is the stronger one, with much thicker vinyl coating. This is the best choice for floors in the busy areas.

Printed vinyl has a sheet of printed paper underneath a thin sheet of vinyl. This is the cheapest quality, and is used mainly in places where not much walking is done.

You can have both the varieties in the form of sheets and tiles in any leading hardware store near you. 


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