LVT and SPC Flooring Cost

Wear layer thickness — the clear film on top — drives both price and lifespan. The same design is often sold in two or three wear layers at quite different prices. A domestic bedroom and a shop entrance are not the same job.

Buying a commercial wear layer for a spare bedroom is money spent on nothing. Buying a domestic one for a hallway with a dog is money saved once and spent again in three years.

No underlay in many click systems — some have it attached. Thin build-up, so doors often do not need trimming. Waterproof, so a leak is an inconvenience rather than a replacement. Over ten years in a kitchen, that last point can be the whole argument.

The same design can be bought in a click format and a glue-down format, and the two produce quite different quotes for the same room.

Click floats over an underlay, often one already attached to the board. It is quick, it is the cheaper fit, and it can be lifted again. It is also the format that tolerates a slightly imperfect subfloor better, because it is not bonded to it.

Glue-down is bonded to the subfloor, so it is quieter and firmer underfoot and does not move at the perimeter. It is the specification for a large open area or a commercial floor. It also needs a genuinely flat subfloor, because a glued floor telegraphs everything beneath it, and that preparation is the line that carries the extra cost rather than the adhesive.

The wear layer is the clear film over the printed design. It does not change how the floor looks on the day it goes down and it decides how long it goes on looking that way. Ranges are commonly offered in more than one wear layer, and the cheapest of them is the right choice for a spare bedroom and the wrong one for a hallway with a dog. Neither is a better product; they are different specifications for different jobs, and the mistake costs money in both directions.

Three lines that other floors carry. Underlay, where the click system has it attached. Door trimming, because the build-up is thin enough that doors often clear it. And, over the life of the floor, replacement after a leak: the board takes on no water, so an appliance failure in a kitchen is a drying job rather than a new floor.

Subfloor preparation, and more of it than a click laminate needs if the format is glue-down. It is worth asking for the levelling to be quoted separately rather than folded into a rate, because it is the line that differs most between two fitters looking at the same room.

Over ten years in a kitchen, the wear layer is the line that decides whether the floor was cheap or only looked it, so read it against current LVT and SPC prices before ordering. Two comparisons follow from that: what laminate costs to buy and to lay, and what makes up the price of a floor once fitting and preparation are added.

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