Laminate Flooring in Brighton

Laminate belongs in the dry rooms of a Brighton conversion, the bedrooms and the living room of a flat in Seven Dials or Hanover, where the AC-rated boards click together over an underlay that also carries the lease’s acoustic duty, with a gap at every wall. For a landlord in the flat-heavy rental market it is the board that survives a tenancy of furniture and is replaced cheaply when it does not.

The seafront ends of BN1 and BN2 bring damp air indoors, and the laminate’s abrasion standard is written for dry rooms, so the hall, the kitchen and any basement room go to the BML rigid vinyl. Over pre-war suspended timber the base is levelled first, or the click joints ride the joists; over the heated screed at Brickfields the boards go on a moisture-barrier underlay and are listed as compatible with the heating.

Flats are 50% of the homes in Brighton and Hove, and laminate in a flat is a question of sound before anything else: a hard click floor over a bare slab carries footfall into the flat below. Approved Document E sets the impact-sound limits and the lease usually adds a clause, and the answer is the underlay, chosen on a tested impact-sound figure under EN 16354 rather than a claim on the pack. Check the lease first.

Private renting is 33% of households in Brighton and Hove, and laminate is the landlord's floor in Brighton for the plain reason that it is the quickest to replace between tenancies and the least costly to replace. An AC4 rating carries domestic wear; the rooms that suffer are the ones with water, and there the rigid-vinyl range takes over.