LVT Vinyl Flooring in Brighton

Two thirds of Brighton’s private lets are flats, and a landlord specifying a floor for one is buying durability per pound rather than the deepest wear layer; the BML rigid vinyl plank is that purchase. What a seafront let throws at a floor, grit from the beach, damp air, a change of tenant most summers, stays on the surface of this one: the plank itself is listed as waterproof, a mop deals with the grit, and when a tenant leaves the one scuffed board is clicked out and another clicked in.

In a converted Regency flat the plank spends little of the depth the lease allows, because the underlay is bonded to it, and the acoustic layer goes beneath over levelled boards. In a basement flat in Brunswick Town or Kemptown it is the floor that ignores the damp a below-ground room keeps, provided the base has been sealed. At Moulsecoomb the screed is heated and the plank is listed as compatible with it.

Flats are 50% of the homes in the Brighton and Hove district, and a rigid-vinyl floor in a flat goes over the slab on an acoustic underlay: it is thin enough to stay under the door thresholds and quiet enough, with the right underlay, to meet the impact-sound clause a lease carries. The kitchen and the bathroom of a flat are its two natural rooms.

Private renting is 33% of households in Brighton and Hove, and the rigid-vinyl range is the rental floor for the wet rooms in Brighton: listed as waterproof, clicked and floated, wiped clean, and with a 0.55 mm wear layer rated by the manufacturer as commercial grade. It is the floor a landlord puts into a kitchen once and does not think about between tenancies.