LVT Vinyl Flooring in Cardiff

The front door of a Cardiff terrace opens straight onto the weather, and the hall floor takes it all winter. The BML rigid vinyl plank is chosen for that hall because the plank itself is listed as waterproof and the surface is mopped, and because the underlay bonded to its back keeps the build-up shallow where the hall meets the front-room door; over the levelled boards of a Grangetown terrace it floats on its click joint with nothing else beneath.

On the slab of a Fairwater semi it needs only a checked membrane; in a Cardiff Bay flat the lease usually asks for an acoustic layer beneath; at Plasdwr the screed is heated and the plank is listed as compatible with it. A Cathays landlord replaces a scuffed board on its own between tenants. The herringbone block in the same range gives a CF10 hall the parquet look on the same core.

Semi-detached houses are 30% of the Cardiff stock, and the semi's kitchen-diner, timber at the front and concrete under the extension, is a rigid-vinyl floor more often than any other in Cardiff: one click floor across both bases, an underlay chosen per base, and no seam at the join. The wear layer decides the room: 0.55 mm for the kitchen and the hall, 0.3 mm where the traffic is lighter.

Terraced houses are 30% of the homes in Cardiff, and the terrace is where the rigid-vinyl range does most of its work in Cardiff: the kitchen at the back, often a concrete floor with a history of damp, and the hallway that takes the traffic. A rigid board floats over both on an underlay, and its stiff core bridges the small unevenness an old floor has. Over a slab the base is checked for moisture first; BS 8203 practice puts the limit at 75 percent relative humidity under a sealed hygrometer.