LVT Vinyl Flooring in Coventry

Coventry is a city of houses, more than four in five households in one, and the BML rigid vinyl plank goes into them for the ground floor that runs from the hall through the kitchen to the back door as one plane: the plank itself is listed as waterproof, the surface is mopped, and on the inter-war slab of a Cheylesmore or Wyken semi it floats over a checked membrane on its own bonded underlay with nothing else beneath.

In the terraced halls of Earlsdon and Chapelfields, where traffic passes through a narrow width, the wear layer resists the grit that would mark a lacquered timber, and the boards go over levelled Victorian timber. At Friargate and Spon End the screed is heated and the plank is listed as compatible with it; for a landlord letting to students near Warwick University in Canley, one scuffed board is replaced on its own.

Terraced houses are 40% of the homes in Coventry, and the terrace is where the rigid-vinyl range does most of its work in Coventry: 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.

Private renting is 25% of households in Coventry, and the rigid-vinyl range is the rental floor for the wet rooms in Coventry: 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.