LVT Vinyl Flooring in Manchester

A third of Manchester households rent privately, and for the landlord reletting a Fallowfield or Rusholme house the BML rigid vinyl planks answer the question that matters: what does the floor look like after the third tenancy. The plank itself is listed as waterproof, the surface is mopped, and a damaged board is clicked out and replaced without lifting the room.

The build differs by building. Over the levelled boards of a terrace the underlay bonded to the plank is all that is needed; over the concrete of an Ancoats flat the lease usually asks for an acoustic layer beneath as well; over the heated screed at Victoria North the plank is listed as compatible with underfloor heating and lays without an extra membrane. The herringbone block in the same range gives a Cheetham or Crumpsall hallway the parquet look on the same waterproof core.

Flats are 35% of the homes in the Manchester 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.

Terraced houses are 28% of the homes in Manchester, and the terrace is where the rigid-vinyl range does most of its work in Manchester: 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.