LVT Vinyl Flooring in Nottingham

Landlords in Lenton, Dunkirk and the Arboretum buy floors for houses that turn over every summer, and the BML rigid vinyl plank is bought for the day the tenancy ends: one damaged board is clicked out and replaced, the surface is mopped rather than refinished, and the plank itself is listed as waterproof, so the kitchen and the shower room of an HMO get the same floor as the bedrooms.

The same plank serves the owner in Sherwood who wants one floor from the hall to the back door, floating on its bonded underlay over levelled boards. On the slab of an Aspley or Bilborough estate house nothing but a checked membrane goes beneath it; in a Lace Market flat the lease usually asks for an acoustic layer; at Trent Basin the screed is heated and the plank is listed as compatible with it. The herringbone block in the same range gives an NG7 hall the pattern.

Semi-detached houses are 33% of the Nottingham 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 Nottingham: 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 27% of the homes in Nottingham, and the terrace is where the rigid-vinyl range does most of its work in Nottingham: 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.