LVT Vinyl Flooring in Sheffield

Muddy boots from the Peak come in through the back door of a Sheffield house most weekends, and the BML rigid vinyl plank is the floor that shrugs them off: the plank itself is listed as waterproof, the surface is mopped, and the underlay bonded to the back keeps the build-up shallow at the step between a kitchen and a boot room. On the slab of a post-war semi in Firth Park it floats over a checked membrane with nothing else.

On the pre-war terraces of Sharrow and Burngreave the boards are levelled first, because a rigid click plank shows a dip as a rocking joint. For a landlord letting to students in Broomhill or Crookes, a scuffed plank is replaced on its own. Over the heated screed at Gleadless Valley the plank is listed as compatible with the heating; the tile format in the same range takes the utility room and the bathroom.

Semi-detached houses are 38% of the Sheffield 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 Sheffield: 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 26% of the homes in Sheffield, and the terrace is where the rigid-vinyl range does most of its work in Sheffield: 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.