LVT Vinyl Flooring in Southampton

Southampton has a large share of flats and a large student population, and both point the same way: to the BML rigid vinyl plank, which spends little of the height a lease allows because the underlay is bonded to it, and which a Portswood or Highfield landlord repairs one board at a time between tenancies. The plank itself is listed as waterproof, so the kitchen and the shower room of a let take the same floor as the bedrooms.

Along the water at Ocean Village and Woolston the plank takes the damp air of a waterfront flat without swelling at the joints, over concrete with the lease’s acoustic layer beneath. At Bargate Quarter the screed is heated and the plank is listed as compatible with it. In a Freemantle terrace it floats over levelled boards, and the herringbone block in the same range gives an SO15 hall the parquet pattern on the same core.

Flats are 42% of the homes in the Southampton 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.

Private renting is 29% of households in Southampton, and the rigid-vinyl range is the rental floor for the wet rooms in Southampton: 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.