Mid Browns Luxury Rigid Vinyl Flooring
Mid-brown Rigid Vinyl offers the authentic appeal of natural hardwood with added durability and stability. The balanced colour tone is perfect for living rooms and open-plan spaces, delivering warmth, versatility and long-lasting everyday comfort.
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“The plank itself takes on no water, and it stays warm and quiet underfoot. The floor built for a kitchen that actually gets used.”
— our flooring team
Mid BrownsThe look
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The look
Mid Browns in the BML rigid vinyl range are the natural, farmhouse and rustic oak designs. Nine floors across the 5.2 mm plank, the 6.5 mm wide plank and the herringbone block: the conventional oak colour for the rooms that need a waterproof floor.
The oak colour most people mean
Three formats
Textured, all of them
In depth
Choosing mid-brown rigid vinyl
The mid browns are the rigid vinyl equivalent of natural oak: the conventional warm colour that sits under most kitchens and most furniture without argument. Nine BML floors. Four are 5.2 mm planks at 181 mm by 1220 mm with a 0.3 mm wear layer: Natural Oak, Natural Washed Oak, Grey-brown Oak and Farmhouse Oak. Four are 6.5 mm wide planks at 228 mm by 1524 mm with a 0.55 mm wear layer: Rustic Oak, Smoked Limed Oak, Natural Oak and European Oak. One is the 6.5 mm European Oak herringbone block at 126 mm by 630 mm, also 0.55 mm.
All nine share the construction of the range: solid polymer core, listed as waterproof, underlay attached, textured, commercial grade, listed as compatible with underfloor heating, 25 year manufacturer's warranty. The format is the first decision, and it follows the room. A kitchen-diner or an open-plan ground floor takes the wide plank, whose long boards read as one surface and whose 0.55 mm wear layer is the specification for a room with grit and chairs. Bedrooms and living rooms upstairs take the 5.2 mm plank.
In practice
Within the band the tones spread further than the name suggests. European Oak and Natural Oak are the reference colour; Farmhouse Oak leans golden; Rustic Oak prints more knots and variation; Smoked Limed Oak, Natural Washed Oak and Grey-brown Oak sit at the cooler, greyer edge and are the ones to look at if the walls are a cool white. The printed designs repeat within a box, so a floor of one design reads more even than an oak floor of the same tone.
A mid-brown floor is also the practical choice for a household with dogs, children or a garden door, because it hides what a pale floor shows and does not absorb light the way a dark one does. The use classes the standards apply to that kind of traffic are quoted below.
FAQ
Which mid-brown vinyl is closest to a natural oak floor?
Wide plank or standard plank for a kitchen-diner?
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Standards
What the published standards say
Each entry is quoted from its source and linked to it. The full set is in the standards reference.
EN ISO 10874 — use classes
EN ISO 10874 sets out a classification of floor coverings by area and intensity of use; the classes are 21, 22 and 23 for domestic use, 31 to 34 for commercial use and 41 to 43 for industrial use.
| Class 21 | Domestic moderate/light |
|---|---|
| Class 22 | Domestic general/medium |
| Class 23 | Domestic heavy |
| Class 31 | Commercial moderate |
| Class 32 | Commercial general |
| Class 33 | Commercial heavy |
| Class 41 | Industrial moderate |
| Class 42 | Industrial general |
| Class 43 | Industrial heavy |
“In EN ISO 10874 a classification system for different use classes is described, with references to the relevant product standards.”
Source: How to use the Floor Covering Standard Symbols (FCSS) — EUFCA, symbols per EN 15398Maximum floor surface temperature
EN 1264 caps the floor surface temperature at 29 °C in the occupied area, 35 °C in the edge (perimeter) zone and 33 °C in bathrooms.
| occupied area | 29 °C |
|---|---|
| edge zone | 35 °C |
| bathrooms | 33 °C |
“Max. surface temperatures in DIN EN 1264: • 29 °C in the occupied area • 35 °C in the edge zone • 33 °C in bathrooms”
Source: Uponor underfloor heating/cooling — Planning information (Technical Information TI-1186660)Related looks
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