Understanding About Click Resilient Flooring
Click resilient flooring is a type of wateproof flooring that can be installed in a glueless (interlocking) fashion. In the market, many flooring companies name and trademark this type of flooring is many ways such as luxury vinyl tiles, luxury resilient flooring, high end and so on. In fact, click resilient flooring is just the same.
Here are some common characteristic of a click resilient flooring.
1) Waterproof
The flooring is usually 100 percent waterproof that make it suitable for wet areas such as the kitchen, basement and laundry area.
2) Termite Proof
As the flooring is inedible to termites, such termite proof flooring is therefore recommended to be installed in houses near forested areas.
3) High Slip Resistant
The flooring is highly slip resistant naturally; this enhances safety for the users when it is both installed in residential and commercial area.
4) Can be re-used over and over again.
The flooring for residential uses usually has a good lifetime warranty period and for commercial areas will be between 10 to 20 years. Home owners can bring the existing click resilient flooring to their new homes when moving houses. Thus, making this flooring easily re-usable.
5) Solid Feel on the Ground
When you drop a heavy load or walk over the click resilient flooring, there’ll be a solid feel and no hollow sound. This therefore gives a silent impact on the subfloor.
6) Wear Layer and Thickness
Good quality click resilient flooring usually has a 5mm thickness and a 0.5mm wear layer. The wear layer is usually covered with a coating for scratch resistant purposes. Consumers may need to know click resilient flooring is only scratch resistant but not scratchproof.
7) High impact resistance
To enhance safety at home or at the commercial premises, such click resilient flooring also has high impact resistance so as to cushion the effects from falling to minimise injury and enhances safety. Therefore, such type of flooring is highly suitable for homes with the elderly.
In summary, by understanding the different names of click resilient flooring, consumers will therefore be able to get the right type of click resilient flooring product for their premises at the best quality with a good and reasonable pricing.
