VINYL
Real-life durability with floor-level visuals that hold up.
Luxury vinyl plank and tile for kitchens, basements, mudrooms, and rental suites — rooms where moisture and traffic outlast a softer floor.
What to look at
Characteristics that decide the spec.
The properties below shape every vinyl consultation — what we narrow on, in roughly the order it comes up.
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Wear layer
Wear-layer thickness is the single biggest predictor of how vinyl ages. We carry residential ranges with substantial wear layers and commercial ranges thicker again — the spec matches the traffic.
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Water resistance
Quality vinyl shrugs off spills and wet boots. It is not flood-proof — long-term standing water can still get under the click-lock. Treat as water-resistant, not waterproof.
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Install method
Click-lock floats over the subfloor, installs faster, and lifts in sections. Glue-down sits flatter, sounds more solid, and is what we recommend for commercial work.
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Core construction
Rigid-core SPC and WPC reduce telegraphing of subfloor irregularities. Our default for slab subfloors and basements.
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Sound rating
Underlay and core construction together set how vinyl sounds underfoot. We spec for the rooms below as well as the room being floored.
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Repairability
Click-lock plank lifts and replaces individually if a single piece is damaged. Glue-down repairs more invasively. Plan for it before the install.
How we work with this material
What good looks like.
Where vinyl earns its place is in rooms that punish other materials. We start by mapping which rooms get vinyl, which adjacent rooms get something else, and where the transitions land. That map drives wear-layer class — light residential, heavy residential, or light commercial — before we ever talk visuals.
Subfloor preparation is the half of vinyl install most quotes hide. Vinyl shows what's underneath it more than carpet does; thin or out-of-plane subfloors telegraph through. We assess flatness and moisture before quoting and include the prep needed to land the floor flat — not surprise-invoice it later.
If you're choosing vinyl for a basement or slab subfloor, ask about rigid-core construction (SPC or WPC), the moisture testing on the slab, and the underlay's role in sound transmission to the room above. The right vinyl spec is closer to a list of decisions than a single product pick.
Suppliers we work with
- Mohawk
- ShawContract
- Olympia Tile
Talk through your vinyl project.
Tell us a little about the room — square footage if you have it, timeline if you have one, and what you're starting with. We'll come back with the next step.