Within the resilient flooring category, there are various of structurer designs for luxury vinyl planks. Each of these resilient flooring product offers considerably different features and advantages for builders and householders that are needing to install their floors. With considerable difference between these flooring products, one must understand the difference these type of vinyl floorings are in order to choose the ideal flooring products.
Type of Constructions in Luxury Vinyl Planks
- Dry Back Vinyl Planks
- Loose Lay Vinyl Planks
- Click & Lock Vinyl Planks
- Hybrid Structure ABA Vinyl Planks
- WPC Vinyl Planks
Dry Back Vinyl Planks
This is the most affordable floor covering product in the LVP options. Dry back luxury vinyl planks is especially popular for multifamily houses as well as for commercial space. As this LVP flooring generally has thickness of 1.2mm, 2.0mm, 2.5mm and 3.0mm, it makes this type of LVP more affordable with inexpensive prices.
Loose Lay Vinyl Planks
Loose lay luxury vinyl planks are designed with thicker base layer and an anti-slip underlayer for glue free loose fitting. The additional thickness provide additional weight to effective stabilize the LVP in position with anti-slip performance against the subfloor. A time saving floor covering products that cost a little higher but saves on labour time for installing and removal.
Click & Lock Vinyl Planks
Click & Lock system for floorings is not a new thing, there are many click technologies from Unilin, Valinge, and I4F. The minimal thickness for a click & lock vinyl flooring is 4.5mm for the base layer. As a loose lay flooring product, as suppose to the loose lay flooring, the click technology offers waterproof performance between the tiles as the click & lock system prevents the water from penetrating between the planks.
Hybrid Structure ABA Vinyl Planks
The hybrid structure ABA vinyl planks combines the benefits of flexible vinyl planks and rigid core vinyl planks. Essentially it is the combination of LVT with SPC layers, creating a structured flooring plank that has the touch of comfort from LVT with dimensional stability performance of SPC. However, this is considered the more expensive type of resilient flooring as the products needs a two step manufacturing process to combine LVT and SPC layers together.
WPC Vinyl Planks
An advanced type of LVP flooring that has implemented the foaming process in the base layer. While the WPC stands for Wood Polymer Composition, it does not contain any wood fiber composition at all. The WPC simply refers to the fact that with the foamed base layer it has a wood like sound reflection when walked on. Some WPC flooring also goes for AB structurer with LVT on the top for improved durability. WPC vinyl planks are also more premium in pricing.
