Polyflor luxury vinyl flooring collections authentically replicate the natural beauty of wood and stone with enhanced durability and easier maintenance. Flooring within any kind of housing is an opportunity to inject a sense of individuality and style into home interiors. From traditional to contemporary colours, textures and patterns, available in plank, tile or sheet format, the choice is extensive. Combining design and function, recent developments include interlocking planks and tiles for minimum disruption, with built in acoustic properties.

Flooring within a workplace must adhere to health & safety regulations and be durable enough to accommodate high levels of footfall. Environmental considerations within the workplace include noise control, underfoot comfort and indoor air quality. Polyflor flooring ranges are classified as low VOC and the availability of floor coverings with an acoustic foam layer can contribute significantly to reducing impact sound and improving underfoot comfort. Light Reflectance Values (LRV) are also available and can be used to ensure compliance to building regulations across multi-purpose spaces.

The performance requirement of flooring in education environments depend upon the function of the space, the age of the pupils, expected activity levels and the intensity of footfall. Easy to clean, tough and durable floor coverings are required to cope with the demands of complex learning environments. Polyflor’s diverse range of hard wearing, high-design product ranges can be used to create education environments that are both practical and visually appealing, bringing energy and vibrancy through the use of colour, texture and patterns.

A safe, clean and comforting environment for patients and staff is paramount within busy healthcare establishments. Polyflor's hardwearing floor coverings are easy to clean, offer enhanced slip resistance and acoustic benefits that help create high performance and aesthetically appealing environments. Recent innovations include specially designed patterns to aid those living with dementia, a stud-free safety flooring range for continually wet areas, and for quick turnaround renovations, an adhesive-free, loose lay safety flooring.

High levels of traffic require a robust, durable flooring, with conformance to internationally recognised standards for fire, slip resistance and acoustics. A variety of looks can be achieved in order to create unique spaces by using a selection of formats - sheet, tiles and planks in various colours, textures and finishes. Products that are quick to install, creating minimal disruption are preferable. Vinyl sheet can be welded to create a seamless space, impermeable to water, providing low maintenance, hygienic flooring solutions.

Heavy, repeated footfall is a characteristic of retail premises and floor coverings are required to be hardwearing, without compromising on aesthetics or design. On trend flooring collections that authentically replicate the look of natural materials are developed with the retail sector in mind. Stock availability of these attractive floor coverings in a variety of designs, colours, surface textures, can often be key to ensure the long term roll out of programmes. To avoid disruption flexible flooring solutions are required and these include loose lay, adhesive-free product ranges for quick turnaround projects.

Polyflor offers an extensive selection of fit-for-purpose products classified as suitable for very heavy commercial environments and intense use areas in a variety of industrial locations. For areas designed to meet specific static control requirements the Polyflor ESD family of floor coverings feature electrostatic dissipative or conductive properties. Within specialist environments high standards of cleanliness are often essential and products incorporating a polyurethane reinforcement, providing low maintenance benefits and resisting soiling and scuffing are available.