Vinyl Sheet Flooring VS Vinyl Tile Flooring

Vinyl flooring can be divided into two categories of tile and sheet, Do you know the differences between them? So let's compare tile and sheet's performance.
Vinyl Sheet Flooring

 
Advantages:
1) Less seams: it'll effectively prevent bacterial growth, and protect us from bacterial.
2) It contains more PVC, so your foot can feel comfortable.
3) Excellent anti-skid and anti-wear performance.
4) Fire-rating/Grade B1 level: it is excellent fire-rating in flooring field.
5) Environmental protection and non-toxic: the flooring is made of PVC which is harmless to our health as well as environment.

Disadvantages:

1) Not easy to change when damaged.
2) It need better professional installation techniques.
3) It demands higher surface flatness evenness.

Vinyl sheet flooring generally applicable to schools, hospitals, offices, factories, shopping malls, car, ship, subway, train, household, laboratory, laboratories, scientific research, stair, nursing homes, libraries, movie theaters and other places.


Vinyl Tile Flooring  
  

Advantages:


1) To replace conveniently when damaged.
2) Easier installation and short construction period,reduce your workloads.
3) Vinyl tile flooring can be paved to what patterns you like.

4) Good Indentation resistance and sound-absorbing effect. 
5) Excellent anti-skid and anti-wear performance. 
6) Environmental protection and non-toxic: the flooring is made of PVC which is harmless to our health as well as environment. 
7) Fire-rating/Grade B1 level: it is excellent fire-rating in flooring field.


Disadvantages:

1) More seams, we have to avoid water immersion.
2) Integral feeling is not so strong as sheet flooring. 
3) Less elastic than sheet flooring. 
4) Poor dimensional stability, but our manufacturers will add the glass fiber layer in the floor  
*PVC sheet flooring suitable for use in a shopping mall, supermarket, corridor, the channel, home, school, office, hall and other places.
*One other important note--vinyl flooring is made of PVC and volatile organic compounds, people with respiratory issues have to beware of VOC inhalation.
*In addition to the above comparison, we suggest you follow the guidance from flooring specialist.
 

PVC Flooring Care

PVC flooring has been a new popular and light decorative materials of floor and it has many advantages, like anti-microbic, anti-slip, sound-absorbing, comfortable feet feeling and easy to clean. Scientific cleaning and maintenance for PVC flooring will lead to brighter color and prolong longevity.


1.Regularly clear various pollutants on the flooring
Dust and sands will damage the surface of flooring,and impregnation substances could discolor PVC flooring possibly, therefore we must remove these those substances and sweep timely. 
 
2.Avoid hard and rough cleaning equipment
When serious impregnation happens,you need use neutral reagent and scrub flooring with wet linen afterwards. To prevent sharp objects damaging the flooring surface, steel wire ball and scouring pad must be prohibited.
 
3.Prohibit flooring soaking
Dipping in water for long time will affect flooring working life though waterproof glue can obstruct water, water will enter into the joint parts and result in loose connection.
Don’t often clear waxed flooring using wet mop in order to avoid sewage sticking to floor, the wax layer will be cracked in that case over time.
 
4.Use alcohol to remove special pollutant
Remove solvent, oil paint and medicine immediately on flooring with alcohol.

5.Reinforce waxing maintenance
Reinforce waxing maintenance for PVC flooring in places with large population flow and abrasion, put doormat at the entrance of public places to resist dirt.

6.Pay attention to fire prevention and high temperature
Fire will break the PVC flooring through fireproofing grade B1, so don’t put burning cigarette end, mosquito-repellent incense and any other high-temperature object on the flooring directly.

How to choose qualified PVC flooring ?

Choosing tips for PVC flooring:
1. Smelling with nose to check whether the flooring contains pungent odor, as you know qualified PVC flooring has no odor, but flooring with poor quality has much formaldehyde.

2. Testing the stain resistance. Putting some dirt things on the flooring surface, and wipe it with cloth afterwards, if it's difficult to clean the dirt, then the flooring’s stain resistance is very poor.

3. Testing the anti-wear performance. You can brush the flooring with blade or other sharp objects, and the apparent scratch show the poor anti-wear performance.

4. Testing the acid and alkali resistance ability of the PVC flooring. Putting little alcohol, oil or hydrochloric acid on the flooring surface, and observing whether the flooring surface be with aging next day, the obvious aging shows the disappointing acid and alkali resistance, PVC flooring with high quality is still bright however.

5. Test the antimicrobial properties of PVC flooring. Putting some things which easy to mildew, such as bread, on the flooring surface, and put the flooring on the shady place. After that, observing if there is mildew about two days, shoddy PVC flooring has serious mildew.

The Best PVC Flooring for family

With the progress of science and technology, the new material and new technology take more choice for people. The PVC flooring became one of the most popular flooring materials. It has wide usage in our life. Why vinyl floor is popular among the people?
1.Environmental protection
The main material of PVC flooring is polyvinyl chloride, which is environmental and innocuous recycled resource. The PVC was used to our life, such as tableware, medical PVC infusion bag and so on. The vinyl flooring’s major ingredient is natural stone powder, according to test authority departments of the state, the PVC flooring not contain any radioactive element.
2.Wear-resistance
PVC flooring’s surface has a transparent wear layer, which wear-resisting revolution achieve 300000 turns. The useful life depends on wear-resisting thickness. The survey shows that 0.3mm wear layer’s useful life more than 10 years normally.
3.Anti-slip
The surface of vinyl floor proceeds to dispose. The PVC flooring’s surface will more astringent when encounter water.
4.Fireproof
The fireproof grade achieves Bf1 and our PVC flooring’s fireproof grade is Bf1. The fireproof function of PVC floor will increase our safety.
5.High elasticity
The PVC flooring is soft and comfortable. It will be rapid recovery, when the heavy objects drops on it. The surveys reveal that the staffs’ injure rate reduce about 70% for PVC floor store of installation PVC vinyl flooring.
6.Sound absorption
The PVC flooring has good sound absorption and the sound absorption reach 20 decibels. This becomes best choice for home.

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How to Maintain the PVC Flooring in Autumn

Through the moist spring and hot summer, the dry autumn will be coming. Maintaining the PVC flooring is becoming more important. About more maintaining flooring skills as follows:
1)Keeping room humidity
The dry weather is one of marks of coming autumn, however,  the too dry weather will make PVC flooring emerge some issues, for instance, divides the opening and surface roughness. In order to solve these issues, we should keep the room humidity between 50 percent and 70 percent or use the clean humid cloth to wipe the PVC flooring.
2)Avoiding the sun-shine
Although, the autumn sun-shine intensity not as summer sun-shine intensity. This still need cause people's attention. You can pull the curtain, when sun shine too strong. You should cover the carpet or other decoration in balcony and other sun-shine places.
3)Keeping clean and tidy
The dust will be increase in autumn, due to the dry weather. If you not clean the PVC flooring on time, PVC flooring crack will produce many dust. In order to solve the issues, you should cover the carpet and paste the dust excluder in the door.
4)Daubing the wax
In order to keep the PVC flooring luminance, daubing the wax is one of the best ways. You should clean the floor before daubing wax. Starting to daub the wax. Finally, you need use soft cloth to wipe it, until it is becomes smoothness.  

PVC Flooring VS Tiles and Marble

Many people use the tiles and marble in life. However, about the PVC flooring, how much do you know about it? Now let's compare with PVC flooring and tiles, marble.

1) Installation: PVC flooring is easy to install, while, the tiles and marbles are heavy to install. The PVC flooring just need to brush glue in the back or lock each other.
2) Environment: The PVC flooring have no radiation, however, the tiles and marble have a little radiation. The PVC flooring's material is PVC and caco_3, it is no harm for our body. The tiles and marble have radon, so the tiles and marble can release some radiation.
3) Property: The PVC flooring is waterproof, fireproof and anti-slip; The tiles and marble is not anti-slip.

4) Maintenance: The PVC flooring is easy to maintain, you just use the clean cloth to wipe it. The tiles and marbles are easy to be polluted and be dyed.
5) Demolition: PVC flooring is lighter than tiles and marble, so it is easy to dismantle, however, tiles and marble is too heavy, so it is hard to dismantle.
6) Comfort: The PVC flooring is more comfortable and more suitable than tiles and marble to use in coming winter.

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How to Maintain the WPC Flooring

There are many people choose the WPC Flooring in our life. However how many do you know about the WPC Flooring maintain? Now let’s know it.

1) In order to reduce the floor wear, we need add the foot pad in entrance, and clean it in time.
2) Prohibiting wear nail shoes in WPC Flooring.
3) Please far way the heat source (such as electric kettle and other over 60 degree centigrade object), prolong the WPC Flooring life.
4) Please choose Neutral detergent and warm water to clean it, don’t use the organic solvent and Strong acid and alkali.
5) If you want to prolong the WPC Flooring life, please keep surface clean, dry and regular waxing (generally 1-2 months)
6) Please use the clean and soft the cloth to wipe the WPC Flooring.
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