Maybe most customers will purpose the requirement before installation: 'what other laying selection can i choose except common methods such as H type or Step type?' I will tell you that actually there are much more parquet selections in the market after experiencing many years development. In order to satisfied customers' versatile requirements, manufactures focused on researching and innovating different parquets in past years. Then more and more design and patterns start to go into public sight, which gives customers more choices to decorate their home or shop.
Commonly parquet flooring will combine many shapes and colors. Nowadays some new kinds of parquet flooring have started to seek simple and concise style with only one
shape or one color, but with a better geometric shape feeling. Actually parquet flooring can be made of many raw materials such as SPC, LVT and so on. And what is SPC parquet flooring? Which one is better? Here i will explain them one by one.
As its name shows, it is one kind of flooring which is made of SPC and made into parquet shapes. Actually there are two types, one is a installing method which can lay out different patterns and give people elegant geometric feeling. The other is an entire flooring piece with patterns on its overlay. SPC or LVT flooring can both be made as entire parquet flooring, which looks like just combined by many small pieces and very realistic.
It is because SPC is more stable and durable than LVT due to its excellent physical performance. Another important point is that commonly LVT thickness can only reach up to 3~4mm at most, while SPC thickness can be made as 5~6mm or even more. Enough thickness ensures its grooves depth, and can be pressed to showcase many kinds of patterns. What’ more, SPC parquet flooring is more stiff than LVT parquet flooring and will ensure the whole structure not deform easily when withstanding pressure or impact.
SPC parquet flooring is made of PVC resin and limestone powder, which does not have affinity to water. Its swelling rate is only 0.1%, while regular laminate will be around 18%. Based on this characteristic, it can lay in many areas such as kitchen and bathroom.
It has three times limestone powder than PVC resin, which provides the entire flooring better stability in various kinds of environment. When temperature or humidity highly change, it will not curl and deform seriously.
It has many outstanding physical performance such as scratch resistant, dent resistant, impact resistant, wear resistant and so on. Commonly it has about 20 years lifespan for residential use and 10 years lifespan for commercial use based on 0.5mm wear layer thickness.
Parquet flooring can let you DIY many different patterns and colors combination. Square shape, triangle shape or other complex shapes. You can select and create a personalized style by yourself. What’s more, parquet flooring gives you a chance to select more colors combination. You can lay it in everywhere at home such as kitchen, bedroom and living room.
Entire parquet flooring is easy to clean and maintain because it is not combined with many plank pieces by click locking system. It will easier for you to clean stain and rubbish in parquet flooring’s grooves.
Sometimes residential customers will purchase same shape flooring pieces and arrange by different unique methods such as herringbone and chevron. Last time i have introduced how to install them. If you want to know more about herringbone and chevron installation guide, please click here Herringbone & Chevron Installation Guide. Herringbone and Chevron can provide you a better feeling when living inside due to its sense of lines and geometric feeling. It can also match other furniture items and make your home become more elegant.
There are many other parquets as well, which are described as different names such as Versailles, Basket and so on. Each one provides unique aesthetics feeling. In European countries, especially Spain, prefer to these fixed colors and complex patterns. People prefer to choose wood texture instead of stone or coral texture as well.
Though SPC parquet flooring can provides a better pattern than regular SPC flooring, its producing and labor cost can not be ignored. Whether to choose it or not to decorate the house should be considered well. Another point you need to consider is whether it is sutiable for your home entire style. Parquet Flooring always contains complex shapes and colors combination, can give you a better geometric feeling, but can also make the flooring much different from other decoration such as wall panels and ceiling.
Keep regular cleaning every week, it is better if you can do it every day. You can sweep and mop the flooring, and do not forget to pay more attention to each corner and grooves. Bacterium will breed when in wet environment, so please dry the flooring after every time cleaning. In addition, do not let flooring in high temperature variation environment for too long time, which will cause unrecoverable damage to it. At last, be careful when moving heavy furniture items such as tables or beds in order to avoid scratching and heavy impact.
Parquet flooring as a new laying method for vinyl flooring, has become another special and unique choice for many customers. Decorate your home with different colors and shapes will make you get a distinctive feeling. Parquet flooring consists of same materials with SPC flooring, which has very outstanding stability and durability. It will become a new trend for some customers when viewing so many kinds of flooring in the market nowadays. If you want to know more about it, Protex Flooring will be your best choice.
