Author: Site Editor Publish Time: 2022-05-31 Origin: Site
SPC flooring as the third generation of vinyl flooring, has improved weakness of original LVT and WPC, is becoming a better flooring decoration choice for more and more people. However, even SPC flooring has many advantages, it will still occur some problems during long time using. Here i will analysis these problems and tell you how to avoid and reduce these problems to the greatest extend.
Though SPC has very excellent physical stable performance due to its raw materials which combine PVC resin and limestone powder(rate 1:3), it will still deform and curl when laying in extreme bad environment for too long time. Here i will introduce a concept called ‘Swelling Ratio’ firstly. It is an index to evaluate flooring’s water resistance. Commonly in the market, laminate swelling ratio is about 18%, water resistant laminate will reach 10% or even 5%, and SPC flooring is only 0.1%. This data can indicate that SPC is nearly 100% waterproof. However, if SPC flooring is laying in very humid environment, too much moisture and water droplets on its overlay will make SPC flooring whole structure become weak and easy to curl.
What’s more, too large temperature variation will also influence SPC flooring’s stability. As we know, PVC will expand when meeting high temperature and will shrink when meeting low temperature. Especially in summer, SPC flooring on laundry will be easily broken and curl, sometimes will even crack.
Protex’s SPC flooring can only cause less than 0.1% size deformation after staying in 80℃ climate oven with 6 hours. Even it shows very good result after laboratory testing, avoiding too strong sunlight and cleaning water droplets on its overlay are still necessary.
Thus if you want to decorate your home by using SPC flooring, bedroom, living room, dining room and kitchen are the best areas. Bathroom is always wet and laundry is always hot in summer. Ceramic tiles will be more suitable for bathroom while engineered wood flooring will be more suitable for laundry.
Not like solid wood or engineered wood flooring, commonly SPC flooring will not cause mildew during using. Whereas, most customers will choose to add underlay such as IXPE or EVA to its back in order to get sound resistance and better foot feeling, which will also cause mildew breeding when laying in humid environment for too long time. Then after some days breeding and growing, more and more mildew will attack the whole SPC flooring and start to appear on its overlay. This phenomenon will bring a high health risk to people, especially for kids and pets. Therefore, choose a better underlay is also important. Protex can provide coating EVA, which is coated with a film layer to insulate water from touching EVA. It is also called wet resistant EVA. In addition, Protex SPC flooring can add anti-mildew content to its UV coating as well, which will provide customers with a more healthy and safe flooring.
SPC flooring is not like LVT dry back, nearly all kinds of planks have click locking system in the market. Nevertheless, if the click locking strength is not strong enough, it will be very easier to separate and crack when experiencing environment variation. Besides, this will also cause the problems that when people walking on it, two neighbored planks will appear height difference and finally lead to click locking broken.
Protex SPC flooring can reach more than 100N pulling strength between male and female grooves, while more than 75N is good. Let me show you some test results to see its better click locking strength.
The first sheet represents 3mm thickness SPC flooring locking strength. We can see that the max splitting strength is 145N. It is a good testing data. And if we use 5mm thickness specimen to test, we will get the below sheet. It is obviously that the max splitting strength has increased up to 189N. Therefore, if you want to avoid the above cracking problems, trying to choose a thicker SPC flooring will be a good idea. Moreover, daily maintenance is also important because wet and humid environment will reduce the click locking lifespan.
SPC flooring is easily to scratch by sharp objects during daily use. Actually UV coating will protect the overlay from hurting, but sharp objects impact or heavy press will still cause damage to the planks. When you want to move some furniture items such as chairs or tables, their legs will scratch the surface seriously. So if you want to use SPC flooring for longer time, please move furniture items slightly and slowly if possible. Also, do not forget to take care of your pets in order to avoid paw scratch.
In all, the above listing problems are very common during daily life. Make a plan to maintain the flooring regularly is a good idea. Anyway, choose a better SPC flooring is the most important precondition. If you want to know more about how to choose a good quality flooring, please click here How to Choose a Quality Wholesale Vinyl Plank Flooring Supplier？Protex will provide good price, better quality and best service for all customers. Protex is always your reliable one-stop supplier.
