LVT Flooring stands for Luxury Vinyl Tiles, also known as Luxury Vinyl Planks(LVP). LVT is a new type of vinyl flooring, becoming one of the best-selling products on the flooring market.
An LVT floor has a realistic look to the natural hardwood, ceramic, and stone flooring and also has lots of advantages.It has been widely used in a commercial facility, hospital, and home decoration.
As a professional vinyl floor supplier, COCOROSA offers 4 types of LVT flooring according to its installation methods,
which include Glue Down(Dry Back), Loose Lay, Click Lock, and Sintered Core.
Vinyl flooring in china develops faster and faster on the market. The sintered core click LVT is newly presented by Cocorsa only,
a premium version of vinyl flooring that combines the advantages of SPC and Sintered Core Click.
UV Coating: It is proved that the flooring strengthened by UV paint has a high resistance to wear, dent, and temperature.
Wear Layer: This transparent layer provides effective wear resistance for the vinyl core. The thicker it is, the more durable the core will be.
Decor Film: This layer provides a realistic pattern and painting of natural hardwood and stone for the floor.
Center Layer: This layer is made from PVC, to provide excellent dimensional stability for the floor.
Backing Layer: This is the layer made from PVC, to provide resilience and comfortable underfoot feeling.
UV Coating: It is proved that the flooring strengthened by UV paint has a high resistance to wear, dent, and temperature.
Wear Layer: This transparent layer provides effective wear resistance for the vinyl core. The thicker it is, the more durable the core will be.
Decor Film: This layer provides a realistic pattern and painting of natural hardwood and stone for the floor.
Upper Bottom & Middle Bottom: These layers provide dimensional stability and waterproof performance for the floor.
Glass Fiber: This layer enhances the stability of performance for the floor.
Anti-slip Backing: This layer provides slip-resistant performance during the installation.
UV coating: It is proved that the flooring strengthened by UV paint has a high resistance to wear, dent, and temperature.
Wear layer: This transparent layer provides effective wear resistance for the vinyl core. The thicker it is, the more durable the core will be.
Decor film: This layer provides a realistic pattern and painting of natural hardwood and stone for the floor.
Upper bottom & middle bottom: These layers provide dimensional stability and waterproof performance for the floor.
Glass fiber: This layer enhances the stability of performance for the floor.
Backing layer: This layer balances the structure of the whole plank.
UV coating: COCOROSA applies 2 transparent urethane layers to ensure superior high scratch-resistant, stain-resistant, and waterproof performance, saving clean&maintenance cost.
Wear layer: This transparent layer restores the authentic colour and embossing, provides resistance to abrasion and superior durability.
Decor film: This layer provides the high definition decoration for the plank. Various colors, and patterns are provided and customization is also available in COCOROSA.
Pvc top layer: It provides comfortable foot feeling & excellent flexibility.
Sintered core layer: High-density core, 100% waterproof, super stability for lifetime.
PVC bottom layer: Keep balance, sound & slip-resistant.
As a popular product on the market, many homeowners and business owners choose LTV flooring for their projects. LVT flooring has lots of benefits as follow
Waterproof & Fireproof
LVT flooring can withstand exposure to moisture as it has a great waterproof performance. It won't cause molding by high moisture unless it is soaked in the water. A qualified LVT floor has a fire rating of B1, which means it has tremendous fireproof performance. Any flame can go out very quickly on the LVT floor.
LVT flooring is a high-class resilient flooring that looks like natural wood and stone flooring. One of the biggest advantages of LVT flooring is its excellent imitation of real wood and stone flooring. Its vivid texture and embossing style make people difficult to distinguish which is the read one. Besides, LVT flooring is different from traditional PVC vinyl flooring. It is usually made to thicker planks, whose shapes and sizes meet the popular specification. Therefore, that’s why LVT is called Luxury Vinyl Flooring.
LVT Wood Flooring: It obtains colors, grain, pattern from natural wood. The wood grain is almost the same as real wood.
LVT Stone Flooring: It not only highlights the colors of real stone, as well as the texture. There are two different options - Polished Surface and Matte Surface.
LVT | Laminate | Hardwood | Carpet | Tile | |
Waterproof | Yes | No | No | No | Yes |
Fade Resistance | Moderate | Moderate | Low | Low | High |
Wear Resistance | High | High | Moderate | Low | High |
Stains Resistance | High | High | Moderate | Low | High |
Scratch Resistance | High | High | Low | / | High |
Maintenance | Easy | Easy | Moderate | Difficult | Easy |
Installation | DIY Friendly | DIY Friendly | Professional | Professional | Professional |
Environmental Performance | Strong | Normal | Normal | Weak | Normal |
Fire Classification | Strong | Moderate | Poor | Poor | Strong |
Use | Indoor Only | Indoor Only | Indoor & Outdoor | Indoor & Outdoor | Indoor & Outdoor |
LVT and LVP both belong to luxury vinyl flooring. They have the same performance and durability but find the difference in the shape.
LVP stands for Luxury Vinyl Plank. As its name implies, LVP usually comes in plank shape and imitates the look of hardwood flooring.
LVT stands for Luxury Vinyl Tile, so it is usually made into tile-sized pieces. LVT has a realistic look of natural stone and ceramic tile.
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It is easy and simple to install LVT flooring by yourself. But before installation, there is some preparation work that you need to know. As a responsible vinyl floor supplier, COCOROSA lists out some must-do steps as follow.
The sub-floor must be smooth and flat. Check the sub-floor if it is level, especially the concrete floor. Fill any holes with patching compound and sand down any higher spots on the surface. Any unevenness will be visible on the surface of LVT, which can lead to deformation and other problems.
LVT PRODUCTION PROCESS
RAW MATERIAL INSPECTION
COCOROSA undertakes strict quality control in production process to ensure superior quality of the flooring, which is what a leading vinyl floor supplier should do.
COCOROSA guarantees good quality of each LVT plank through quality inspection when the production is finished, making effort to be one of the best vinyl plank flooring brands.