Has anyone fitted Polyflor LVT flooring?

minibbb

Morning folks
We need new flooring for the entire downstairs of our house- we have dogs so hard flooring and something hard-wearing is ideal.

Originally we were looking at quickstep LVT (glue down) but I came across polyflor this week which seems to have a great range of colours and is cheaper at about £16pm inc vat

Has anyone got it and can provide feedback on both appearance and how it's wearing please? After a mid to dark colour wood effect.

Many thanks!

Doozergirl

We have it. Have had it down for 18 months.

It!!!8217;s great. Not sure what else to say. We have two dogs, a builder and two rugby players in the house. It gets tested.

minibbb

Ooh thanks Doozergirl that's great to hear! Was worried the lower price point may mean it wasn't as good.

Can you remember which one you have? The Camaro range looks good but I also like a couple in the affinity range which are the commercial ones and apparently a bit tougher wearing.

FreeBear

Not used the Polyfloor range, but I do have LVT click-lock tiles in the kitchen. They've only been down a few months so far, so can't comment on durability... But dead easy to lay, and if the tiles need to be lifted for any reason, it is not a problem.

I have a manhole cover in the middle of the kitchen (don't ask why...) and have had to gain access to it over Christmas. Having click-lock tiles made it so much easier than it would have been with glue down or sheet vinyl.

A couple of comments re the click-lock tiles - Wastage is quite high when fitting round units & awkward walls. Heavy furniture will leave a mark where the legs make contact with the floor. Worth putting small offcuts of tiles under the legs to reduce the problem.

lg13mza

We did the whole bungalow in Camaro loc. From a wear point of view its great, although we don't where shoes inside. The only issue I have had is where the floor wasn't as level as it should have been and you can see where the backing of the tile has cracked. But that is down to the quality of the fitting (me!)

J_B

Long story short ...
We did all the research and chose Polyflor as it seemed to tick all the boxes for price and durability. We were going to put it into our new project to do holiday lets.
Sadly under building regs the apartments needed to pass an acoustic test which required a certain underlay which Polyflor wouldn't guarantee their product on top of.
We went back to the drawing board and ended up with Lifestyle Flooring
http://www.lifestyle-designerfloors.co.uk/designerfloors
(crap website BTW!)
which hopefully ticks all the boxes for durability and is guaranteed on top of acoustic matting.

minibbb

Really helpful stuff thanks folks !!!55357;!!!56397; sounds like it should be fine then.

I'll check out the lifestyle stuff too JB thanks- noise isn't such an issue as we are in a house but useful to know nonetheless

J_B

minibbb wrote: »

noise isn't such an issue as we are in a house but useful to know nonetheless

It wasn't the noise that was the issue, just the warranty that was a doubt.

Robtrem

Dont touch it !! we've had it just over 3 years and even though it was professionally fitted with underlay on a flat floor the joints and edges are cracking up. The fitters have been back but now Polyflor use a new system and there are only a few boxes left of the old type. I have a whole bungalow fitted with it. Polyflor warranty is a farce they dont want to know and want the original batch numbers to do anything. Very poor customer care. Think very carefully before you buy comero by polyflor

robatwork

Robtrem wrote: »

Dont touch it !! we've had it just over 3 years and even though it was professionally fitted with underlay on a flat floor the joints and edges are cracking up. The fitters have been back but now Polyflor use a new system and there are only a few boxes left of the old type.

You say don't touch it, but then say there is a new system.
From the (long term) posters ^^^^^ it sounds like the new system is more hard wearing than the old. Especially someone who knows the trade like doozergirl.

Robtrem

I would read the flooring forum professional fitters are having the same problems of the seams and joints cracking. The new system has the same seam weakness but maybe not so much on the joints . With hind sight would have bought quickstep not this poor quality product