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Yes! Tri-Star Carpets installs vinyl flooring. We
emphasize quality and affordability. Call 650.365.7707 for an estimate
or for more information on our services.
Understanding Vinyl Performance
The wearlayer is critical to the performance of a
vinyl floor. The thickness of the wearlayer varies with each resilient
collection, or series and is generally measured in mils. The thickness
of a mil is about the same as a page in your telephone book. So
a 10 mil wearlayer would be comparable in thickness to about 10
pages in your telephone book. Generally the more expensive vinyl
floors have thicker wearlayers.
Your expectations for how long your vinyl floor will
look new and fresh are based on the wearlayer's performance. To
help you understand wearlayer construction we need to define what
the performance characteristics are we are looking for in a vinyl
floor. These performance characteristics can be broken into several
key areas:
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Easy to clean |
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Stays looking like-new |
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Resists staining from
normal household products |
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Doesn't show scratches
easily |
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Easy to cleanup spills |
The easy to clean relates to how tough it is to remove
soiling and other marks from a floor's surface. When a floor begins
to look old and drabby it is usually caused by hundreds of fine
hair-line scratches in the wearlayer. The fine scratches come from
dirt, grit, and sand laying on the wearlayer's surface. Another
problem low-end floors and older vinyl floors have is staining of
the wearlayer, which can happen from asphalt driveway sealers, Kool-Aid,
plant food, marking pens, etc…
The new generation of vinyls have all the ingredients
to resist showing wear and staining far better than any other vinyl
floor made today.
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