Hi all, Currently self-building and having a hard time getting some impartial advice on flooring types. Please give me your real world experience/product recommendations. The subfloor is block and beam, DPM, celotex, 75mm liquid screed with wet UFH within. After hearing many horrors about joints popping and bulging due to 'hot spots' caused by sun through glass I am now paranoid of this happening as we have UFH and 2 big glass doors in an open plan room approx 50m2. I feel the only safe bet is to go for porcelain tiles or something solid but my budget wants laminate or vinyl tiles. I have asked advice at places like Howdens, tile giant, flooring co etc but seem to only get sales pitches in response. Ideally one of you will have seen a similar scenario and can reassure me that some form of or luxury vinyl will be OK (with a good fitter of course). Any help appreciated, thanks.
I’d avoid laminate and use any of the others, it’s more important the right adhesives and fitters are used to install them tbf
If they are south facing I don’t think any LVT floors will stand up to the heat. They tend to discolour and gap. Better off with ceramic/porcelain/stone. Or a strong spc like impervia. Quickstep laminate is pretty tough. I’ve not seen any discolour from UV light.
We put impervia in a south west facing conservatory. It’s like a oven with a lot of direct sunlight. It’s doing well and been through a hot summer. The original Amtico spacia had completely discoloured. First we used a standard spc and that buckled from the heat. Luckily for my customer they were a decent manufacturer and replaced it as they expected it to be ok. Stay away from moduleo…from experience they will disregard any failure of their floor due to natural light. I’m sure there are a lot more out there that will do that too.
Fully vitrified porcelain is the way to go I wouldn’t be confident in anything else not having problems and I would use ditra matting below the tile Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk
