If you want to find unpretentious care, but an attractive exterior flooring, you should pay attention to PVC linoleum. Today, this material is used very widely due to its low price, as well as high technical properties.
As you can see from the name, polyvinyl chloride is used to make such a linoleum. In addition, the composition of this floor covering includes fillers, plasticizers and pigments. Linoleum can be without a base or have a base in the form of a fabric or a heat-insulating layer.
In addition, linoleum polyvinyl chloride can be heterogeneous or multilayered, as well as homogeneous or monolayer. In the first case, the coating consists of several layers, the top of which is a transparent protective fiberglass. Then comes the painted decorative with a pattern or pigments, and the lower layer has a foamed reinforcing base. The strength of heterogeneous linoleum depends on the thickness of the protective PVC film. This coating has a fairly high cost, but thanks to a wide selection of designs, PVC linoleum based on fiberglass is very popular in residential areas.
Homogeneous PVC linoleum is manufactured by rolling on the press. In such a coating, a simple pattern of marble or in the form of granules is located throughout the thickness of the layer. Due to this homogeneous linoleum has a special strength and elasticity, as well as excellent abrasion ability. Therefore, this coating is used in rooms with high traffic.
Technical characteristics of PVC linoleum
When choosing a linoleum, you should pay attention to its technical characteristics:
- thickness - the more it is, the material has better heat and sound insulation properties;
- mass - the higher it is, the higher the density of linoleum, and therefore its operational properties are better;
- linoleum - a material that does not support combustion;
- wear resistance class is a very important mechanical characteristic of linoleum. There are several classes from 21 to 43;
- Important indicators of the quality of linoleum are its light fastness and thermal conductivity.
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