Floors that work…
Utility and Laundry Rooms
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tility rooms and laundry rooms tend to take the brunt of our daily living. Luxury vinyl resilient flooring is very versatile. It can go anywhere in your home and easily installs above and below grade. In addition, luxury vinyl flooring is not only visually pleasing but also boasts of technological breakthroughs. Current fabrications of vinyl resilient floorings have protective top coatings that resist scratching and scuffing, so your floor maintains its like-new look with routine sweeping and damp mopping. Gone are the stripping and waxing of the resilients of yesteryear. These invisible coatings protect the beauty of your resilient vinyl tile, plank, and sheet vinyl flooring and make clean-up quick and simple. Utility rooms and laundry rooms are best when their design follows function. The flooring in these rooms has to be durable, easy to care for and coordinated with the adjacent flooring. A utility room is generally a catch-all for necessary household items that do not belong out in the open. For example, it can hold mops, pails, ladders, commercial shelving, rolling carts, a washer and dryer, trash cans, a work table, and sink, or other things that are needed but shouldn’t be on display. Storage rooms can be dry. Some hold decorations, luggage, clothing, boxes, etc. They can also be wet, serving as a root cellar, pet food central, buying club-sized packages of paper towels, pantry items, etc. The flooring in laundry utility and storage rooms need to be easy to clean, stain and scuff resistant, waterproof, and should provide an excellent barrier to block dampness and insects. Often, these spaces have an in-floor drain that the floor must accommodate. ■ At left: NovaFloor’s Serenbe Canadian Walnut Digby from Novalis. Above: Miramar Mist luxury sheet vinyl from Mannington
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