Reviewing Vinyl Flooring Manufacturers? Learn Why Salt Makes Vinyl Both Sustainable and Affordable
The Not-So-Secret Ingredient Vinyl Flooring Manufacturers Use to Keep your Building Project Sustainable and Affordable
Luxury vinyl tile and plank flooring is becoming increasingly popular. Not only are these flooring options diverse in color, pattern and design, but the very materials that vinyl flooring manufacturers use make it both sustainable and affordable. Luxury vinyl tile (LVT) makes up almost half of the hard surface market, notes Floor Focus Magazine.
“Its high performance and low maintenance is in demand for utilitarian applications,
and its design capabilities, including high resolution visuals and realistic texturing, are
not only bringing style to functional spaces but they are also helping LVT gain a foothold
in commercial applications that are generally more fashion forward, like retail,
hospitality and even corporate.” —Floor Focus Magazine
In addition to these obvious benefits, luxury vinyl flooring has some less obvious but just as significant benefits: sustainability and affordability. Salt — yes, common table salt — is the key to the sustainable and affordable nature of vinyl flooring. Using this everyday and easily-sourced material means that vinyl flooring manufacturers are able to maintain a commitment to environmental responsibility while also giving their customers affordable pricing.
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Sustainable
The primary ingredient of our luxury vinyl flooring is a solution of common salt and water. Vinyl is less sensitive to fluctuations in the world oil market than totally dependent polymers, and uses far fewer BTUs to produce a stable finished product, which helps conserve energy and other natural resources. Stone tiles are sourced from quarries with a finite amount of material, and wood planks are sourced from forests around the world, cut down at a faster rate than they can be replenished. Our flooring takes its aesthetic cues from the natural world while treating it with respect.
We call salt our “not-so-secret-ingredient” because, although it’s a significant part of how we make our luxury vinyl tiles and planks, it’s also something we’d be happy to see more people using as an alternative to harvesting limited and fast-depleting natural resources.
Using vinyl flooring manufacturers may also qualify your project for LEED points. Oftentimes, doing the sustainably right thing means spending more money or compromising on the amount of options available, but salt takes away this conundrum for vinyl flooring manufacturers.
Affordable
Cost savings is always a welcome flavor to add to the palette of your redesign. Because the ingredients are easy to find and manufacture, we can make our flooring tiles and planks very economically — and pass these savings along to our customers. Because of the ingredients used in the manufacturing, vinyl is less susceptible to price fluctuations than other totally oil-dependent polymer materials.
Vinyl flooring manufacturers like us are able to reuse scraps that may be thrown away as waste with other flooring materials, reusing and recycling smaller pieces into new flooring material. In fact, Parterre flooring products are comprised of recycled materials and are 100% recyclable.
The affordability up-front is not the only way you save on luxury vinyl flooring, however. The durability and long life will also save you money over the long haul. Remember, “salty” is just another way of saying “tough,” and our flooring consistently outlives its warranty, something many other flooring companies cannot claim.
We are a very proud luxury vinyl flooring manufacturer, and we’d love to add a dash of green and a pinch of savings to your next project. Check out our inspiration section if you want to get your creative juices flowing, or drop us a note and we’ll connect you with a representative in your area who can exceed your expectations and create stylish spaces in a sustainable and affordable way.