Luxury vinyl flooring and ceramic tile: a comparison
When you shop for tile floors at All Pro Floors in Arlington, TX, you can pick:
● Ceramic or porcelain - durable clay-based materials; denser and harder porcelain is superior and the toughest tile material on the market.
● Luxury vinyl flooring - a multiple-layer material that features a transparent surface coating or wear layer covering the high-tech stone, ceramic, wood, or concrete image layer.
● Laminate - a multiple-layer material always warm underfoot because the core is made of fiberboard.
Luxury vinyl
Luxury vinyl flooring is the only manufactured floor covering 100 percent waterproof, making it ideal for water-prone spaces like bathrooms. In addition, stain and scratch-resistant luxury vinyl require no maintenance beyond routine sweeping and mopping.
Textured tiles, created with embossing techniques, are most authentic since they look and feel like the flooring materials they mimic.
Ceramic and porcelain
Naturally waterproof porcelain tile is available in many shapes, sizes, and designs that look like wood and stones, such as marble and granite. Luxury vinyl flooring also has these looks.
Ceramic tile tends to be solid in color or simple in design. Ceramics are made of coarse clay, while porcelain, a specialized type of ceramic, is made of fine kaolin clay that is hardened in a kiln at a higher temperature than ceramic clay.
Installation
All Pro Floors carry glue-down, floating floor, and loose-lay LVT and LVP flooring styles. Click and lock floating floor tiles need no attachment to the surface beneath them so that they can be laid over any subfloor or hard surface floor.
Loose lay tiles butt together to create a semi-permanent floor covering that can be removed and reused, and ceramic tiles are kept in place with mortar.
The premier flooring store in the Dallas-Fort Worth area
Family-owned All Pro Floors installs ceramic, porcelain, luxury vinyl flooring, and more. We bring our flooring products and services to the Dallas-Fort Worth area, including Arlington and Mansfield. Please stop by our customer-friendly showroom today to shop for vinyl flooring in Arlington, TX.
