The vinyl flooring brands we carry

What each brand actually carries: its formats, its series where it runs them, its colour count and its grade. The order is the ladder above, not a ranking, and one range prints no wear layer figure at all and is listed here saying so. Between them they run more colours than anyone can usefully choose from on a screen, and that is not the argument: a wall of samples is a shop, and choosing from a wall is not a specification.

The thinnest wear layer of anything we carry, and the tier a cheap quotation usually lives on. Twenty three colours on a single plank format, codes SP7521 through SP8788, named rather than numbered. We specify it where it belongs, which is bedrooms, studies and a rental unit being turned around, and we say so rather than dress it up as something it is not.

The standard line, and the only brand on this page that is Singaporean. Launched in 2013. Built as a UV coating over the wear layer, then a decorative paper, a vinyl core and a rigid backing, with codes running STEP 02 to STEP 33. For some buyers a local brand matters when a question has to be answered three years after handover, and that is a fair reason to choose it.

The second line from the same brand, made in Korea, codes KR 31 to KR 44. Identical grade to the standard line, identical plank, identical thickness, and a different set of decors. So choosing between the two is an aesthetic decision and nothing else, which is worth knowing before anyone quotes one to you as an upgrade on the other.

Made in Malaysia, click lock, and the widest choice of shapes on the shelf: a normal lay plank, a large marble and terrazzo tile, and a herringbone block. It is one of only two ranges here that gives us herringbone, which is why the pattern has its own note further down.

The largest single collection we carry, thirty colours organised as three named series rather than as one block of codes, with a herringbone format offered within the collection. Two things make it genuinely different rather than differently packaged. Its build carries a mesh fibreglass inner layer between the decorative film and the base, which is the one real construction difference across every 5mm range on this page. And it names the surface finish on each colour, which no other range here does, so you can specify how a floor feels underfoot and not only what it looks like.

Made in Korea, click lock, and the only range here that goes outdoors: alongside the plank and the tile it carries a decking line. Its catalogue prints no wear layer figure at all, so it sits off the ladder rather than on a rung it has not earned. We ask the supplier for the number in writing before we specify it, which is exactly what we tell you to do with a quotation.

The heavy traffic tier and the only 6.0mm body we carry, in two lines. This is commercial specification rather than a domestic upgrade: shops, offices, food and beverage, castor chairs, and homes the owner intends to keep. The thicker body is part of the same decision rather than an extra, because it sits flatter over a substrate that is not perfect and carries sound better than a 5.0mm plank.

The self-levelling compound we work with is ARDEX K 310, from ARDEX-QUICSEAL Singapore, certified under the Singapore Green Building Product scheme, certificate SGBP 3694. That certificate is ARDEX's, for their product. Ours is the workmanship warranty, one year from handover.