Hotels
Hotels are two specifications, not one. Guest rooms and corridors wear differently, and the lobby sees the grit that every other floor is spared.
Recommended wear layer 0.5 mm — Light commercial
Applications
The sector decides the specification.
The same decor can be the right floor in a guest room and the wrong one in a mall entrance. These pages set out what we actually specify for each sector, and why.
Schools
Schools combine the heaviest traffic class with the strictest emissions questions. Both are answerable in writing.
Recommended wear layer 0.7 mm — Heavy commercial
Offices
An air-conditioned office is the one commercial setting where laminate is still the right answer on price — until castors and a wet core entrance change the sum.
Recommended wear layer 0.5 mm — Light commercial
Retail & shopping malls
Retail floors are judged on how they look in year five, under lighting designed to show every scuff.
Recommended wear layer 0.7 mm — Heavy commercial
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Healthcare, gyms, airports and residential developments are all supplied from the same two product lines. Tell us the traffic and the moisture, and we will tell you the specification.