Beauflor sheet vinyl flooring ensures that social housing providers can improve the standard of housing while meeting quality and value objectives.
Today’s social housing providers are focused on the need to deliver tenants a good standard of housing and with floor coverings proven to be beneficial to the well-being of tenants, ensuring adequate coverings in all rooms can contribute to that focus. However, with concerns over cost and health and safety worries from poor quality coverings, many tenants still endure moving into properties without floor coverings in rooms where they are not required by relevant standards, facing living in poor conditions or taking on debt to improve their home. The impact on well-being is significant, as one social housing tenant reveals:
“I have repaired every room including the stairs. I have filled in, sanded, removed dangers and scraped what I can… and covered over what I can’t. I am forever grateful for our home, but I was shocked at the lack of basic necessity and safety when it came to the floors. I am too embarrassed to let visitors in or let the children have playmates to socialise. The stress affects us all. Especially when I see them hurt themselves and I have to tell them not to walk certain areas in each room.”[1]
There is an answer for providers looking to improve the quality of homes: affordable sheet vinyl flooring from Beauflor. Sheet vinyl flooring provides excellent value and is also easy and cost-efficient to install. It can often be fitted over existing substrates with minimal preparation time, while glue-free options further lower initial financial outlay. With a long service life, it also can often last between tenancies, while its and resilience against wear and water ingress means fewer repairs and less frequent replacement.
For tenants, the use of Beauflor sheet vinyl can be profound. Its homelike wood, tile and uni designs create a welcoming ambience, while its comfortable feel, warmth and acoustic properties help to support well-being. As it’s easy to look after with regular vacuuming and mopping, it also assists tenants in keeping it in good condition. Because it covers bare floors and is certified for low VOC emissions, it also contributes to better indoor air quality for a happier and healthier home.
Beauflor offers a wide range of sheet vinyl flooring suitable for new build and refurbishment in social housing. With options for both private and public areas, selected Beauflor sheet vinyl floors are also available with a textile backing that can eliminate glue and subfloor preparation from installation, offering further cost advantage. The clean uplift of these floors also means they are easier to remove when replacement is needed. More sustainable material choices can be made too with the Twilight collection, a floor that uses PVC (the main material in all sheet vinyl floors) derived from 100% bio-circular attributed resources. Using this material over conventional PVCmeans a 40% reduction in CO2 emissions over the floor’s production.[2]
Chris Roberts, sales director UK, says, “Our sheet vinyl floors help social housing providers to deliver good quality flooring within budget constraints. They are a great way to raise the standard of provision and ensure that homes support the well-being of tenants through homelike design, durability, comfort and ease of maintenance.”
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[1] ‘Floored Provision of appropriate flooring in social housing’, TPAS Cymru & Tai Pawb, 22 October 2020, https://www.taipawb.org/policy-influencing/floored/
[2] Third-party verification by Fishwick Environmental of a Cradle to Gate LCA in conformance with ISO 14044 and following the requirements of EN15804+A2. Beauflor does not claim full conformance with this standard as an EPD has not yet been generated or published. Comparison made by comparing the impact of bio-based PVC in Twilight against Gradle to Gate LCA calculations of generic and product-specific data sets.
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