Floors · 01
Sheet vinyl for wards, clinics and corridors.
Vinyl that comes in wide rolls, is glued down and has its joins heat-welded, so the whole floor is sealed and easy to keep clean.
- Best for
- Hospitals, clinics, schools, laboratories, kitchens
- How it's laid
- Glued down, seams heat-welded
- What we feature
- Gerflor 2 mm sheet, the same colour all the way through
- Looking after it
- Easy to clean
What it is
Sheet vinyl comes off a roll about two metres wide. It's glued to a flat, dry base. Where two widths meet, the seam is grooved and filled with a melted vinyl rod in a matching colour, which sets flush with the floor.
The result is one continuous surface. There are no grout lines and no gaps, so there's nowhere for dirt, water or germs to settle. That's why it's the standard floor in hospital wards and school corridors.
Where it suits
- Hospital wards and corridors
- Clinics and laboratories
- Classrooms, school corridors and laboratories
- Kitchens, laundries and other wet areas, with a coved edge
- Shops and offices that want a floor that cleans quickly
How sheet vinyl is laid
- The base has to be sound, clean, flat and dry.
- Screed or self-levelling compound evens out dips and ridges.
- The rolls rest in the room so they settle to its temperature. Gerflor's guideline is 24 hours.
- The sheet is glued down and rolled so it bonds evenly.
- The seams are grooved and heat-welded with a matching rod.
- Where it's specified, the sheet can be formed up the wall as a coved skirting.
From Gerflor's installation guidelines for homogeneous sheet.
The welded seam, up close
A weld rod melted into the joint and trimmed flush. Done well, you have to look for it.
Gerflor sheets we supply and install
Gerflor Mipolam Troplan Plus
2 mm · homogeneous · 18 coloursA marbled, directional design. Gerflor states that its Evercare surface resists chemical stains and is antibacterial and antiviral, tested to ISO 22196 and ISO 21702.
Gerflor Mipolam Atlas
2 mm · homogeneous · plain coloursA plain, non-directional sheet for heavy traffic, with Gerflor's Easycare surface treatment. Ask us which colours we can order for your job.
Product descriptions and test results are Gerflor's. Gerflor's catalogues for both are on our Floors page.
Questions
How soon can we walk on it?
Can it go up the wall?
Is it only for hospitals?
Can you price against our specification?
Tell us about the floor. We'll come back with a plan.
Which rooms, roughly how big, what's on the floor now. Photos help. We reply within 24 hours.