Competent Commercial Flooring: Laminate Floors

Laminate flooring, a versatile flooring material recently developed to meet homeowners' needs, can also be used in commercial settings. As a commercial flooring, laminate flooring is highly favorable because it requires minimal maintenance and commercial-grade laminate flooring is made to withstand the heavy traffic that goes with these settings.

With a business, you may want to go with a look that will lure potential customers into your office or showroom. Thankfully, laminate flooring captures the look of many different natural floorings so you will have no problem getting the look you want. What you may have is a problem choosing which floor to pick, as there are so many! But perhaps more important than the look of the floor is its AC rating.

Laminate floors are subject to AC ratings. These ratings are aimed to determine where a particular laminate flooring is better suited to be installed in by testing the durability of the floor to various amounts of traffic.

Laminate floors are rated from AC1 to AC5. AC1-AC2 laminate floors are better suited for residential applications rather than commercial applications, while AC4-AC5 rated laminate floors are the ones you should choose when planning for laminate flooring in commercial areas. AC3 laminate floors could also be used in light commercial settings as well.

Knowing the AC rating of the laminate flooring is important because choosing a laminate floor that has a lower rating than your intended application is bound to cause problems. They may not be able to withstand the unusually high traffic that a commercial setting may bring and thereby cause the floor to scratch or even crack in the long run, which could then be bad for your business. So choose laminate floors you could work with.