Wood decor of vinyl and SPC floors from the new KPP HOME XL collection will make even experts kneel

Even an expert would have to kneel down to touch the floor and find out what material it is. The new collection of vinyl and mineral SPC flooring KPP HOME XL with Synchrostructure finish offers strikingly realistic wood decors. Five wood decors in one-and-a-half-meter formats and another five in the smaller dimension collection KPP HOME are presented under the own brand of the company Kratochvíl parket profi.

“In the KPP HOME XL collection, there are decors with real wood structure, which, when laid flat, even an expert cannot tell what type of flooring it is, and will have to kneel down and touch it. The surface really is very similar to wood,” praises the perfect decor with the special Synchrostructure finish, i.e., the real structure of natural material, Milan Mrkáček, sales director of KPP.

The creators of the names for the individual decors this time fished among geographical names, so at home you can evoke an Arctic winter with the decor Arctic Oak Light Grey, which is naturally in a grayish-white shade, or a warmer to desert climate with the decor Sahara Oak Brown or Gobi Desert Oak Grey. The large temperature range between the names of the decors certainly does not replicate the character of oak floors, all of which have a decent "middle" in terms of wood pattern.

SPC floors have more benefits than vinyls

The company Kratochvíl parket profi, which manufactures flooring in Germany under its KPP brand, traditionally offers one decor always in three versions – classic glued vinyl in panels (thickness 2 mm), click vinyl on HDF board (thickness 9 mm, with soundproofing underlay), and click-installed SPC flooring (thickness 4.5 mm, also with soundproofing underlay). The reason why it is a current trend to produce one decor in various materials and why it is precisely a combination of vinyl and SPC flooring is explained by Milan Mrkáček from KPP: “At first glance, you cannot distinguish the decor of these floorings, so if a customer chooses SPC flooring to be installed in a floating manner but also wants to cover stairs with the same decor, where the flooring must always be fully glued, they will combine SPC flooring with glued vinyl in the same decor and will not notice the difference.”

SPC floorings installed in a floating manner are replacing the click version of vinyls, as the new mineral floorings offer many advantages over vinyls. The main benefit of SPC floors over vinyls is dimensional stability. “Because the basic element for the production of SPC floors is minerals, i.e., crushed stone, SPC flooring is significantly more dimensionally stable and does not have the same thermal expansion as vinyl panels. And the second significant benefit lies in the fact that the mineral flooring is less sensitive to the quality of the subfloor. For vinyls, you need an absolutely flat surface, in fact, to lay it on a mirror, because even a slight unevenness in the subfloor, a crack in the screed, or slight waviness, which may still meet the standard for flatness of the subfloor, will be visible on the vinyl, it will show through into the flooring. In contrast, with SPC floorings, since the core of the floor is solid and hard, such unevenness will not show through,” adds Milan Mrkáček from KPP.

You can view the new collection in the KPP showrooms in Prague and Brno or take advantage of a virtual tour.

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