A late-night venue asks a lot of a floor. It has to look warm under low light, take hundreds of feet a night, shrug off spilled drinks and still clean up for the next evening. Luxury vinyl tile (LVT) does all of that, and laid in a parquet pattern it gives the room the look of a proper timber floor without the upkeep.
Pattern work starts with setting out. Before a single tile is stuck down we find the centre lines of the room, dry-lay the pattern and adjust it so the cuts fall evenly at the walls, around the bar and at the doorways. Get that wrong and you see it in every row.
Underneath, the subfloor is prepared first: the old surface taken back, holes and joints filled, and a smoothing compound laid so the new tiles sit flat. LVT is thin and shows every lump beneath it, so this is where a good floor is made.
The finishing is what makes a venue floor safe as well as good looking. The entrance mats sit in flush brass frames so there is nothing to catch a heel, and every step edge along the raised seating is finished with a contrasting nosing so the change in level is easy to see, even with the lights down.
Send us a commercial jobThe part nobody sees once the room is back in use: the old floor up, the base put right, the new floor going down.
18 photosThe old carpet stripped out, the base smoothed, then Polyflor Expona Versailles laid through the games room, round the snooker table and into the darts area.
12 photosThe old floor lifted, the base patched and smoothed, then plank LVT laid wall to wall through the function room, around the bar and into the bay windows.
3 photosDark grey non-slip safety vinyl through the staff canteen, games area and tea point at the Oldham bus depot, welded at the seams and coved up the walls.