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Polyflor Expona Versailles through a club games room
A working men's club floor gets the lot: darts players planted on the oche all night, chairs dragged across it, drinks spilled and a full room at the weekend. Carpet holds all of that. Polyflor Expona Versailles is a glue-down luxury vinyl tile (LVT) printed with a classic Versailles parquet pattern, so the room gets the look of a traditional timber floor that suits its panelled walls, with a surface that mops clean.
The job started with the old carpet. It was cut out and the backing and adhesive stripped off the base with a floor stripper. What was left was ground back and smoothed so the new tiles had a flat, sound surface to sit on. Thin LVT shows every lump underneath it, so this stage decides how the finished floor looks.
A Versailles pattern only works if it is set out properly. The tiles are dry-laid from the centre of the room so the pattern runs square to the walls and the cuts fall evenly at the edges, round the raised seating and along the bar. The adhesive is spread with a notched trowel and each tile is laid to the line and rolled.
The result is one continuous patterned floor from the bar to the darts boards, with the oche marked in the floor and the snooker table back in place for the next frame.
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.
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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.