LION Floor is the affordable way to a subfloor ready for a high quality vinyl floor installation, says the company.

‘When it comes to delivering a high quality vinyl floor installation, ensuring a perfectly prepared subfloor is key. Without it, installers risk a subpar installation that may cause trouble down the line. However, ensuring a perfectly smooth and level subfloor ready for sheet vinyl and luxury vinyl floors can be time intensive, costly and not without its own difficulties.

‘However, with LION Floor, you can achieve a subfloor ready for vinyl flooring that’s smooth, level and reliable time after time. LION Floor is hardboard that’s been specifically designed as a rigid flooring underlay for use beneath vinyl flooring. Compatible with feather finishes and adhesives from major manufacturers and installed in the same way as regular plywood, it’s the fast and dependable way to a high quality vinyl floor installation.’

Continues the company, ‘The boards are available in a range of sizes for domestic and commercial use and are made in Finland using by-products from local wood processing industries, making LION Floor a sustainable choice too. With a GWP (global warming potential) of -1,771kg CO2e – significantly less than other European particleboard and plywood* – LION Floor actually locks in more carbon than is used to produce it.’

Peter Jones of Finnish Fibreboard says: ‘Installers need to trust their choices and so tend to stick to what they know, however for those that use plywood for their resilient flooring installations, there is a better alternative out there. The engineered construction of LION Board eliminates the core gaps and veneer overlaps that can sometimes appear in plywood. This makes for a more reliable choice that can be used without any changes to the way installers work.’

Continues the company, ‘With LION Floor, there’s no pre-wetting, no specialist tools or machinery or any adaptations needed to the methods used to smooth out joints and screw holes. Installers can just make the switch to LION Floor from their usual plywood without any worries. It’s also compliant BS 8203:2017 and is approved by the CFA. What’s more, LION Floor is more cost-effective than plywood too.’

Concludes the company, ‘LION Floor is oil-tempered for better protection against moisture, withstands higher point loads than plywood boards and is pre-conditioned so no wetting is needed before installation. As well as a range of standard sizes, LION Floor is available in large sheets for bigger areas (up to 10ft x 4ft).’
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For every cubic metre of LION Boards produced (weighing 980kg), the Global Warming Potential (GWP) of LION Floor’s lifecycle is -1,771kgCO2, significantly less than European made particleboard at -618kgCO2 or European made plywood at -888kgCO2. Reported figures exclude transport and installation, product use and maintenance and product end of life. For more details, https://manage.epdhub.com/