flooring

Sheet vinyl floors from IVC Commercial provide social housing with a flooring option that’s suitable for more than just bathrooms and kitchens.

A growing number of social housing providers are stepping beyond regulation to consider the positive impact of providing suitable floor coverings throughout the home. With measurable positive impact on tenants, the move towards provision above current standards suggests a new way of thinking about social housing that places greater emphasis on wellbeing.

With the recent announcement that the revised Decent Homes Standard for England will not mandate floor coverings in all rooms of social housing, Beauflor asks whether the provision of flooring for tenants should really be a postcode lottery.

While some forward-thinking social housing providers in England are including floor coverings throughout the homes they let, many others are still stripping out the attempts of previous tenants to improve the standard of their home and welcoming new tenants with bare floors. Unsurprisingly, these bare floors put tenants under financial strain to put right, or they are simply left living and sleeping in a home that has a negative impact on their well-being. 

IVC Commercial’s affordable flooring solutions for public areas in social housing deliver durability and homely design.

With its Pionieer 70 and Isafe 70 dedicated flooring solutions for public areas in social housing, IVC Commercial helps providers to achieve a high-quality floor that upholds value requirements. The floors prioritise durability, safety and ease of maintenance across a range of welcoming residential designs. 

With the Zenura collection of sheet vinyl, IVC Commercial can respond to the need for cost-effective floors that enhance the lives of people living in social housing.

With growing focus on social housing providing a good standard of accommodation or tenants, providers are considering flooring outside of the regulatory requirement for its use in bathrooms and kitchens. The consensus is that providing suitable flooring in all areas of the home positively impacts the physical and mental wellbeing of tenants, but concerns still exist as to the cost, ongoing maintenance and refurbishment of floors. 

Contractors and providers can now find IVC Commercial’s dedicated housing floors on a new website, ivc-floorsforhousing.co.uk, making it easy to find affordable sheet vinyl floors for living areas and public use.

Featuring its dedicated social and affordable housing ranges for private areas in Zenura Style, Zenura Luxe, Zenura Ultimate and Zenura Elegance LVS, as well as the Isafe 70 and Pioneer 70 heavy-duty ranges; the website gives instant access to high-quality sheet vinyl flooring made in Europe. Users can also see the benefits of using sheet vinyl in social and affordable housing, and how it can help to raise the standard of housing provision. 

Today’s social housing providers are focused on the need to deliver tenants a good standard of housing and with floor coverings proven to be beneficial to the well-being of tenants, ensuring adequate coverings in all rooms can contribute to that focus. However, with concerns over cost and health and safety worries from poor quality coverings, many tenants still endure moving into properties without floor coverings in rooms where they are not required by relevant standards, facing living in poor conditions or taking on debt to improve their home. The impact on well-being is significant, as one social housing tenant reveals:

Setcrete Latex self-smoothing floor levelling compound has been used to create a smooth and level surface to optimise the appearance of a Luxury Vinyl Tile (LVT) installation in a kitchen/dining area refurbishment at a residential property in Chesterfield.