What is your opinion on the potential risks associated with vinyl flooring? For example, concerns about plasticizers and similar substances. We were planning to install this type of flooring in the bedroom and children's room as well. When researching online, there are a wide variety of opinions. Especially consumer tests by organizations like Ökotest don’t give these flooring types a good rating. Isn’t parquet flooring also treated with chemicals during its manufacturing process? What about cork? How do you assess the risks from your perspective, and what would be a "healthier" alternative, if any?
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hemali20034 Jun 2018 13:34BenutzerPC schrieb:
What brand was that?Classen Neo 2.0. We have filed a complaint now; maybe it’s a manufacturing defect? But I rather think these negative qualities result precisely from the absence of those substances...B
BenutzerPC4 Jun 2018 17:37Does anyone know the company KWG or whether their quality is satisfactory? Or the company Espenmüller, which apparently has products manufactured by KWG under its own name?
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Mastermind14 Jun 2018 18:06I would go to a specialized timber dealer or a carpenter who installs flooring. The installation of parquet should be done by professionals...
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BenutzerPC4 Jun 2018 22:03Mastermind1 schrieb:
I would go to a specialized timber supplier or to a carpenter who installs it. The laying of parquet flooring should be done by professionals.... Yes, of course. That’s not the issue. The selection takes place in a specialist store. No DIY store products.
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Hausbauer17 Jun 2018 19:58I think vinyl has many advantages. And I believe this eco-myth just as little as many others.
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boxandroof22 Jun 2018 10:41BenutzerPC schrieb:
Perhaps a "healthier" alternative?After reading the Öko-Test, we looked into this further..
The so-called "design floors" usually carry the Blue Angel ecolabel and have similar properties to vinyl. Meister and Wineo will soon offer vinyl with the Blue Angel ecolabel for glue-down installation. This would be more durable than floating design floors and better suited for underfloor heating.
Whether and how unhealthy vinyl is remains controversial, as you have noticed. There are limits set for emissions, but the testing methods seem to favor manufacturers (e.g., high air exchange rates, and I believe seams may also be glued). My personal conclusion: in real life, these limits are often exceeded.
It’s also important to consider in what form backing materials, adhesives, and other synthetic or treated floor coverings or impact sound insulation might be harmful.
We installed glued-down vinyl on the ground floor and a floating design floor with very low thermal resistance in the upper floor/bedrooms. Ideally, I would have chosen glued vinyl with the Blue Angel ecolabel throughout, but it was not yet available.
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