Bring the premium flooring touch to housing developments

Paul Webb explains how Unilin Flooring’s Quick-Step and Moduleo floors can achieve a uniquely tailored flooring specification for private housing developments of all types.

Other than solving the UK’s housing supply issues, the chief objective of any new private housing development is to be a desirable proposition for tenants or purchasers and the floor has a role to play in this. Not only by contributing to a stylish and modern interior design for the budget, but also in a promise of a floor that will offer a lasting and easy to look after proposition for tenants or purchasers.

Through our wood, vinyl and laminate floors under the Quick-Step and Moduleo brands, we can provide developers with options that offer premium aesthetics at a range of price points.

Importantly, all of these options also ensure that occupiers also gain from a lasting and easy to maintain floor.

Quick-Step is regarded as one of the world’s leading residential flooring brands and is recognised for its quality, innovation and refinement. With the introduction of the world’s first waterproof wood floors, it is also able to promise waterproof flooring options across wood, vinyl and laminate – a major attraction for purchasers. Combined with refined details that elevate the design integrity of vinyl and laminate and Wood for Life that makes natural wood an easier living proposition, the brand is an excellent premium option for higher value residential developments.

Our Moduleo design floors are proven in a wide range of new housing developments including prestigious BTR complexes such as Manchester’s Circle Square. They provide developers with a unique collection of luxury vinyl floors that excel in design capability. With a wide array of wood, stone and concrete designs of various sizes, as well as herringbone, feature strips and the unique patterns of Moduleo Moods; it is arguably the most design-focused vinyl flooring range on offer today. With PUR reinforcement for improved scratch and stain resistance and easier maintenance, Moduleo floors are also a durable and easy to look after option.

Moduleo’s dry back installation can also be enhanced with our Flex Pro Pure self-adhesive underlay. This cuts down on subfloor preparation and eliminates glue entirely from installation without compromising the ongoing integrity of the floor. Our UK implementation of the Recover take-back programme can also help developers to reduce installation waste, finding new life for Moduleo and Quick-Step vinyl flooring offcuts as street furniture.

In terms of reducing the environmental impact of our floors, Both Quick-Step and Moduleo vinyl floors are made with at least 21% pre-consumer recycled content, verified by third-party certification body SCS Global Services1 . Quick-Step wood and laminate floors also use 100% recovered wood for the core. This is wood from sawmills, sustainable forest management and roadside maintenance that would otherwise be burned or discarded. There are third-party verified EPDs for all product categories for developers to verify the environmental impact of products being specified.

With a UK stock holding of over 1.3million square meters of flooring, we’re also more than capable of working with developers and installers to establish a reliable supply chain that will work to construction schedules and phases.
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Paul Webb is national sales manager specification at Unilin

1. Unilin dryback and engineered vinyl floors were tested by SCS Global Services in accordance with SCS Recycled Content Standard V8-0. Certification is available on request.
2. Unilin is third-party EPD certified in all flooring categories as per ISO 14025 and EN 15804+A2: Direct Pressure Laminate floor coverings Unilin BV, division flooring EPD-UNI-20230480-IBC1-EN