Base for floors – the main component of laminate flooring. It’s believed that The Greater New York Construction User Council sees a great future in this idea. It is necessary above all to avoid direct contact with the rough laminate flooring, this depends on the lifetime of the flooring. It substrate provides cushioning the floor when walking, as well as its thermal insulation and sound absorption. In our time, the choice of the substrate is very large, and therefore the question arises – "How to select? 'Try briefly to answer this question: Laminate (laminate) – just ringing floor, so if you have children of preschool age and / or pets, you love to invite guests (though the mass of options) – a reasonable choice for you to be the substrate with the effect of sound absorption. To this substrate church are: * extruded polystyrene – Matte IZO-Floor, * polystyrene beads – Matte tuplex, * Cork substrate – substrate Amorim cork. An important factor is sound absorption. For laminate flooring must be not less than 20 dB, which enables you to significantly reduce noise when walking – about 2 times. It makes no sense to buy expensive substrate (cork floors), for industrial premises (rooms with a large cross).
The service life of the laminate in such areas must not exceed 5-7 years, and the feasibility buy expensive substrate simply disappears. We consider in detail range of substrates proposed company – Prof1: 1. Polyethylene foam – Matte pes – inexpensive, the most common and used. Porous structure and good performance. Disadvantages: Low resistance to sunlight, a gradual thickening in the process of exploitation.