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The wearlayer is critical to the performance of a vinyl floor. The thickness of the wearlayer varies with each resilient collection, or series and is generally measured in mils. The thickness of a mil is about the same as a page in your telephone book. So a 10 mil wearlayer would be comparable in thickness to about 10 pages in your telephone book. Generally the more expensive vinyl floors have thicker wearlayers. Your expectations for how long your vinyl floor will look new and fresh are based on the wearlayer's performance. To help you understand wearlayer construction we need to define what the performance characteristics are we are looking for in a vinyl floor. These performance characteristics can be broken into several key areas:

bulletEasy to clean
bulletStays looking like-new
bulletResists staining from normal household products
bulletDoesn't show scratches easily
bulletEasy to cleanup spills

The easy to clean relates to how tough it is to remove soiling and other marks from a floor's surface. When a floor begins to look old and drabby it is usually caused by hundreds of fine hair-line scratches in the wearlayer. The fine scratches come from dirt, girt, and sand laying on the wearlayer's surface. Another problem low-end floors and older vinyl floors have is staining of the wearlayer, which can happen from asphalt driveway sealers, Kool-Aid, plant food, marking pens, etc...

Mannington's Natureform® Collections has all the ingredients to resist showing wear and staining far better than any other vinyl floor made today. These floors use the advanced technology developed exclusively by Mannington and will give you a rich looking floor that will out perform any other residential vinyl floor you could buy for home! Mannington's revolutionary NatureFrom® process has won them the flooring industry's top awards for product and designs

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