Vinyl Flooring Beats Wooden Floors for Easy, Quick Installations Every Time!

Vinyl flooring installs faster, costs less, and doesn’t need specialist tools, making it the smarter choice over traditional wooden floors. It wins hands down when it comes to simpler installations. Vinyl flooring is also DIY-friendly! It gives you everything you love about wooden floors without compromising on style.

Vinyl Flooring: A Stress-Free Option for Your Home

Every flooring expert knows that installing hardwood floors is hard work. You need specialist tools, extreme precision, and experience. Even the professionals take their time because they have to. There are many steps to installing hardwood floors, like acclimating the wood, prepping subfloors, laying planks, nailing or gluing boards, sanding, staining, sealing – it’s a process that can stretch over several days (or even longer, depending on the size of your space). Then there’s the dust, the noise, and the sheer amount of labour involved.

Vinyl flooring, thankfully, arrives ready to go. The planks or tiles usually have a tongue-and-groove design that clicks into place or sticks down with no fuss. This is how the two compare:

• Tools needed: With vinyl, you’ll usually only need a utility knife and tape measure. Timber installations call for power tools like saws, nail guns, and heavy-duty sanding machines.
• Timeframe: You can update a room with vinyl in a day or over a weekend. Depending on complexity, hardwood often takes several days, sometimes even weeks.
• Mess level: Vinyl goes in cleanly with minimal disruption. Wood creates dust, noise, and a fair bit of chaos.
• Subfloor demands: Most vinyl planks can be laid over existing floors with some easy preparation. Timber needs a perfectly level, moisture-tested base.

If you’re aiming for a beautiful new floor without turning your life upside down, vinyl is the easier route for installation and maintenance.

What Makes Vinyl Such a Breeze?

Today’s vinyl flooring options are built for speed and ease. Many come with integrated click-lock systems that slot together without glue or nails. They’re flexible enough to work around corners and edges but tough enough to withstand heavy foot traffic. Another bonus is that many solutions are water-resistant or fully waterproof, which means no panicking about spills or humidity. Wooden floors, unfortunately, need to be carefully maintained to avoid warping or moisture damage.

If you want to install your floors yourself, vinyl flooring is one of the most DIY-friendly options available, but there are some things to remember. If you’re handy and enjoy a good weekend project, it’s possible to do a great job.

Lean on the Laminate Experts
That said, a professional installation ensures a flawless finish and long-lasting durability, and because vinyl goes in quickly, the labour costs are far more affordable than for wooden flooring. At Laminate Floor World, we offer expert vinyl installations for a smooth, stress-free experience from start to finish.

And yes, you can still get that beautiful wood-look effect. From pale oak to dark walnut, vinyl mimics timber impressively well. Laminates are also an excellent in-between option, and we stock those, too!

Let us help you choose flooring that works for your home and budget. If you’d like to know more, why not get in touch today? We look forward to hearing from you!