UNDERLAY & ACOUSTIC SOLUTIONS A SOUND CHOICE
Forbo’s Allura Decibel LVT is helping Broadland Housing Association create quieter, more comfortable homes, combining 19dB impact sound reduction with practical installation benefits.
As part of Broadland Housing Association’s commitment to maintaining its housing stock, the association’s Planned Works Team is undertaking an extensive programme of kitchen and bathroom refurbishments. To support these upgrades, Broadland has turned to Forbo Flooring Systems’ Allura Decibel LVT collection – flooring that not only enhances a resident’s home but also brings practical benefits to the site teams.
Formed in 1963, today Broadland Housing Association provides over 5,000 quality homes across Norfolk and north Suffolk, including family homes and modern apartments through to sheltered housing.
Tasked with maintaining and refurbishing the properties, ensuring tenants are provided with a safe, welcoming and high- quality home, is the Planned Works Team. Chris Boyd, Planned Works Manager at Broadland Housing Association, said: “I’m responsible for managing some of our kitchen and bathroom refurb programmes – we oversee a skilled team of bathroom and kitchen fitters, electricians, and occasionally flooring contractors who carry out the work on site.
“We’re currently working on a number of homes across Norfolk and parts of Suffolk, retrofitting new kitchens and flooring. As an association, we use Forbo’s range of flooring solutions across all properties – including both refurbishments and new builds. This comes on the back of recommendations from Tim Linghorn, National Housebuilder Manager at Forbo, with whom we have a strong working relationship.”
With Broadland HA currently in the process of switching from sheet vinyl flooring solutions to luxury vinyl tiles (LVT), predominantly for health and safety reasons, Forbo’s Allura collection has played a valuable supporting role. Chris explained: “As a result of the association’s comprehensive housing portfolio, we work across a
variety of properties, including large apartment blocks. In these settings, carrying large rolls of vinyl up and down stairs can present a significant health and safety risk for our teams, whereas LVT is far easier to handle thanks to its modular format.
“Another added benefit is that there is often reduced waste with LVT products, with any left-over planks able to be simply returned to our depot, ready for use on the next job. In comparison, vinyl installation offcuts would generally end up being sent to landfill or excess material lost under units.”
Specifically, Forbo’s Allura Decibel range has been specified across the latest refurbishments, with the floorcovering combining beautiful floor design and best-in-class impact sound reduction with excellent functionality, including enhanced indentation performance and a PUR wear layer to stand up to everyday scratches and scuffs. The 19dB sound reduction is achieved in the one product, as opposed to requiring a separate acoustic underlay. The tackified installation method makes it quick and easy to fit, as well as enabling individual planks and tiles to be uplifted and replaced in the case of damage.
Chris concluded: “There’s so much to like when it comes to Allura Decibel. From an aesthetic point of view, it’s a great looking floorcovering, as well as being easy to handle and install for our site teams. The acoustic performance is especially advantageous when you consider the residential application. Bathrooms and kitchens in particular are probably some of the busiest spaces within a home. With 19dB sound reduction, it prevents impact sound from travelling through the suspended floor to the property beneath, ensuring that we are creating peaceful and welcoming spaces for all our tenants.”
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