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You're correct. The Better has a 12mil wearlayer vs the Best with a 20. Their wearlayer is a good wearlayer. It's a modified urethane with an diamond dust additive (thus the "Diamond 10" branding). The only thing that's a bit concerning is that the overall thickness of the product is .080" so it will require that your floor prep is done well to make sure nothing telegraphs through. To give a comparison, most sheet vinyl products are .080". However, for your application this product should perform well and give you a nice floor for several year. It is more common to use glue down in commercial applications vs. floating but that's only because floating doesn't lend itself to commercial traffic. Specifically, rolling traffic can cause the floor to become unlocked or simply damage the locking mechanism all together. The floating products today are not the same ones of just a few years past. The SPC and WPC rigid bodies on these products are huge improvement over the first generation that was extremely susceptible to thermal expansion and contraction. These older products were very susceptible to direct sunlight and would expand and buckle. Many weren't built heavy enough and would become unlocked or damaged from normal household traffic. Bottom line is they just weren't made well. These newer products are much more rigid and are very similar to a laminate floor with added bonus of not having a "wood" component that could swell when things were spilled or a leak occurred. They have their place and many perform very similarly to laminate floors which are a good product in their own right.However, at the end of the day, if it's my house and I want a "tried and true" installation system then I'm putting in glue down.
You're correct. The Better has a 12mil wearlayer vs the Best with a 20. Their wearlayer is a good wearlayer. It's a modified urethane with an diamond dust additive (thus the "Diamond 10" branding).
The only thing that's a bit concerning is that the overall thickness of the product is .080" so it will require that your floor prep is done well to make sure nothing telegraphs through. To give a comparison, most sheet vinyl products are .080". However, for your application this product should perform well and give you a nice floor for several year.
It is more common to use glue down in commercial applications vs. floating but that's only because floating doesn't lend itself to commercial traffic. Specifically, rolling traffic can cause the floor to become unlocked or simply damage the locking mechanism all together. The floating products today are not the same ones of just a few years past. The SPC and WPC rigid bodies on these products are huge improvement over the first generation that was extremely susceptible to thermal expansion and contraction. These older products were very susceptible to direct sunlight and would expand and buckle. Many weren't built heavy enough and would become unlocked or damaged from normal household traffic. Bottom line is they just weren't made well. These newer products are much more rigid and are very similar to a laminate floor with added bonus of not having a "wood" component that could swell when things were spilled or a leak occurred. They have their place and many perform very similarly to laminate floors which are a good product in their own right.
However, at the end of the day, if it's my house and I want a "tried and true" installation system then I'm putting in glue down.
