# Flooring Compared

> A specification reference for rigid core vinyl flooring (SPC and WPC). Manufacturer declarations read from technical data sheets, installation instructions and warranty documents, normalized to one set of units, and published with the source of every figure.

Nothing here is tested. No product is ranked. No brand pays for inclusion. Nothing is published where two readings of a document disagree: 500 of the 590 published cells were read in two independent passes, and 90 rest on a document only one pass held and say so where they appear.

Quoting rule: carry the citation and the condition. A maximum run without its declared unit, a slip figure without its test method, or an acoustic rating without its assembly is not the fact. It is the shape of the fact with the meaning removed.

## Pages

- [Rigid core vinyl, compared on what makers declare](https://flooringcompared.com/index.md): A specification reference for SPC and WPC vinyl plank: manufacturer declarations normalized to one unit and published beside the document each came from.
- [Choosing a floor: the fields you will regret ignoring](https://flooringcompared.com/choose.md): The four things that decide whether a rigid vinyl floor still looks right in year three, and what each product declares about them.
- [Specifying a floor: thresholds, methods and assemblies](https://flooringcompared.com/spec.md): Product standards, radiant flux class, slip method, acoustic assembly and moisture limits, each with the document it came from.
- [Installation limits and warranty exclusions, side by side](https://flooringcompared.com/compare.md): Every product in this release against the nine installation limits and the exclusions its warranty names, in one unit and one table.
- [What each field means, and what it does not promise](https://flooringcompared.com/fields.md): The full field dictionary for this reference: every column, the unit it is declared in, and what goes wrong when it is read without its condition.
- [How these figures were read](https://flooringcompared.com/methodology.md): Sources, the two-pass reading rule, what normalization refuses to convert, and when a product page is allowed to open.
- [About this reference](https://flooringcompared.com/about.md): Who publishes this, why a specification reference is not a price guide, what is counted about readers, and how the figures may be reused.
- [Privacy: what this site records about you](https://flooringcompared.com/privacy.md): No accounts and no forms. What this reference records about a reader, the two analytics cookies, what leaves the browser anyway, and who receives it.
- [Notes on what the record shows](https://flooringcompared.com/notes.md): Short arguments about the specification record itself: where makers disagree, where a figure cannot be checked, and where two columns are not comparable.

## Products

- [Bruce LifeSeal Classic](https://flooringcompared.com/spc/bruce-lifeseal-classic.md): declared specification, installation limits and warranty exclusions.
- [Bruce LifeSeal Trending](https://flooringcompared.com/spc/bruce-lifeseal-trending.md): declared specification, installation limits and warranty exclusions.
- [Ambient SPC Rigid Core 7x48](https://flooringcompared.com/spc/ambient-spc-rigid-core-7x48.md): declared specification, installation limits and warranty exclusions.
- [Cali Longboards 9x71](https://flooringcompared.com/spc/cali-longboards-9x71.md): declared specification, installation limits and warranty exclusions.
- [COREtec Pro Enhanced 7x48](https://flooringcompared.com/spc/coretec-pro-enhanced-7x48.md): declared specification, installation limits and warranty exclusions.
- [COREtec Pro Premium 9x72](https://flooringcompared.com/spc/coretec-pro-premium-9x72.md): declared specification, installation limits and warranty exclusions.
- [Karndean Korlok Select 5.87x23.46](https://flooringcompared.com/spc/karndean-korlok-select-5-87x23-46.md): declared specification, installation limits and warranty exclusions.
- [Karndean Korlok Select 8.86x55.91](https://flooringcompared.com/spc/karndean-korlok-select-8-86x55-91.md): declared specification, installation limits and warranty exclusions.
- [Mannington ADURA Rigid 6x48](https://flooringcompared.com/spc/mannington-adura-rigid-6x48.md): declared specification, installation limits and warranty exclusions.
- [Mannington ADURA Rigid 7x48](https://flooringcompared.com/spc/mannington-adura-rigid-7x48.md): declared specification, installation limits and warranty exclusions.
- [MSI Andover 7x48](https://flooringcompared.com/spc/msi-andover-7x48.md): declared specification, installation limits and warranty exclusions.
- [MSI Cyrus 7x48](https://flooringcompared.com/spc/msi-cyrus-7x48.md): declared specification, installation limits and warranty exclusions.
- [MSI Prescott 7x48](https://flooringcompared.com/spc/msi-prescott-7x48.md): declared specification, installation limits and warranty exclusions.
- [MSI XL Cyrus 9x60](https://flooringcompared.com/spc/msi-xl-cyrus-9x60.md): declared specification, installation limits and warranty exclusions.
- [Tarkett ProGen 12x24](https://flooringcompared.com/spc/tarkett-progen-12x24.md): declared specification, installation limits and warranty exclusions.
- [Tarkett ProGen 7x60](https://flooringcompared.com/spc/tarkett-progen-7x60.md): declared specification, installation limits and warranty exclusions.

## Notes

- [How far a floor runs before a transition](https://flooringcompared.com/notes/max-span-before-a-transition.md): How far a floating floor may run before a transition is required, what each maker declares, and why some declarations are not in the same unit.
- [Two moisture tests, and the floors they disagree on](https://flooringcompared.com/notes/two-moisture-tests.md): Slab moisture is declared by two tests that do not convert. Ranked by one, the strictest floors here are not the strictest floors ranked by the other.
- [Wear layer depth is the number nobody can check](https://flooringcompared.com/notes/wear-layer-depth.md): Depth is the wear layer figure every product page leads with. What the layer is made of, and how it did in an abrasion test, are published far less often.
- [The joint every maker declares and almost none names](https://flooringcompared.com/notes/locking-systems-named-and-unnamed.md): Makers declare a joint and mostly describe the motion an installer makes rather than naming the mechanism, which is the part a reader could look up.
- [Attached pad: the column that says what it is](https://flooringcompared.com/notes/attached-pad-material.md): A pad bonded to the plank is usually recorded as a yes. Its material is recorded far less often, and the material is what decides how it behaves.
- [What a lifetime warranty is worth once labor is read](https://flooringcompared.com/notes/lifetime-warranty-and-labor.md): The term on the front of a warranty separates these documents far less than the labor clause behind it, and every labor clause here has a condition.
- [A slip figure is not a fact without its method](https://flooringcompared.com/notes/slip-figures-and-methods.md): The slip numbers here come from more than one test, and the tests do not measure the same quantity. Ranking them in one column invents a comparison.
- [An impact rating belongs to the building](https://flooringcompared.com/notes/impact-ratings-and-assemblies.md): An impact rating is measured on an assembly, so the spread between declared figures is largely the ceiling underneath rather than the floor on top of it.

## Data

- [spec-v1.json](https://flooringcompared.com/data/spec-v1.json): the published release — products, cells, provenance per cell.
- [dictionary.json](https://flooringcompared.com/data/dictionary.json): every field, its unit, what it means and what goes wrong without it.
- License: CC BY 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) — attribute this reference, and keep each figure's citation and condition attached.

## State

- Brands: 8
- Products with a page: 16
- Cells published: 590
- Fields the maker does not declare: 222
- Cells held back pending resolution: 20
- Documents last read: 2026-11-09 (9 November 2026)

## Who publishes this

This reference is compiled and published by **the operator of this site**, a materials-only flooring retailer in the United States. It sells the category it describes here. No brand pays for inclusion and no brand is ranked; no figure attributed to a manufacturer is the operator’s own measurement, and each is reproduced with the document it came from. The counts and coverage figures are this reference’s own arithmetic over those declarations.
The operator sells flooring materials. It does not sell or arrange fitting, and this site publishes no labor figures and no offers.
Page views are counted with Google Analytics, along with how long each page stays in view. There is no filter, no form and no comparison box on this site. Nothing a reader could type into. [What is counted](/about#measurement).