MSI Andover 7x48

MSI’s Andover is a SPC rigid core plank measuring 7 by 48 inches at 5 mm overall. Everything on this page is MSI’s own declaration about it, read from documents MSI publishes, and reproduced next to the document each figure came from.

The row is the product line, not a color. MSI publishes one specification per line and per plank size, and the color underneath changes none of the figures below, so this page covers every color offered at 7 × 48 in.

Every cell in the tables below is one of four things. A figure means the manufacturer declares it, and the document it was read from is named beside it. A cell reading no declaration means the manufacturer publishes nothing for that field, which is a finding about the product rather than a gap in this table. A cell reading held pending resolution means two independent readings of the same document disagreed, and nothing is published until a person settles it. A cell reading not collected means no document has been read for that field yet, and that shortfall is ours rather than the maker's.

The residential term is published as a word, not a number: a lifetime warranty. No document read for it turns that into a number.

Labor is not covered. The remedy is replacement material or a refund of the purchase price, which is the smaller half of the bill on a floor that has to come up. See lifetime warranties and labor.

The remedy does not decline over the term; it is replacement or refund throughout, at the maker's option.

8 exclusions are named in the warranty, and they are listed in full below, not summarized. Among them are the everyday sort a household does not expect to be excluded: rubber or PVC backed mats; sunlight and UV fading; high heels and spiked shoes; and two others in the list below. The grouping is this reference's; the wording below is the maker's.

Named exclusions, from the maker’s own warranty document:

• Improper installation, including unsuitable sub-floor and improper conditioning of jobsite and material
• Mats or area rugs constructed of rubber or PVC
• High heels and pet nails
• Installing residential product in a commercial environment
• Fading, discoloration or other damage due to excessive temperatures or sunlight
• Flooring installed on stairs
• Claims reported more than 30 days after the defect was discovered
• Leaks from appliances and plumbing

Eight entries are published here; how many the document lists was not recorded.

“The warranty does not cover: Improper Installation ... Improper Use or Abuse ... Flooring installed on stairs” — Everlife Rigid Core Multilayer LVT Warranty · read 2026-08-22

This reference’s note: the quotation is an excerpt of the list, elided

MSI’s own documents do not agree about 3 fields on this product. Nothing is published for them above, because a value two of the maker's documents contradict is not a value to publish under anyone's name. The disagreement is itself a fact about the documents, it is checkable, and it is set out below with both sources named.

The warranty terms are the sharp case: commercial warranty is stated as 10 years in one document and 5 years in another; light commercial warranty is stated as 15 years in one document and 10 years in another. A buyer comparing this product against another on published warranty length is comparing against a number that depends on which of the maker's PDFs they happened to open.

Of the 9 core installation limits this reference tracks, MSI declares all 9, and enough for the installation coverage badge.

Of the 6 core standardized test results this reference tracks, MSI declares 3 and states nothing for the other 3, so the specification badge is not earned.

12 fields are recorded as undeclared instead of left blank: ASTM product standard, Abrasion cycles, F3261 grade, F970 indentation, Static load limit, Unique planks, Sq ft per carton, STC assembly, among others. Each of those is the maker publishing nothing, not a failure to look here.

The opposite gap is recorded too, and this one is ours and not MSI’s: 3 fields in the dictionary have not been read for this product: Commercial class claimed, EPD / HPD, Wear layer finish. They are missing from the table for want of a document held here, not because MSI publishes nothing about them.