TFD vinyl flooring experiences

Hello everyone! Does anyone have experience with the vinyl flooring from TFD? We saw this flooring called Futura 39-5 at a dealer and find it very suitable. However, there are no experience or review ratings about it on the internet. They apparently come from the Netherlands. Maybe that's why there are so few reports about it? Regards xeniatoe

This request is completely incomprehensible! Nowadays, since the manufacturer and product name are known, a mere 3-minute internet search is sufficient to view the product data, including the wear layer thickness and usage class. These manufacturer data are, as they concern binding product properties, far more meaningful and reliable than any subjective opinion, which also may not be accurate.

Yes, I also googled and yes, I have received all the data. However, I also find experience important. Maybe it is not easy to clean or you immediately have streaks on it or something else.

Regarding the question of the TEs, I unfortunately cannot contribute anything. I just want to briefly comment on this:

These manufacturer data are, since they concern binding product properties, significantly more meaningful and binding than any subjective opinion, which moreover does not have to be accurate.

But can you blindly trust manufacturer specifications? Then I don’t understand what the media have been reporting about emissions data in recent years. Lying press? Or is it somehow completely different with flooring manufacturers? No no, experience reports are correct and important. You just have to mentally subtract that usually rather dissatisfied buyers have a reason to publicly share their experiences. In this respect, I find asking in a forum quite sensible, as even an overall satisfied user might feel compelled to write something about it.

@ Tolentino: The information in product data sheets is binding for the product! We also referred to product data sheets, which now has absolutely nothing to do with "press." One thing is the manufacturer's technical product data, the other are marketing statements (which do not necessarily have to be accurate). One must also apply a healthy dose of skepticism to reports based on experience – and not accept everything uncritically. A statement that coincides in content with your sentence, that mostly dissatisfied consumers, whether justified or not justified with their concerns, go public.

In this respect, I find the inquiry in a forum quite sensible, as a generally satisfied user might also feel compelled to write something about it.

Correct in principle, but also burdened with the uncertainty of the correct applicability of each individual opinion. Therefore: consult the product data sheet and trust it! Regards: KlaRa

: I cannot speak for the quality of product datasheets in the construction industry.
But for example, in consumer electronics, 150 watts is simply not the same power everywhere.
Impulse, continuous load, sinusoidal, RMS, music or even PMP power, at what distortion rate, with white or pink noise, one channel or all channels driven, 4 ohms, 6 ohms, 8 ohms.
Frequency responses: -3dB, -6dB, 1W at 1m or 0.5m?
All have been seen in official technical datasheets.
And of course binding.
Just like battery life in mobile phones or notebooks. Sound emissions in washing machines, refrigerators, and dishwashers. What were the measurement conditions? According to what usage scheme was it carried out? Datasheets usually remain silent about this.
But if nothing is said about the measurement conditions, any number can be considered binding or you have to admit that every number is actually non-binding.
I do not know now how it is for example with abrasion and hardness classes of floors, maybe there is a cross-manufacturer standard or agreement on levels and measurement conditions here. But I would doubt that these also take long-term tests or realistic conditions into account, which of course occur in everyday life. Solar radiation for example: one floor might show discoloration or lose abrasion resistance after two summers, the next remains like on the first day.
Usually, this is not the case for products used by end customers.
So insofar I trust more on evaluations on the internet and try to read between the lines than to trust the non-transparent information of a manufacturer with whom I have no experience myself.
Datasheets are a first clue to filter in a confusing product landscape. But if you then have one to three favorites, you are well advised to rely on experiences. Even better, if these are experiences from experts – but independent ones and not blindly adopting manufacturer specifications.

Best regards

Tolentino