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Karndean

One of the commercial flooring brands supplied & installed by Urban Commercial Flooring.

Luxury vinyl chosen for the look, specified for the traffic.

True-to-life timber and stoneGluedown & loose-layWear layer built for commercialDesign freedom

On site — Karndean LVT in a Victorian fit-out

In luxury vinyl tile, Karndean is about as recognised as the category gets — convincing timber and stone finishes carried on a wear layer built for commercial duty. Urban Commercial Flooring supplies and lays the Karndean range across Melbourne and Victoria, usually in the parts of a building people actually look at: receptions and waiting areas, shopfits, cafés and workplaces. Both gluedown and loose-lay formats are available.

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About Karndean

What keeps designers coming back to Karndean LVT

Getting timber and stone to read as genuine in luxury vinyl has taken Karndean decades of work, and the results show. The bigger advantage is format: because the floor arrives as separate tiles and planks, a designer can lay out herringbone, brick-bond or mixed-width patterns that simply are not possible in sheet. None of that comes at the cost of durability, since the commercial wear layer keeps retail and office floors looking fresh.

Two formats cover most situations. Gluedown bonds right down for a permanent, seamless result; LooseLay grips through its backing with almost no adhesive, which means one board can be lifted and replaced later without disturbing what surrounds it. Urban Commercial Flooring supplies and installs Karndean across Melbourne and Victoria, and part of our job is picking the format that suits both the traffic and the programme you are working to. Installation carries a 2-year workmanship warranty.

What Karndean makes

2 product types, each engineered for a different job

Gluedown LVT & LVP

Separate tiles and planks glued to the slab for a fixed, joint-free finish.

Knight Tile and Van Gogh carry the timber and stone designs as discrete tiles and planks. Bonded down to the subfloor they give you a stable, hard-wearing surface, and the commercial wear layer is what lets them take the traffic.

Application: Reception floors, shopfits, café interiors and offices where appearance counts as heavily as the wear rating.
Suited to: RetailHospitalityCommercial & OfficeEducation

Knight Tile Gluedown

20 colours2mm

Van Gogh Gluedown

20 colours3mm

LooseLay Planks

Weighty planks that need barely any glue — quick to lay, quick to patch.

A friction-grip backing does the holding on the LooseLay range, so planks stay put with minimal adhesive or none at all. That makes the install faster, lets a single damaged board be swapped out later, and suits any space that cannot be shut for long.

Application: Workplaces, tenancy fit-outs and retail floors where install time and easy board swaps are the priority.
Suited to: Commercial & OfficeRetailHospitality

LooseLay Longboard

20 colours4.5mm

Looselay Original

30 colours4.5mm

Where it fits

Specified across these sectors

Healthcare

Hospitals, medical clinics and dental surgery fit-outs.

Aged Care

Aged-care accommodation and retirement communities.

Education

Schools, childcare facilities and university campuses.

Retail

Retail stores, showroom spaces and shopping centres.

Hospitality

Cafés, restaurant floors, hotels and club venues.

Commercial & Office

Office tenancies, fit-out projects and public buildings.

Questions

Karndean — common questions

Will Karndean hold up in a commercial space?

It will. The commercial wear layer on Karndean LVT is specified for retail, office and hospitality foot traffic — and you keep the realistic timber and stone finishes that put the range on the mood board in the first place.

Gluedown or LooseLay — which should I choose?

It comes down to how the floor is held and how you want to maintain it. Gluedown is adhered right to the subfloor and stays there, giving a permanent, seamless result. LooseLay relies on a friction-grip backing instead, so it needs little or no adhesive, goes down faster, and lets you pull up a single board later and drop a new one in.

Do you cover regional Victoria for Karndean?

We do. Urban Commercial Flooring supplies and installs Karndean throughout Melbourne and regional Victoria for reception, retail, hospitality and office work, and out-of-hours installation is available when a venue needs to keep trading.

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Thinking about Karndean for a Victorian fit-out?

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