Fire-rated carpet through the shared spaces; carpet or hard floors within each apartment.
The shared spaces of a tower are what the building shows the world; the apartments are what it sells. Urban Commercial Flooring covers both throughout Victoria. Shared spaces — ground-floor lobby, lift lobbies, corridors, hallways, stairs — are laid in fire-rated commercial carpet only, as wall-to-wall broadloom or as tile. Within an apartment, bedrooms and living areas can take residential carpet specified fire-rated for multi-level, and a living area may instead take laminate, hybrid or engineered flooring, always sitting on an acoustic underlay so the BCA is met, with engineered timber the usual pick in premium towers. Vinyl doesn't go into a high-rise at all.
Because lobbies, lift lobbies, corridors, hallways and stairs all form egress paths, the only option there is fire-rated commercial carpet — broadloom or tile — that clears critical-radiant-flux. Vinyl, laminate and timber stay out of those spaces entirely.
Specify:commercial broadloom or carpet tile, fire-rated, in EVERY common area.
Sound moves between units and tenancies through the shared circulation. Fire-rated carpet absorbs footfall and takes the hard edge off a corridor, and when one stretch wears out you patch that stretch rather than the whole level.
Specify:fire-rated broadloom or carpet tile that can be replaced section by section.
Residential carpet specified fire-rated for multi-level suits bedrooms and living areas. A living area can equally run laminate, hybrid or engineered — and in some buildings the bedrooms follow suit — with engineered timber the usual choice at the premium end of the market.
Specify:residential carpet specified fire-rated — or laminate, hybrid or engineered in the living areas.
No laminate or engineered floor goes down inside an apartment without a rated acoustic underlay beneath it — that is the BCA impact-sound floor, the bare minimum. Plenty of buildings write a stricter acoustic target into their own rules, and we specify to whichever number governs.
Specify:a rated acoustic underlay beneath EVERY laminate and engineered floor — BCA is the minimum, premium towers go further.
Fire-rated broadloom, or a feature tile, for an arrival that reads premium.
Tough fire-rated carpet tile built for non-stop traffic.
Fire-rated tile or broadloom: quiet, comfortable and simple to patch.
Fire-rated carpet that clears critical-radiant-flux.
Residential carpet, or laminate, hybrid or engineered on acoustic underlay.
Fire-rated residential carpet for warmth — or a hard floor carried through from the living area.
Every shared space in a tower — the ground-floor lobby, lift lobbies, corridors, hallways, stairs — is laid in fire-rated commercial carpet and nothing else, either wall-to-wall broadloom or carpet tile. Vinyl, laminate and timber have no place there. Where hard floors do belong is inside the apartments themselves, and those suppliers are listed further down this page.
Wall-to-wall commercial broadloom in restrained tones that suit both workplace and residential towers, specified fire-rated for the lobbies, corridors and lounges of a multi-level building.
Broadloom manufactured in Australia and specified fire-rated for multi-level common areas — a warm, hard-wearing floor for lobbies and lounge spaces.
Modular carpet tile from an Australian maker, specified fire-rated for shared floors — lift lobbies and corridors included — and replaceable one tile at a time.
Hard floors belong within the apartments and nowhere near the common areas. Since we carry no hybrid, laminate or engineered catalogue of our own, we specify and lay the strongest suppliers available in Australia and Victoria — every one of them over an acoustic underlay that meets the BCA, and more where a higher-standard tower demands it. Our commercial carpet ranges have their own brand pages.
Hybrid, laminate and engineered ranges specified on projects right across Victoria — laid over acoustic underlay in apartment living areas.
The premium apartment answer: engineered timber through the living areas, on a rated acoustic underlay, usually to a target set above the BCA minimum.
Shared-area flooring in a tower carries the traffic of everyone in the building, has to clear the fire and acoustic requirements, and has to satisfy the owners' corporation and the building manager. We specify the fire-rated carpet against those requirements and provide the test data that the building surveyor and manager will ask to see.
Within the apartments, every laminate or engineered floor goes down over an acoustic underlay so the BCA impact-sound rule is met as a floor, not a ceiling — premium buildings routinely set a harder target — and residential carpet is specified fire-rated for multi-level living. Evidenced with documentation, not assumed.
Fire-rated commercial carpet only, laid either as wall-to-wall broadloom or as tile, across lobbies, lift lobbies, corridors, hallways and stairs. Vinyl, laminate, hybrid and timber are ruled out in those spaces, because shared egress paths have fire and acoustic rules to satisfy.
Residential carpet specified fire-rated for multi-level works through bedrooms and living areas. A living area can also run laminate, hybrid or engineered — occasionally the bedrooms as well — provided it sits on an acoustic underlay that meets the BCA. Engineered timber is the usual choice in higher-end towers.
Always. A rated acoustic underlay under laminate or engineered is what gets the floor over the BCA impact-sound requirement, and that requirement is a minimum rather than a target. Premium buildings often write in something stricter, and we specify to whichever one governs.
Yes — occupied buildings are routine for us. Urban Commercial Flooring stages the work outside normal hours and moves level by level, so lobbies, lift lobbies and corridors stay usable and the building keeps functioning.
Describe the building — what the common areas look like and how the apartment mix breaks down — and we'll map fire-rated carpet and acoustic-underlaid hard floors space by space, with samples and an installed price.
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