People over purchase in wear layer thickness for residential applications and unknowingly give their floors more of a plastic look than they need. They associate a thicker wear layer with a stronger, more mar resistant wear layer, which is not the case.

Most households would be fine with a 6mil wear layer, 12 at the most for very active households. I’ve been on commercial sites years later with 6mil wear layers where the only failures were low spots from poor prep.

Thicker wear layers are designed to last for years in commercial spaces, which might see more traffic in a day than many houses in a year.

A vinyl plank wear layer is a PVC/polyurethane blend, with different additives depending on the brand but almost all with aluminum oxide. These wear layers are ever slightly opaque.

The decor layer for these planks sits below the surface of the wear layer, and the thicker it is the more it of a “plastic” look the surface will have and the less sharp the decor layer will look.

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