Robust, easy to maintain, totally trendy and yet timeless – you can find your perfect room-mate with our laminate flooring. Laminate flooring has been the best-selling hard floor covering for years, and stands like no other for ease of maintenance and durability – and has been and continues to be further developed both technically and visually. All-round uncomplicated flooring that requires very little attention and with which you keep a beautiful and resistant floor for many years to come – that’s a guarantee.
74 The complete system
74 The complete system counts: Underlay for high-quality flooring Without good underlay, it’s not a good floor. The underlay material has a significant influence on the durability of the flooring and is an important component of how the entire system functions as far as day-to-day wear is concerned. Premium-quality flooring may suffer damage when laid on poor-quality underlay. High-quality underlay, on the other hand, ensures that your flooring will bring you lasting enjoyment; it prevents damage to the click connections through optimum pressure stability, for example, whereas excessively soft underlay can have a significantly negative effect on fold-down connections. When choosing an underlay material, both the sub-flooring and the flooring to be installed are important. Whether your sub-flooring is concrete, wooden floorboards, drywall or existing flooring such as tiles or stone: With a comprehensive underlay range, MEISTER ensures that every MEISTER floor can be laid on your sub-flooring. Sub-flooring Underlay Silence 25 DB Silence 20 Silence 15 DB Twin Control Foam film PE-film Wooden floorboards – P – – P – Composite wood boards, oriented strand boards, drywall – P – – P – Mineral subfloors (e.g. cement screed, anhydrite screed) P P with PE film P P P with PE film P Mastic asphalt screed – P – – P – Mastic asphalt screed P P with PE film P P P with PE film P
75 The MEISTER underlay materials: Thanks to the special PUR mineral blend, MEISTER-Silence 25 DB, MEISTER-Silence 20 and MEISTER-Silence 15 DB are the perfect insulating underlay for effective sound absorption in the room and reduction of footfall transmitted to the rooms below. The high self-weight of the products also further improves their sound-absorbing properties. In the case of Silence 25 DB and 15 DB the vapour barrier is already integrated, eliminating the need to lay an additional PE film. This is also true for MEISTER Twin Control. The insulating underlay made from closed-cell, moisture-resistant, permanently elastic extruded polyurethane foam also features a practical, integrated self-adhesive strip along its length. With a roll length of 25 m, it is fast and easy to lay and additionally offers excellent footfall noise reduction. MEISTER foam film is an insulating underlay with a higher density than many other commercially available foam films; in combination with MEISTER PE-film, it provides optimum moisture protection. All MEISTER underlay materials can be installed on underfloor heating. They comply with the technical bulletin provided by the European Producers of Laminate Flooring (EPLF) based on CEN/TS 16354. The Silence products also meet the requirements of the technical bulletin issued by the Multilayer Modular Flooring Association (MMFA): ‘Underlay Materials under Multilayer Modular Floor Coverings (MMF) – Test Standards and Performance Indicators’ for Class 1 (with HDF core). 1. MEISTER Silence 25 DB with integrated vapour barrier / 3 mm 2. MEISTER Silence 20 / 2.5 mm 3. MEISTER Silence 15 DB with integrated vapour barrier / 2 mm 4. MEISTER Twin Control with integrated vapour barrier and adhesive strips / 2 mm 5. MEISTER foam film / 2 mm 1 2 3 4 5
