Savannah Premium Wood Flooring has been installing, repairing, and refinishing wood floors in the Savannah, GA area for over 20 years! Luxury vinyl plank flooring has changed significantly over the past decade. The LVP products available today — rigid core SPC (stone plastic composite) and WPC (wood plastic composite) construction, with wear layers ranging from 6 to 22 mils and photographic layers that replicate wood grain with accuracy that was not possible ten years ago — are a legitimate flooring choice for applications where hardwood is either technically inappropriate or economically impractical. In Savannah's climate, where humidity averages above 70 percent through the summer months and moisture intrusion through slab foundations and crawlspaces is a persistent management issue, LVP performs in conditions that would compromise solid hardwood. According to the Floor Covering Industry Association, LVP is now the fastest-growing flooring category in the United States, accounting for over 20 percent of total flooring sales by volume — a shift driven by genuine performance advantages rather than marketing.

LVP is not a substitute for hardwood in every application, and we are direct about that distinction with every customer. In a home with original heart pine floors throughout, installing LVP in a single room creates a transition that does not work aesthetically or materially. In a new construction home on a concrete slab in Pooler where the homeowner wants a wood-look floor in a high-traffic kitchen, mudroom, and laundry corridor — LVP is often the correct specification. The right product for any application depends on subfloor type, moisture conditions, traffic demands, and how the flooring needs to transition to adjacent materials. We assess all of those variables before making a recommendation.