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Interface Backings
When you’re choosing flooring, your first thoughts are likely about the colour, design, pattern and texture.
At Interface, we also encourage you to consider the backing – the backing can contain materials to help lower the carbon footprint of the finished tile. And, it also preserves the long-lasting look, feel and performance of your floor.
Standard Backings
In most situations, our standard backings give you everything you need. We supply most of our carpet tiles with a CQuest™Bio backing, and our LVT (Luxury Vinyl Tiles) come with Sound Choice™ acoustic backing. Both are well suited to most commercial environments and proven to perform in them.
Carpet Tile - CQuestBioX
Carpet Tile - CQuest™Bio
LVT - Sound Choice™
Carpet Tile - CQuestBioX
All our carbon negative products come with CQuest™BioX backing as a standard option. The carbon negative materials in the CQuest™BioX backing, in combination with speciality yarns and tufting processes, result in a carbon negative carpet tile. The finished product combines durability, industry-leading design, and a negative carbon footprint that ultimately benefits the planet and shows that the pursuits of great design and sustainability are inseparable.
Carpet Tile - CQuest™Bio
Whatever Interface modular carpet you choose, CQuest™Bio provides the perfect backing. It is now our standard backing on all carpet tiles. CQuest™Bio contains recycled and bio-based materials. These materials, measured on a standalone basis, are net carbon negative – greatly reducing our carbon footprint.
LVT - Sound Choice™
Designed specifically as the integrated backing for our LVT collection, the Sound Choice acoustic backing helps your flooring reduce unwanted sound much more effectively than other hard surfaces. In particular, it reduces impact sound by 16 dB to avoid disturbances between floors and rooms. So it’s especially useful in multi-storey office buildings, as well as in education, healthcare and hospitality environments. As a standard component of our LVT tiles, Sound Choice offers acoustic insulation without the expense of fitting underlays.
Carpet Tile - CQuestBioX
All our carbon negative products come with CQuest™BioX backing as a standard option. The carbon negative materials in the CQuest™BioX backing, in combination with speciality yarns and tufting processes, result in a carbon negative carpet tile. The finished product combines durability, industry-leading design, and a negative carbon footprint that ultimately benefits the planet and shows that the pursuits of great design and sustainability are inseparable.
Carpet Tile - CQuest™Bio
Whatever Interface modular carpet you choose, CQuest™Bio provides the perfect backing. It is now our standard backing on all carpet tiles. CQuest™Bio contains recycled and bio-based materials. These materials, measured on a standalone basis, are net carbon negative – greatly reducing our carbon footprint.
LVT - Sound Choice™
Designed specifically as the integrated backing for our LVT collection, the Sound Choice acoustic backing helps your flooring reduce unwanted sound much more effectively than other hard surfaces. In particular, it reduces impact sound by 16 dB to avoid disturbances between floors and rooms. So it’s especially useful in multi-storey office buildings, as well as in education, healthcare and hospitality environments. As a standard component of our LVT tiles, Sound Choice offers acoustic insulation without the expense of fitting underlays.
Additional Carpet Tile Backings
Sometimes you might have very specific requirements – maybe because of the way the space will be used, or because of the type of subfloor, you’re working with. Whatever you need from a backing, we have it. All our backings are the result of many years of development by our product material research teams. And we test them to rigorous industry standards, to ensure they do their job – keeping your tiles dimensionally stable, in their place throughout their life, and making them easy to fit and update.
CQuest™BioX
CQuest™Bio SONE and SONE+
CQuest™BioX
It’s the same material make-up as CQuest™Bio with a higher concentration of carbon negative materials. The carbon negative materials in CQuest™BioX backing, in combination with specialty yarns and tufting processes, result in a carbon negative carpet tile.
CQuest™Bio SONE and SONE+
Our integrated acoustic backings. Designed with the user in mind, they enhance both acoustics and underfoot comfort. The integral nature of CQuestBio SONE and CQuestBio SONE+ means that projects can be completed swiftly with as little disruption as possible.
CQuestBio SONE
- Impact sound reduction up to 29dB
- Sound absorption up to αw 0.30
CQuestBio SONE+
- Impact sound reduction up to 33dB
- Sound absorption from αw 0.30 – 0.40 depending on product
CQuest™BioX
It’s the same material make-up as CQuest™Bio with a higher concentration of carbon negative materials. The carbon negative materials in CQuest™BioX backing, in combination with specialty yarns and tufting processes, result in a carbon negative carpet tile.
CQuest™Bio SONE and SONE+
Our integrated acoustic backings. Designed with the user in mind, they enhance both acoustics and underfoot comfort. The integral nature of CQuestBio SONE and CQuestBio SONE+ means that projects can be completed swiftly with as little disruption as possible.
CQuestBio SONE
- Impact sound reduction up to 29dB
- Sound absorption up to αw 0.30
CQuestBio SONE+
- Impact sound reduction up to 33dB
- Sound absorption from αw 0.30 – 0.40 depending on product
Loose Lay Under Floor System
For higher levels of acoustic and ergonomic comfort, Interlay CQuestBio SONE is a loose-lay resilient underfloor system designed for installation beneath your Interface carpet tiles. We supply it in 50 x 50 cm tiles, so you can use it across an entire space or limit it to smaller defined areas, and feel the benefits just where you need them.
Made from CQuest™Bio with a SONE felt layer, our loose lay under floor system absorbs sound and dampens impact noise, making it a highly effective way to combat poor acoustics in any interior space.
It’s easy to install and its benefits are long lasting – when your carpet needs replacing, Interlay CQuestBio SONE will still be going strong. You can re-use it, again and again, enjoying more comfort and less noise well into the future.
Please note Interlay CQuestBio SONE is not compatible with our LVT products.
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