Shaw Floors Aspire 3381V Vinyl Plank Flooring

Vinyl has quietly become the floor of choice for kitchens, basements, and busy households, and for one simple reason: water does not bother it.

In simple terms: Shaw Floors Aspire 3381V is luxury vinyl plank, a wood-look floor that is 100% waterproof and built to take real-life traffic. It is WPC, Squarefoot Flooring carries it and our own crew installs it.

Here is what matters on this one. The core is WPC, wood-polymer composite, the more comfortable of the rigid cores. It has a touch more give than stone-based rigid-core, so it feels softer and warmer to walk on while staying stable and flat. The 20 mil wear layer puts it in heavy-residential, light-commercial territory, which is where vinyl earns its keep in a family home. With vinyl, the mil rating tells you more about longevity than the overall thickness does. It is 100% waterproof top to bottom, not merely water-resistant, so kitchens, bathrooms, laundry rooms, basements, and entries are all fair game. An attached acoustic underlayment cuts down sound transfer and adds a little underfoot comfort, and it saves a separate pad on install. Planks run up to 9 inches wide and 60 inches long, a wide-and-long format that reads like real wood. It is backed by a Resilient Lifetime residential warranty. Colours in the range include Mesa Brown, Mineral Grey, Nomadic Brown, Coastal Drift, and Woodland Truffle.

Decision line: Aspire 3381V is the warmer, softer-feeling option, a good fit where comfort underfoot is worth a slightly thicker board.

We install Shaw Floors Aspire 3381V with our own team, not subcontractors, across the GTA, Barrie, and Simcoe County. It floats over most existing hard floors once the base is flat and dry. Read how we work on the vinyl installation page, or see our projects.

We keep Aspire 3381V at both stores, where the texture and colour read properly. Contact us for stock, or start from our Toronto and Mississauga vinyl pages. For more on what waterproof really means, see our is flooring waterproof guide. You can browse the complete Shaw Floors lineup on our Shaw Floors page.