What the Cyrus range is
A 5 mm rigid core plank with a pad already bonded to the back, finished matte and printed as wood. Almost every board shares that build, which is unusual: many ranges mix thicknesses and backings across their colors, and in the Cyrus range the only variables a buyer meets are the color, the format and the wear layer.
The core is the rigid type across almost all of the range, not flexible vinyl, so the boards are dimensionally stable and lock edge to edge, rather than bonding to the subfloor. A small number of boards do not state the core type in their specification fields even though the description calls them rigid core, so the product page is the place to confirm it on a specific color. The attached pad is standard across the range, not an option on part of it, which removes one decision that most floors leave open. What floating construction means in practice is covered on click lock vinyl.
Cyrus and XL Cyrus
XL is a format name, not a different product. Cyrus is 7 by 48 inches; XL Cyrus is 9 by 60. The core, the pad, the finish and the print technology are shared, and several colors are made in both, so a buyer who prefers a wider board is usually not giving up the color they wanted. Barnstorm, Amber Forrester and Brookings are among the names that appear in both formats.
The choice between them is the ordinary width decision, not a quality one: 9 by 60 puts fewer lines across a room and suits open plan space, 7 by 48 divides more comfortably into smaller and broken up rooms. That trade is set out in full under wide plank and standard width.
The one specification that does differ
Wear layer is the exception, and it does not split the way people assume. Most of the range carries 12 mil, but a group of the 7 by 48 boards carries 20 mil, and no 9 by 60 board does. So the heaviest duty option in the Cyrus range is only available in the narrower format.
That matters for a hallway, a kitchen or a house with dogs, where the wear layer is the number that decides how long the floor keeps its appearance. A buyer who wants both the wide format and the thicker wear layer has to look outside the Cyrus range instead of within it, which is the sort of thing that surfaces when a sample of the wrong one arrives.
Matching an existing Cyrus floor
A good part of the reason people search a range by name is that they already have it down and need more, or need it to carry into another room. Two things decide whether that works. The color name has to still be in production, and the format has to match, because a 7 by 48 board and a 9 by 60 board in the same color will not sit in the same field convincingly even though they print the same.
Two details catch people out at this point. Part of the range is listed as Cyrus 2.0 instead of Cyrus, which is a name revision and not a different floor, so the color name is the reliable thing to match on and the version label is not. The other is the edge: most of the range is square edged and only a few boards are bevelled, and a bevelled board set against a square edged one leaves a shadow line down the join. The second thing is the trim. Most boards in the range have coordinating pieces listed against them, but not every color has the stair nose, the doorway transition and the quarter round all three made for it, and which pieces exist depends on the color. Those are the parts that make an extension read as one floor and not two. The profiles sit under flooring trim, and the piece that matches is fixed to the specific floor, so an approximate match borrowed from another range shows at the joint.
Where it goes
Nearly every board in the range is specified for use over radiant heat, most are described as waterproof, and commercial ratings are quoted across it. In practice that puts Cyrus in the same bracket as the rest of the rigid core category: kitchens, bathrooms, basements, heated slabs and light commercial floors as well as ordinary rooms.
Brown is the largest color family, with beige close behind it and a smaller gray group, and the names are the usual mixture of places and woods: Akadia, Whitfield Gray, Sandino, Fauna, Katella Ash. Color is the one thing a screen cannot settle, and the color families are laid out under brown, beige and gray.
