Shaw 5th and Main vs Resilient Residential: Commercial vs Residential (2026)

Quick answer: These aren't two tiers of one catalog. 5th and Main is a commercial line — it lives on Philadelphia Commercial, Shaw's commercial brand, and it's specified through a local territory manager, with no retail price published. Resilient Residential is Shaw's residential catalog: $2.99–$8.19/sq ft, 6–30 mil, floating or glue, lifetime warranties on most styles. If you're a homeowner shopping for your own floor, Resilient Residential isn't the better choice — it's the one that's for sale to you.

If you've been comparing these two, you've probably run into the same thing we did: the numbers never line up. One of them has prices, wear layers, colors, and warranties you can read off a page. The other has almost nothing you can pin down.

That's not because 5th and Main is obscure or discontinued. It's because it isn't a residential product. It's sold into commercial projects through Shaw's commercial brand, and commercial flooring simply isn't merchandised the way a residential collection is — no shelf price, no add-to-cart, no DIY install guide. Once you know that, the comparison stops being a value question and becomes a much simpler one: which side of that line is your project on?

We'll be straight about our own history here. FloorFreight is an authorized Shaw dealer for Shaw's residential flooring, and an earlier version of this page treated 5th and Main as the budget rung of that catalog, with a price attached. That was wrong, and we've corrected it. We don't carry the line and we can't quote it. Everything below about Resilient Residential is a floor we can actually ship you from the Dalton, GA mills, quoted at the manufacturer's advertised price (MAP) per square foot, with the matching per-carton total and coverage on each product page.

For the full walkthrough of Shaw's residential LVP with every style and spec, start with our Shaw LVP buyer's guide. This post goes deeper on just the two-way.

The Short Version: How They Compare

Every checkmark in that table is on the same side, which looks lopsided until you notice what the table is actually measuring: not quality, but whether the product is available to you at all. A commercial line loses a retail comparison by definition. That's the honest finding, and it's why this page no longer pretends the two trade blows on price.

What 5th and Main Actually Is

5th and Main is a luxury vinyl tile line carried by Philadelphia Commercial, which is Shaw's commercial flooring brand. Its collection page describes the LVT available through 5th & Main and then tells you exactly how to proceed: contact your local hard surface territory manager for additional details.^{Source 1} That single line is the whole distribution model. There's no price grid because a commercial floor is quoted against a project — square footage, schedule, and specification — not sold by the carton to whoever clicks first.

Shaw's residential side reinforces the split by omission. The 5th and Main brand page on shawfloors.com is gone, and searching the residential site for the line's products turns up nothing; the old residential URLs redirect across to the commercial site instead. The line hasn't vanished — it moved home, or more precisely, it was always at the other address.

It is not discontinued. That's worth stating plainly, because "no price, no dealer, no listing" reads like a dead product and it isn't one. Metropolis 6 (style 5M216), the style most often named in these comparisons, is live on Philadelphia Commercial today, with sample ordering and a room visualizer right on the page — filed, as the page title says, under commercial vinyl flooring.^{Source 2} It's a current product. It's just a current commercial product.

What we're not going to tell you about it. We don't publish a price for 5th and Main, because Shaw doesn't. We're not going to quote its wear layer, install method, or warranty against the residential styles below either, because those specs are written for a commercial specification and lifting them into a homeowner's comparison table is how this page went wrong the first time. If 5th and Main is genuinely on your project, your territory manager has the real numbers and we don't.

Where that leaves a homeowner. Almost always: this isn't your line. If a designer, GC, or specifier put a 5th and Main product in a package for a build-out, go to Philadelphia Commercial. If you're refreshing a rental, finishing a basement, or doing your own house, you want the residential catalog — and the good news is that the thing people came to 5th and Main hoping for, a genuinely cheap Shaw floor, exists there anyway.

What Resilient Residential Is

Resilient Residential is where Shaw's residential LVP identity lives — the large majority of Shaw's active LVP styles, spread across every wear-layer tier, with plank widths from 5" up to 9" and the trademarked sub-brands buyers recognize: Floorté, ArmourBead™, and Stabilitas. It's the catalog we stock, and it's the one built to be shopped.

The price ladder runs $2.99 to $8.19/sq ft at MAP, and the tiers are legible:

• Endura Plus ($2.99/sq ft) — 12 mil wear layer, EVA attached pad, 100% waterproof, lifetime residential warranty. The entry-tier value, and the answer for most people who arrived here looking for the cheap one.
• Impact Plus ($2.99/sq ft) — same price, 6 mil wear layer, EVA pad. Worth knowing about, but Endura Plus gives you twice the wear layer for the same money, so take it unless one of Impact Plus's colors is specifically what you want.
• Anvil Plus 20 Mil ($3.29/sq ft) — 20 mil at an entry-tier price, floating, no attached pad. Budget $0.50/sq ft for underlayment.
• Infinite SPC ($3.89/sq ft) — 20 mil, SPC core. The best mid-tier SPC value in the lineup.
• Pantheon HD Plus ($6.49/sq ft) — 20 mil, attached pad, wide planks. Premium spec and premium visuals.
• Titan HD Plus Platinum ($6.79/sq ft) — 30 mil, 9" × 72" planks, IXPE attached underlayment. Commercial-grade wear protection at a residential price, and the best long-term value in the collection.

Waterproofing isn't a variable inside the collection. Every active Shaw LVP style we carry is flagged 100% waterproof — rated for kitchens, baths, laundry rooms, and basements — so it's not a spec you need to shop against. The rating is printed on each product page if you want to confirm it on a specific style.

Wear layer is the spec that actually separates them. It's the clear coating over the printed design, measured in mil, and it's the best single predictor of how long the floor keeps looking new. Six mil is entry grade for quiet rooms; 12 mil covers standard family use; 20 mil is the residential standard and the right floor for kitchens, entries, pets, and kids; 30 mil is commercial-grade. Our wear-layer explainer breaks down what each tier buys you.

Most styles carry lifetime residential warranties. One thing to know before you count that as resale value: Shaw's residential resilient warranty is not transferable. It extends only to the original owner-occupied end-use purchaser, so it covers you for as long as you own the floor and ends when you sell the home.^{Source 3}

One name that does not live in this collection, despite how often it gets filed here: Pet Perfect®. Shaw treats it as one of three top-level groups its vinyl category is divided into, alongside the Classic Series and the Pro Series,^{Source 4} it's primarily a carpet line, and its luxury vinyl entry is a small, separate style list we don't carry at all. For a pet household shopping Resilient Residential, the spec doing the real work is wear layer: 20 mil and up is what resists claws, and it's available across most of the collection.

Which One Applies to You

A commercial build-out, tenant improvement, or spec package

Retail, office, healthcare, multifamily common areas — anywhere a designer or specifier is writing the flooring into a package. This is what 5th and Main exists for, and the process is a phone call, not a checkout.

Where to go: Philadelphia Commercial, through your local hard surface territory manager.^{Source 1} Not us.

The cheapest possible Shaw floor for your own home

This is the search that sends most people to this page, and the answer isn't the commercial line — it's Endura Plus at $2.99/sq ft: 12 mil wear layer, attached EVA pad, waterproof, lifetime residential warranty, and it floats, so it's a genuine DIY weekend project. There's no cheaper Shaw residential floor, and the specs are better than the reputation of "the cheap one" suggests.

Where to go: Resilient Residential.

A rental, flip, or pre-sale refresh

Square footage you want covered cleanly and inexpensively, probably by an installer, probably not a forever floor. Endura Plus again at $2.99, or Anvil Plus 20 Mil at $3.29 if the unit turns over often enough that a 20 mil wear layer pays for itself.

Where to go: Resilient Residential.

Kitchens, baths, laundry, and basements

Anywhere water lives. Every Shaw LVP style we carry is built for it, so this is a wear-layer and budget decision rather than a waterproofing one: Endura Plus ($2.99) at the entry, Infinite SPC ($3.89) for a denser 20 mil floor in an active kitchen, up to Titan HD Plus Platinum ($6.79) where you want maximum durability.

Where to go: Resilient Residential.

The whole-home or forever floor

Covering the main living areas of a home you plan to stay in means wear layer, warranty, and consistent color and plank width across a lot of square footage. That's Resilient Residential's entire reason to exist — and the 30 mil Titan HD Plus Platinum at $6.79/sq ft is the value pick for it.

Where to go: Resilient Residential.

What You're NOT Getting From LVP, Either Collection

Luxury vinyl plank is not refinishable. The printed design layer is permanent — when the wear layer eventually wears through, the floor gets replaced, not sanded and recoated. For a formal living or dining room where you want a floor you can refinish decades from now, that's the case for real wood instead: engineered hardwood from Shaw or Anderson Tuftex is the right category, and we sell both. We don't sell solid hardwood or laminate — if a specialty solid-wood floor is what you're after, a hardwood-focused retailer is the better fit, and we'd rather tell you that than sell you the wrong thing.

And a note on cost the honest way: sticker price per square foot isn't the whole number. Freight ships straight from the manufacturer in Dalton, GA, and installation is its own line item — a floating click-lock floor is a realistic DIY job, while a glued-down floor generally isn't. Price the whole project — material, freight, and labor — before you decide the cheaper plank is actually the cheaper floor.

Final Word

The comparison that brought you here has a cleaner answer than it looks like it should.

• 5th and Main is commercial. It's a real, current Philadelphia Commercial line,^{Source 2} specified through a territory manager, with no published retail price. If it's on your project, that's who to call.
• Resilient Residential is residential. It's Shaw's homeowner catalog: $2.99–$8.19/sq ft, 6 to 30 mil, waterproof throughout, floating or glue, lifetime warranties on most styles — and it's what we stock.
• If you wanted the cheap Shaw floor, it's Endura Plus at $2.99/sq ft, and it's better than the price implies: 12 mil, attached pad, waterproof, lifetime warranty, DIY-installable.

Browse the full Shaw LVP catalog or the whole luxury vinyl plank category at FloorFreight, and dig into the wider lineup in our Shaw LVP buyer's guide. If you want to weigh Shaw against the brand that invented rigid-core LVP, our COREtec vs Shaw LVP comparison goes deep on that matchup, and our wear-layer explainer breaks down what 6, 20, and 30 mil actually mean for how long a floor lasts.

Prices here are each brand's manufacturer's advertised price (MAP). Lower prices may be available — request a quote by email. And before you commit, order a $5 sample: the difference between a 6 mil entry plank and a 20 mil floor is something you feel underfoot and see in your own light, not something a spec sheet settles. When you sign in at checkout, that $5 applies automatically as credit toward your full order (guests get $0), so seeing it in person costs you nothing in the end.