Your option of floor cover can significantly alter the overall look in some room, where soft surfaces such as carpet create a cosy and warm feel, wooden flooring give a natural but comtemporary sheen, not to mention the many modern materials like rubber and bamboo that have a truely individual look.
Tiles
Advantage:-
- Relatively easy to fit and keep clean
- Suitable for under-floor heating
- Waterproof
- Grouting can become stained
- Easily cracked by dropped objects
- Noisy
Carpet
Advantage:-
- Adds warmth and insulation
- Adds soundproofing
- Hides undulations in sub-floor surface
- Not easy to install
- Available in limited widths, making economical coverage difficult
- Harder to clean spills and marks
- Not recommended in bathrooms and kitchens
Wood Flooring
Advantage:-
- Warm, natural look
- Hygienic, Easy to clean
- Suitable for under-floor heating
- Relatively easy to install
- Solid wood is expensive
- Noisy
- Cannot expose to standing water
- Requires flat sub-floor
Vinyl Flooring
Advantage:-
- Highly durable and water resistant
- Relatively inexpensive
- Easy to install and keep clean
- Suitable for underfloor heating
- Will show undulations in sub-floor layer
The declare of vinyl can conjure memories of some pretty disastrous linoleum flooring from the 1960s. Though, vinyl is in fact is a completely distinct and improved kind of floor-covering.
Advances in textures and prints now offer a wide selection of both tiles and sheets that can do a compelling impression of wood and stone as well as patterned designs, to make a flexible and cost-effective flooring solution.
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