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Things to Consider When Choosing the Flooring for Your Home

submitted on 31 March 2018
Putting in new flooring adds to the value of your home when you choose to sell it later. Depending on how old the existing flooring is, replacing it with an improved flooring solution could well avoid further maintenance issues. As well as the pleasing new aesthetic when walking on your new floor, a replacement one provides the assurance that there’s nothing untoward with the existing floor, such as residue following mould removal or other hidden nasties that you cannot see. When it’s new, you know it’s perfect.

Here are some things to think about when deciding on which type of flooring to use in different parts of your home.

Your Lifestyle
We grant you that you don’t often associate lifestyle with flooring. However, it does have a bearing on which is the most appropriate flooring solution in different rooms in the home. When you have pets, you’ll want to think about the types of floors that will make sense. Is the cat pulling up the carpet one fibre at a time? Does the dog sometimes not get outside often enough and make a mess that needs cleaning up? In which case, wooden flooring with a protective veneer is going to be useful to clean up after them.

Similarly, when you have young kids in the home who run around a lot, one flooring type might be preferable to another. A softer landing on carpet for an accident-prone child who’s unsteady on their feet might be preferable over wooden floors. Vinyl flooring allows for fast wipe downs to clean up spills of food after a temper tantrum which is why this is a go-to solution in the kitchen area. When you’re considering lifestyle choices for flooring, this company has the experience necessary to make some helpful suggestions to take the guesswork out of making the best flooring decision.

Pricing and Budget
The cost per square metre is how things are measured in the UK now. Each type of flooring solution is priced up using the square metre cost, so it’s easy to compare prices before buying. One rule of thumb is that when the floor is strong/thicker or has a plush feeling when rolling your hand over it, it’ll be more expensive. It’s very much the case that you pay for quality with prices and get what you pay up for.

When it comes to your budget, you need to stick with it once you’ve set it. Get a good idea about the costs involved, set your budget, and then avoid moving much from that point. Floors can cost as much as you’re willing to pay, depending on how luxurious you wish to go. You might get a discount if you order in bulk or order when sales are on but be prepared to wait for delivery if it’s a special order or out of stock. Location, Location, Location
The location of the room makes a big difference for which floor type is the best option. Vinyl tiles are often used in bathrooms because the floor gets wet when people are climbing out of the shower or bath. Rather than soaking up the moisture in a carpet, which can create bacteria later, the water sits on the vinyl until it naturally evaporates, which is much better. Any laundry room or bathroom should have water-resistant flooring.

Not every room is so easy to decide on which floor makes the most sense. Certainly, in the living room, some people prefer carpet or a rug over a wooden flooring solution. As mentioned above, do consider lifestyle factors too with the location and the type of activity that happens in that space. Laminate wood flooring is often better than hardwood in some situations. When a couple is living in the home, it’s best to talk it over and discuss your options carefully.

Need for Maintenance
Different floor types require different amounts of care and attention. Carpets are relatively easy to clean as long as nothing too nasty is dropped on them. There are professional carpet steam cleaning options for newer carpets too. Wooden floors require polishing up and dealing with corners that break off. Tile floors work well, but the grout between the tiles gets dirty quickly – as people will see when looking at older bathrooms with tile walls – and this takes time to clean with the right cleaning solution and a toothbrush! Each flooring type needs different maintenance to keep it clean and increase its durability.

How Easy is the Installation?
The more customised you want the flooring to be, the longer it will take to install. When desirous of the best marble from Italy, this is often imported at great expense and takes forever to arrive. By contrast, using laminate flooring that locks together easily and is easily available requires about one day for a skilled team to install in a double room.

If you’re going to want a custom flooring solution or one that needs time to order, plan it in advance and place the order early. This is especially important if you’re renovating the whole room or a floor so that the flooring doesn’t hold up the rest of the work that’s ongoing.

Colour Choices
The more specific you are about the colour of the floors in a room, the more limited the choices become. While carpets come in virtually every colour in the rainbow, wooden floors clearly do not. There are certainly different wood shades depending on the variety of hardwood and the wood grain adds a certain appeal to the selection but being picky about floor colours restricts your flooring options. Depending on how difficult a time you have when choosing a floor, that could be a good thing or a bad thing! What Floor Level?
One consideration that often gets overlooked is what floor level requires the new flooring? The reason this does matter is that some upper floors are designed with more give to them underfoot. A mezzanine floor in a loft flat or second floor in a tiny house are two examples of this. With floor flexing, some floors like stone and fitted tiles don’t handle the movement well. It can cause them to break apart in some situations. In that type of upper floor, a carpeted floor might be best.

Best for Resale?
It’s worth thinking about how a future buyer will react to your flooring choice. This might seem a little odd as you want to choose the floor that matches your preference and have nothing that gets in the way of that. However, choosing something overly expensive, so colourful that it’s unsightly to most prospective buyers with conservative British tastes, or difficult to maintain will create a sticking point for an estate agent to overcome.

Just as how an estate agent would counsel you to use neutral colours for the paint on the walls, choosing appropriate flooring options that other people would expect to see avoids a headache later. With nicely done floors, it can add value to the home just as much as a crazy floor solution can detract from it when the potential buyer must add in the cost of replacing the floor with something sensible.

The Sub-Flooring
The current flooring often has an impact on the flooring that can replace it. Stripping out used carpets or damaged floors makes it easier to put in any floor type that you want. However, there are some restrictions too. When concrete slabs have previously been installed, then a laminate flooring solution is the one to go with. When finding a plywood sub-flooring solution, you’re in luck because virtually any flooring can lay over the top of that without a problem. So, find out what the sub-flooring currently is to know what your main flooring options really are.

How Will You Home Renovate or Upgrade Later?
You may find that you need new flooring because the carpet is getting threadbare and it won’t last another summer. In which case, you’re likely to rush headlong into finding a flooring solution and get it installed pronto. But steady on there because you should also think about how the space may change in the future. Will you be adding new furniture, blinds, a fireplace, cabinets or other decorative changes that will not suit the type of quick flooring you’re planning to have put in? Be sure to not go too cheap and choose a flooring type that will be visually or functionally incompatible with your future home renovations.

When you have the flooring installed, be sure to keep any spare flooring in a dry, safe place where it won’t get damaged. You never know when a plank of wood will get an accidental chip out of the corner or a floor tile will be damaged. Buying a replacement for a flooring solution you purchased years ago is never easy and sometimes impossible, so it pays to keep your spare bits safely in storage, just in case. Choosing the best flooring type for a room in your home isn’t difficult. But choose carefully because changing it for something else later is never easy or cheap, so it doesn’t help to be indecisive.

 







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