Guest Blogger: How to Choose Resilient Flooring for your Busy Home

Guest Blogger #344, Entry #917, January 24, 2012

When it comes to choosing the right flooring solution for your home, there are many factors that need to be considered for arriving at the right solution. This includes the kind of room for which the flooring needs to be made. One will have a different type of flooring for a kitchen when compared to bathroom and the living room. The characteristics of the usage of the room play a great role in selecting the right type of flooring.

Concrete flooring maybe the ideal choice for your home

Choosing rooms for hard wearing flooring

There are a few rooms that require hard wearing flooring installations. This includes the garage, patio and to some extent the kitchen. These rooms are termed hard wearing as they need to withstand the impact of the material and the tools that are stored in those rooms. Flooring specialists usually advise hard wearing flooring material for these rooms.

Materials

There are materials that fall in to the category of hard wearing that can be used as a hard wearing flooring material. This includes natural stone flooring, resin flooring and concrete flooring. Natural stone is one of the hardest materials that are available for flooring purposes. There are actually different types of natural stone material such as the sandstone, slate and granite that can be considered as a flooring material.

This natural stone flooring material lasts a life time and is capable of withstanding even the maximum amount of stress. The only disadvantage with this type of flooring is the cost associated in purchasing it. There are also other versions of the natural stone flooring, often called as the reconstituted stone, which combines small portion of a natural stone with concrete. It gives the same amount of hard wearing capacity as a natural stone and costs only a fraction of it.

Hard wearing flooring comes in many materials

Patios and Garages

Patios and garages are the ideal rooms where one could go for these natural stone and reconstituted stone flooring. Another option that is available is a brick flooring which is also hard wearing and is available in a range of colors and finishes. Concrete flooring is another economical option that can be considered and works out to be cheaper than natural stone and brick flooring. They are also readily available and can be easily installed with relatively inexperienced resources. In areas like kitchen one could try out Epoxy resin flooring to give that modern sophisticated look and at the same time provide the required property to withstand high impact and pressure. They also have the adaptability to withstand different type of weather conditions including rain, snow and extreme heat.

Mark Gregory recommends Rivendell Carpets, who offer wood flooring bristol and laminate flooring bristol.

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