Which Flooring is best for New Home

Posted by Harry Miles on March 29th, 2019

Keep your home up-to-date starting with your floor. Use this guide to the hottest 2019 flooring trends and find durable, stylish flooring ideas that will stay trendy for years to come. The time has come! You’re ready to do that remodel you’ve always dreamed of or flip that house that’s been on the market for months. The thing is, we tend to get overwhelmed by choices, not knowing which option will look the best, stay in style and hold up to the use and abuse of your entire household.

1. Porcelain Tile:

A natural fit for high-traffic areas of the home, porcelain tile outperformed every other flooring material we tested for resistance to scratching and denting, says Joan Muratore, CR’s lead test engineer for flooring. Plus, porcelain tile comes in a range of styles to fit any décor. You can get small-format hex tiles for a traditional early-20th-century house, for example, or 4-foot faux reclaimed-ash planks that, when laid tightly ­together with a matching grout, will convincingly create the look of wood. Tile is also low-maintenance, never ­requiring more than a vacuuming and mopping, and it’ll last a lifetime.

2. Cork:

Cork is relatively new to the flooring world. It is usually seen on walls or in your favorite bottle of wine, but it is great material for floors.  Cork is harvested from the bark of the cork oak tree commonly found in the forests of the Mediterranean. The trees are not cut down to harvest the bark, which will grow back every three years, making it an ideal renewable source.  It has anti-microbial properties that reduce allergens in the home, is fire retardant, easy to maintain and acts as a natural insect repellent too. Cork, like wood can be finished in a variety of paints and stains to suit any color scheme or design style.  Its durability allows for uses in any part of the house.   Cork floors, depending on the quality, can last between 10-30 years.

3. Vinyl:

Vinyl is different material and type of "resilient" flooring. It comes in easy-to-install tiles, planks, and sheet forms. It is highly durable and moisture-resistant and come in a wide variety of colors and styles. Vinyl is good option for hard-working and high-traffic areas, including kitchens, dining areas, mudrooms, laundry rooms, basements, and bathrooms. Vinyl is plastic, usually PVC, acrylic, and similar polymers. Vinyl generally offers more style options and a wider price and quality range, from very low-end to premium. best vinyl flooring in UK can be bought from your tiles.

4. Bamboo:

Bamboo flooring is a renewable resource. Though technically a grass, its fibers can be conditioned to be as tough as the hardest woods, its tensile strength greater than many alloys of steel, and compressive tests greater than many mixes of concrete.

Bamboo flooring is relatively impact-resistant because of the forgiving nature of bamboo's cellular structure. Typically, bamboo comes as an engineered wood product, either in tiles or planks, similar to cork. As such, it generally comes pre-finished, though a few manufacturers provide the raw planks for the customer to stain and seal. It is recommended to buy pre-finished, however, as the manufacturers of bamboo flooring apply high-grade finishes in controlled environments.

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