Beyond more traditional flooring options like timber and tile are linoleum and vinyl laminate flooring, both of which are shaking off their ‘cheap substitute’ handles and are entering the mainstream with new colours and styles. Some even mimick floorboards and tiles so successfully that you won’t realise it until you stand on it!

TYPES OF FLOORING

Every type of flooring has its pro’s and con’s. For example, carpet is certainly soft to walk on and provides warmth to a room, yet is the most difficult type of flooring to keep clean. And the older it is, the dustier it will become, regardless of how often or thoroughly it is vacuumed. Therefore, it may not be the best choice for asthmatics or those with respiratory conditions.

If you require an easy to clean, waterproof flooring for a kitchen, bathroom or other wet area the ceramic tiles are an excellent option. They are certainly hardwearing, however will not respond well to having heavy objects dropped on them! Of course, they are also cold to the touch and may provide visual warmth.

Then there are polished floorboards, which are perhaps the most beautiful flooring option, but will mark and scratch in normal foot traffic and require repolishing every 5 to 10 years.

Lastly, we come to resilient vinyl laminate flooring.

THE BENEFITS

If you’re looking for a flooring material that’s inexpensive, easy to clean and maintain and hardwearing then vinyl laminate flooring could be the perfect choice.

Vinyl laminate flooring is labeled ‘resilient’ because of its characteristic ‘bounce-back’ properties. This means that it will return to its normal shape after heavy objects have been moved off it.

You can find vinyl laminate in sheet or tile form, offering great flexibility for your flooring job, and advances in technology have led to greatly improved durability.

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