How to Select Flooring Tile Materials for Your Rooms

When it’s time for repairing the floor due to scratch, falling off, crack, bulge or termite, the house owners not only want to replace the floor to be pleasant to look at but also to create a better house atmosphere. Nowadays, there’s a variety of home flooring materials generating different feelings and emotions based on materials used such as alternative materials for natural wood or stones to make a house warm and relaxing, or artificial marble to create a luxurious look which is solid, scratch-resistant, waterproof, and termite protection. Those are significant features that house owners should not overlook additional to material appearance. Let’s see some tips for selecting flooring materials to best match several rooms.

1.Bedroom

A bedroom is a room used for sleeping in and it needs privacy. Floor materials used for this room should be imitating nature or wooden materials such as genuine wood, laminate, rubberwood tile, parquet, as they bring a warm environment to the room, and their surface is soft and feet won’t get cold when touching.


2. Living Room

A Living room is a center for family gathering and welcoming guests to a wide variety of flooring materials that can be used to match the home interior style and preferable atmosphere. It’s recommended to use scratch-resistant, strong, durable, and easy cleaning materials because family members mostly spend time together in this room.


3. Kitchen

The kitchen is generally full of grease and easily gets dirty from cooking so it’s wise to choose materials that are easy-cleaning, waterproof, moistureproof, termite protection, and scratch-resistant. Recommended flooring tiles are ceramic, granite, etc.

4. Bathroom

Most people like to spend much time in the bathroom for their personal hygiene activities. Apart from using it as a washroom, some people use the bathroom for relaxing by soaking themself in a hot tub for body spa. Popular materials used for this room are tiles as they’re moisture resistant, have no fungus, and reduce filthy plaques. Flooring tiles should be a coarse surface to prevent slipping, and wall tiles should be shiny to reduce the accumulation of dirt.

Pros and Cons of flooring materials

Flooring materials

Pros

Cons

Ceramic tile

  • Available in a variety of colors and designs customized to your needs
  • Available in different sizes
  • Easy to buy at a reasonable price
  • Good moisture resistant
  • Scratch-resistant
  • Non-reusable
  • Easily slippery, cool surface

Laminate

  • Available in multiple designs
  • Can be taken out, demolished, and reassembled for reuse
  • Reasonable price
  • Easily install, quickly tiled
  • No need to adjust the surface before tiling
  • non-moisture resistant, water untouchable
  • Easily defect, non-crash resistant

Rubber tile

  • Available in a variety of colors and designs
  • Long-lasting
  • Can be soaked
  • Can be retiled if tiles fall off
  • Cheap price
  • Last 10 years
  • Scratches can appear from hard objects
  • Non-crash resistant

Granite tile

  • Solid, durable, scratchproof
  • Easily clean
  • Long-lasting
  • Can be tiled both internal and external task
  • Easily slippery, cool surface
  • Costly, only tile expert can handle the job

Natural stone

  • Natural look, neat, and elegant
  • Long-lasting
  • Cool surface, reduce heat
  • Look brand new once polished

  • Costly
  • Easy maintenance
  • Easily slippery
  • Hardly repair, a piece of tile must be replaced

Engineered wood

  • Look natural
  • Available in a variety of colors and designs
  • Separate tile can be replaced once defected
  • Rarely face problems like genuine wood such as, stretching, shrinking, twisting
  • Quite costly
  • Color polish can’t be made
  • Can’t be soaked

Solid wood

  • Look natural, elegant, valuable
  • Long-lasting
  • Color polish can often be made
  • Only defective tile can be removed and replaced
  • Costly
  • Can be destroyed by termite
  • Possibly stretch, shrink, twist or bend according to weather conditions
  • Can’t be soaked too long

Each type of flooring tile material has different features. Before selecting materials to match a particular room, it’s advised to study both positive and negative features of those materials to avoid using the wrong ones. Repairing and replacing tiles cost a lot of money and also annoy family members at times. If you aim to refresh your home by tiling or repairing the floor and need financial support, SCB Speedy Laon is here for you. Please see details at https://www.scb.co.th/th/personal-banking/loans/personal-loans/speedy-loan.html


Source :

https://www.infinitydesign.in.th

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