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]]>First and foremost, you must know the pros and cons of each type of flooring material before deciding what type of flooring fits your lifestyle most. Talk to the sales representative about your expectation, building a good rapport is very important.
After all researches and talking to different flooring companies, you’re still confused with the 1001 types of vinyl available in the market? What else should you look out for?
You should make sure the product you are getting is safe and deliver what it claims. Ask for all certifications and test reports. Be certain that you are getting what was said to be. You want to give your loved ones a safe environment to live in.
Vinyl price can start from as low as $1.90 per square feet. This price is the most likely supply of material only. Are you getting what you see/hear – price vs design vs quality vs durability? Invest some time, make an effort to visit the showroom, look at the actual product, feel the quality, if it meets your expectation, you’ve probably found THE one.
Budget is important. But more importantly, is the person who is going to give you advise, explain the product and spend the next few days or months with you till your flooring job is complete.
This floor representative should be equipped with good knowledge of the different types of flooring materials, a sound technical skill on how and what to do to achieve your ideal theme and experienced enough to foresee and tackle the tricky situation.
Be it an established or newly set up company, there are customer orientated ones, there are sales figure orientated ones.
Apart from the points we’ve highlighted, there is one last but not least factor you should consider, TESTIMONIAL.
Existing customers are the best person to tell you if this company is the one you should award the job to. Every customer’s expectation and the floor’s condition are different. There won’t be 100% positive reviews but do make an effort to read up some reviews of the company that you are considering. The salesperson will only paint you the beautiful picture but the reviews from the customers are always the truth that you need to know.
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]]>The number one thing a working kitchen needs to have is a flooring that is highly water resistant. This will hence, make the flooring easy to wash and clean.
While washing or cleaning your kitchen flooring with soapy water, one thing to caution about is potentially slipping accidents. This is especially so when it comes to ceramic tiles. Eco resilient flooring is tested to be highly slip resistant, hence after the washing, you will still feel assured that slipping is minimised. This is therefore recommended for families with elderly parents who always do the cooking or laundry.
Touch wood, though there is no wood. Even if an unlikely scenario of slipping accident, the cushion effect of eco resilient flooring greatly reduce the impact of the fall. Therefore, it enhances safety at home.
Stubborn oil stains that gives you the headache of cleaning it away. No worries about it when you have eco resilient flooring.
Intense cooking cause one to feel very hot in the room. If the flooring is not a good insulator of heat like ceramic tiles, sometimes you may feel your feet being uncomfortable. As for eco resilient flooring which is highly heat resistant, you have no worries about uncomfortable feet.
Eco resilient flooring (ERF) has been tested to have high quality standards in terms of fire resistance such as the credible CE rating and other European (EN) standard test. Hence, such feature enhances safety at home. In the event of fire incident (touch many wood, please), fire spread will be greatly reduced with eco resilient flooring compared with non-quality vinyl or resilient flooring.
One reason to choose eco resilient flooring for your kitchen is because it is certified eco-friendly such that it has credible accreditation such as the Singapore Green Label. Certified eco-flooring products are tested based on stringent standards such as indoor air quality, composite of safety materials used to manufacture the product, VOC emission and formaldehyde emission rate. By installing certified eco friendly flooring products, one will therefore feel extra safe at home.
Hope you have a clear understanding of eco resilient flooring (ERF) and why is it different from most types of clickable resilient flooring in the market.
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]]>Dark Wood Coloured Flooring – it enhances a cosy design feel to your home living space. When mixed with light furnishing or walls, it will create a simple classic and modern design to your home.
Light Wood Designed Flooring – it gives your interior space a classic wood look. Light wood design blends very well with dark (or contrasting) coloured furnishing to make your home look neat and modern.
White Flooring – White coloured flooring contributes to a minimalist and spacious living interior. The more space you allocate to your flooring, the more spacious and ‘bigger’ it will look.
Black Flooring – Not very popular colour because black flooring is pretty restrictive when it comes to the overall interior design of the home. Unless you are a risk taker, we do not recommend you to choose black coloured flooring.
Grey Flooring – The best type of flooring colour in terms of matching designs with the furnishing and walls in definitely grey colour. It works best for both dark and light coloured furnishing, giving the home a unique and trendy feel.
As much as we want to decorate the home to the right design feel we wanted with our flooring, we do have to know that lighting plays a big part on changing the mood of the home as well as the design of the flooring.
Natural Lighting – Allow natural lighting into your home. Natural light, when it reflects on your flooring, will exude a natural spacious look to your entire home.
Yellow Lighting – These are also known as cosy lights. Its dim way of exposure on your flooring, adds a cosy and romantic feel to your entire living space. Best to install for your master bedroom.
LED Lights – One of the most cost saving lights today. LED lights can have a varied range of colour. Different colours exudes different design effects on your flooring. However, too many kinds of lighting colours may make your overall design look confusing and non-complement with your flooring. Therefore, it is important to stay with not more than 3 lighting colours.
White Lights – This is the most common and brightest lighting among the rest. White lights puts more emphasis on your flooring, walls and furnishing. Therefore, it fits well with any flooring colouring.
A Simple combination
From the article above, you will see that flooring and lighting are two inseparable components that blends and complements well with one another. Hence, choose your flooring and lighting wisely!
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]]>If you are looking to give your living space a dignified look without having to splurge on flooring, eco resilient flooring is a wonderful option. An affordable, long-lasting and popular option for environmentally savvy and design conscious homeowners, eco resilient flooring comes in many grades and colours for every homeowner’s needs and desires. Here are some design ideas how you can switch up your living space with eco resilient flooring.
#1. The minimalist look
Clean, clutter-free, seemingly spacious and neat, it is hard to go wrong with the minimalist look. Combining functionality and practicality with simplicity, the minimalist look is essentially the art of being able to live comfortably and aesthetically live with less.
#2. The industrial chic look
Industrial chic is an interior design style that marries aged, utilitarian design with worn textures of iron and wood to create a style that is rugged yet stunningly attractive. Start with a neutral colour palette (i.e. grey and white), and add in some warmth (i.e. browns, teak, mahogany) to your living space. The overall colour palette and look will reflect the colours and elements found in an industrial space.
#3. The rustic European look
There is something undeniably charming and irresistible about the rustic look of old 18th Century European homes. The cosy yet vintage-looking living room. The picturesque kitchen. The peaceful garden. For those who love their living spaces to exude both a sense of warmth and traditional homeliness, what could be more charming than the rustic European look?
#4. The elegant look
For the sophisticated and well-heeled urbanite who prides work, reading and wining as his or her pastimes, the elegant look is ideal. Not only does it reflect one’s classy taste, but also exudes a sense of elegance that is popular among the affluent community. From adding a fresh coat of paint to your walls and soft velvety pillows to crown moulding and teak coloured floors, these are some of the many ways you can beautify and add value to your living space. The Floor Gallery has an extensive range of eco resilient flooring in different shades of beige, brown and red, textures and thickness for all homeowners to choose from, there is something for everyone.
#5. The Modern Victorian look
Owning a Victorian-style home is a dream come true for most homeowners. Resplendent and elegant, it is the ideal home style and can potentially add value to your home. But owning a Victorian-style home comes with a hefty price tag only the well-heeled can afford. Unless you can afford to remodel your home, how about owning a modern Victorian-style home?
Like the classic Victorian-style, the modern Victorian-style is chock-full of character and do not require extensive remodelling to bring the nostalgic appeal of the bygone Victorian era into your living space. Creating a modern Victorian home can be achieved by carefully mixing both modern and Victorian styles together. Planning is needed to ensure that the final look and colour palette of your personal living space is well thought out, not simply mashed together. To make your living space look brighter and bigger, opt for a light colour palette (i.e. white, yellow, baby blue, lilac or pink) for your walls and furniture. Flooring-wise, we recommend you opt for a dark woody theme from our list of eco resilient flooring to add contrast to the subtle and light colours of your wall and furniture.
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]]>Here are some common characteristic of a click resilient flooring.
1) Waterproof
The flooring is usually 100 percent waterproof that make it suitable for wet areas such as the kitchen, basement and laundry area.
2) Termite Proof
As the flooring is inedible to termites, such termite proof flooring is therefore recommended to be installed in houses near forested areas.
3) High Slip Resistant
The flooring is highly slip resistant naturally; this enhances safety for the users when it is both installed in residential and commercial area.
4) Can be re-used over and over again.
The flooring for residential uses usually has a good lifetime warranty period and for commercial areas will be between 10 to 20 years. Home owners can bring the existing click resilient flooring to their new homes when moving houses. Thus, making this flooring easily re-usable.
5) Solid Feel on the Ground
When you drop a heavy load or walk over the click resilient flooring, there’ll be a solid feel and no hollow sound. This therefore gives a silent impact on the subfloor.
6) Wear Layer and Thickness
Good quality click resilient flooring usually has a 5mm thickness and a 0.5mm wear layer. The wear layer is usually covered with a coating for scratch resistant purposes. Consumers may need to know click resilient flooring is only scratch resistant but not scratchproof.
7) High impact resistance
To enhance safety at home or at the commercial premises, such click resilient flooring also has high impact resistance so as to cushion the effects from falling to minimise injury and enhances safety. Therefore, such type of flooring is highly suitable for homes with the elderly.
In summary, by understanding the different names of click resilient flooring, consumers will therefore be able to get the right type of click resilient flooring product for their premises at the best quality with a good and reasonable pricing.
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]]>Here are three other common benefits home owners can expect from resilient flooring in Singapore:
As the product is not made of wood or compressed wood, resilient flooring is naturally waterproof. Therefore such resilient flooring is often recommended for wet areas such as the kitchen, the laundry area, house basement, areas below air conditioners as well as the dry bathroom areas.
Another similar property for all resilient flooring products is their termite-proof feature. The flooring material is inedible for termites, and therefore good for home owners who are living near forested landed areas in Singapore.
The installation of resilient flooring products follow the surface contours of the sub-floor closely. What this means is that it does not create a hollow sound, but a silent subtle sound when stepped on.
Below are some other properties that differentiate a good quality resilient flooring from a normal quality resilient flooring.
A good quality click resilient flooring has at least a thickness of 5.0mm as well as a wear layer of 0.5mm. Such size and dimension contribute to a more solid feel for the flooring when stepped on.
All resilient flooring products are not scratch proof but the better quality ones have better scratch resistant properties. While home owners with pets can consider this flooring due to its easy maintenance and waterproof features, they have to know that such flooring is only scratch resistant. Good quality resilient flooring has a patented wear layer system to enhance the scratch resistant properties.
Good quality resilient flooring products are tested for high standards in terms of air quality. Therefore, home owners ought to look for resilient flooring products with accreditation such as FloorScore or other certifications in Singapore that certify better air quality standards.
Quality resilient flooring can be renewed and reused over and over again. This helps to save costs as well as create an eco renewable system for home owners. What this means is that home owners can bring along the resilient flooring when one changes property. Look for quality click resilient flooring with relevant eco labels.
Good quality click resilient flooring has relatively higher slip resistance as well as impact resistance. Therefore it enhances safety at home.
The Floor Gallery’s Eco Resilient Flooring has all the above properties of a good quality resilient flooring product, with a greater focus on eco friendliness in terms of the flooring’s production as well as usage. In summary, home owners have a wide variety of click resilient flooring choices to choose from in today’s market. Therefore, regardless of the numerous names given by flooring distributors on this type of flooring, it is important to choose the optimal quality of resilient flooring for their homes or commercial properties in Singapore.
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]]>1) Slip Resistance
All credible flooring products have to go through tests, one of it is the test for slip resistance. Good quality ones have relatively better slip resistance than most others.
2) Air Quality
Looking for credible flooring products that are tested and proven for better air quality standard. Responsible flooring manufacturers would make sure that the emission level of their flooring finished products are at the healthy level or zero level.
3) Eco quality credentials
Reputable flooring manufacturers would strive to go a step little further for their flooring brands by focusing its efforts on eco friendliness contribution. Natural wood flooring and decking products usually are easier to get eco credentials as wood are naturally eco friendly. The most tedious type of flooring that is able to attain eco quality credentials would be vinyl flooring or resilient flooring. However, it is still possible for resilient and vinyl flooring brands to focus more effort to make their flooring eco friendly.
In summary, getting a good quality indoor flooring or outdoor flooring for your residential home or commercial property can be easy or not easy. Therefore, it’ll be up to the owners to take his or her time to choose and select the best possible flooring contractor install high quality flooring products.
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