#1 Pros and Cons

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?

#2 Certificates and Test Reports

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.

#3 Value vs Quality

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.

#4 Knowledge & Experience

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.

#5 Testimonial

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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#1 Highly Water Resistant

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.

#2 Slip Resistant

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.

#3 Impact Resistant

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.

#4 Stain Resistant

Stubborn oil stains that gives you the headache of cleaning it away. No worries about it when you have eco resilient flooring.

#5 Heat Resistance

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.

#6 Fire Resistance

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.

#7 Certified Eco Friendly

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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“What are some of the safety properties of the flooring should we be looking at, if we have elderly at home then?” you may ask. Read on for the answer!

1. Slip Resistant

Water spillage or water pouring from the rain into the house, is something inevitable. This is especially true for the kitchen, service yard and toilet area. According to Health Promotion Board, a lot of injuries happened to elderly due to fall each year. Therefore, it is extremely important to have a flooring that is highly slip resistant. Also, look for a flooring that is impact resistant, so that in event that may not fully prevent falls, it may also help to cushion falls, lessening impact.

2. Easy to maintain

Very often, the younger ones are either out at work or in school. The cleaning is, sometimes, done and maintained by the elderly. Having an easy to maintain flooring will help them have an easier job. They need not need to scrub the floor hard, but just using their comfortable way of having a broom and a mop, they will feel the floor clean. Having an easy to maintain flooring may also help them to gain their confidence as they know these are simple chores they can help out at home, if they want to do, of course.

3. Comfortable

When we are buying shoes, we look for shoes that we are comfortable to walk in. The same goes for flooring. We need to be comfortable with the flooring that we are walking on as we are spending a lot of the time walking at home when we are home. What more about the elderly who could be at home more often than you do? Some flooring, such as concrete tiles, may not be good for health if we were to stand on them for long. People with morning sinus will not like to step on ceramic tiles or marbles in the morning too. Hence, look for a flooring that will not be cold during cold weather or hot in the hot afternoon.

4. Air Quality

Fresh clean air helps to improve our life quality. As much as we like to have clean air, we also need to understand that dust is everywhere. We can clean them, but some flooring, such as carpets, tend to trap dust easier than others. Dust and dust mites will cause problems to elderly, especially those with respiratory problems. Hence, it is vital to look for a flooring that is tested and proven for better indoor air quality standard.

Flooring may seem to be the easiest to go for in a house, but when safety for the elderly becomes a concern, you will realise there are many considerations you need to have. There is no perfect flooring for a safe house. Do consider what your priority are. Research well before committing and don’t forget to involve the elderly when choosing flooring as their comfort should also be taken into consideration!

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Durability

Ceramic flooring is quite durable, if you know how to take good care of it. It can last for about 50 years or more. However, a drop of heavy object on the tiles, may break the tiles..

On the other hand, eco resilient flooring has high in durability due to its extreme dimensional stability, thick protective wear layer and reasonable thickness. With these features, it is no wonder eco resilient flooring manufacturers are able to provide lifetime warranty for the product.

Installation

Installation of ceramic tiles will take a lot of time, At the end of the day, there will be a lot of mess after the installation too. It may also take longer time for the installation complete. This is partly because ceramic tiles requires the use of wet cement for installation.

Eco Resilient Flooring, on the other hand, can be completed faster compared to ceramic tiles. A typical four room BTO flat may take a few hours of installation. It is much fuss free and so much easier. Not to forget, it is pretty mess free too!

Replacement

You can easily walk into a tile shop to get a replacement of the broken tile and replace it yourself. However, if your tiles are installed long time back, you might have problems finding a replacement. You can consider it a new fashion or trend if you have a sudden patch of different tiles out of nowhere on your floor.

Eco Resilient Flooring, as mentioned previously, is covered under warranty for lifetime on residential properties. If there is any faulty parts on the flooring, you can always call up the flooring contractors again and they will be there to solve your problem with a replacement plank. Hence, no need to worry about having a out of place patch on the floor!

Maintenance

Both type of flooring are relatively easy to maintain. However, for the ceramic tiles, there is the grout area that you need to scrub. Grout is the part where the tiles are joined. It is normally the dirtiest part of the floor on ceramic tiles flooring. A lot of manual work is required, but not very often. Otherwise, to maintain both flooring, you will only need to sweep and mop the floor to maintain the cleanliness. For Eco Resilient Flooring (ERF), cleaning is so easy and completely fuss free.

Now that we have gone through the differences between the 2 types of flooring, we hope you have a clearer and better understanding of the two.

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Maintenance

What if I were to spill a cup of ribena onto your beloved carpet? You will definitely scream at me, yeah? Reason being that it is hard to clean spillage on the carpet. It may seep through and stain the carpet. Once stained, the carpet is very hard to clean. Due to the material of carpets, moisture can also be absorbed much easier on carpet. With moisture, mould can grow on the carpet. It will result in obvious sightings and make the carpet unsightly. It is highly recommended for a change of carpet every 5 to 10 years for hygiene reason. You won’t feel comfortable stepping on a carpet that is mouldy and dirty right?

Eco Resilient Flooring (ERF), on the other hand, has no such issue of mould and stain as it is stain resistant. Resilient flooring has no worries over moisture as it is waterproof. Hence, there is no worries about water spillage or water seeping into the flooring, resulting in undesirable consequences.

Installation

Carpet and Eco Resilient Flooring (ERF) are considered relatively to install. Carpet may take up more labour compared to resilient flooring as the flooring is mostly stapled and glued while resilient flooring is using a patented click system. In terms of safety, resilient flooring is safer as you do not need to worry about the exposed staple.

Replacement

Replacement of both flooring are similar. You are required to change only that particular “tile” that is faulty. There is no need to replace the whole flooring. However, you will need to be careful of the rusty staples, if any, when replacing a carpet flooring.

Design

Carpets color, depending on how it is manufactured, may appear to have more shades of one color. It may also have more colored compared to resilient flooring. However, in terms of the pattern, you will realise there is limitations. This is due to how carpets are manufactured.

Eco Resilient Flooring (ERF) may not appear to have as many shades of colors as carpets. Due to the manufacturing process and technology intervention, you realise you are lost for choices when it comes to pattern. You will be able to get designs as close as real stone or wood, something that carpet cannot provide.

Whether it is carpet or eco resilient flooring, both are able to provide you the different feel you are looking for in your residential or commercial properties.

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Flooring

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.

Lighting

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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Ease to install

You just got the key to your new house and cannot wait to move in. Yet, renovation has to complete. The flooring is one of the reasons for the long wait time for the renovation to be completed. Hence, having an ease to install flooring will help you to move into your love nest at the soonest possible.

Highly Slip Resistant

Watery and slippery floor is, sometimes, inevitable in a kitchen. We tend to wash the kitchen, wash the utensils, and we may leave traces of water behind. Hence, kitchen is known to be one of the most dangerous place in your home, beside the bathroom. Having a slip resistant flooring will make your kitchen safer for all of your family member, be it young or old, alike.

Ease to Maintain

Kitchen, a place where oil stained are easily found, especially if you do not clean the area after cooking. It is a high maintenance area in the house. Therefore, for any family, to have an easy to maintain flooring will help. Lesser time spent on cleaning also equates to more time spent enjoying the good food you just created in the kitchen with your family.

Highly waterproof

Everyone would want to have a flooring that last. Having a highly waterproof flooring will ensure that your flooring is in good condition as no water can slip through to the base. Having this in mind, it also means there is no chance of having mouldy floor. This is critical to areas like the kitchen, as that is where food of all types are handled.

After listing down the characteristics and the reasons, we highly recommended Eco Resilient Flooring (ERF) as the recommended kitchen flooring. Besides the listed reasons, Eco Resilient Flooring is also Eco Friendly. Eco Resilient Flooring is one of the fewest clickable resilient flooring products that has been awarded The Singapore Green Label. Hence, Who would not want such flooring with so much benefits?

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Renovating House? Sure or not?

In the lingo of the renovation industry (this applies to the flooring industry as well), it is our ‘lao’ (off-peak) season. This is because it is a common taboo to carry out housing renovations during the lunar 7th month. This is because renovations during the lunar 7th month may cause obstructions that “hurt” the spirits and cause bad luck.

Rather than avoiding renovations completely, experienced renovation contractors will usually perform a simple ritual and offer incense to the spirits to prevent bad luck from happening. Sort of like asking them for permission to renovate the house, yeah?

But… What Does It Have Do With Flooring?

The good thing about installing flooring products like Eco Resilient Flooring (ERF) or click vinyl flooring, is that the flooring installation can be completed within a few hours during the day. Furthermore, it can be done without causing any noise disturbances because the flooring can simply be installed over the existing sub-floor without any hacking of tiles, drilling and wet works. Hence, it is fast and easy! Of course, flooring installers can do a simple ritual to please the spirits at the request of home owners.

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Hint: Best Period For Flooring Installation

As mentioned above, the 7th lunar month is usually the off-peak period for the renovation and flooring industry. What this means for you, as the lucky customer, is that your contractor will have more time to take care of your renovation and flooring needs, ensuring greater service and quality!

Fun Facts: Common Taboos of the Hungry Ghost Month

#1 Don’t Stay Up Too Late at Night
Stay at home and spend more time with your family and the floor!

#2 Don’t go swimming
Build a beautiful balcony deck at home!

#3 If you feel sudden coldness, remain calm
Flooring like eco resilient flooring (ERF), vinyl flooring and wood flooring keeps your feet warm and comfy when the weather is chillingly cold.

#4 Don’t talk about ghosts or say you smelled something
Talk about other things, like your brand new stylish flooring or decking!

#5 Avoid hanging wet clothes out at night
With the 100% waterproof properties of eco resilient flooring (ERF), you don’t have to worry about getting your floor wet from hanging clothes indoors.

There is a common saying, “whether the taboo is true or not, it is always good to believe and follow the advice.” However, if there’s a solution to the taboo, why not try a different way of doing things?

Let’s take the opportunity of the Lunar 7th month as a way to pay our respects to our deceased ancestors, relatives and friends. As for our non-Chinese friends from other races and culture, thank you for your understanding and respect during this annual period!

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Here are the reasons why.

Antibacterial Properties

Grand Oak White Design

For health conscious homeowners, this is the first thing to look at. Its antibacterial properties made it recommended for clinics, childcare centres and hospitals too. Have your children ever drop morsels of food on the floor, pick it up and then eat them? Or have you ever sleeps on the floor? Do you know that there are millions of germs and bacteria on the flooring if it is not cleaned and maintained thoroughly? The anti-bacterial layer on the Eco Protect Resilient Flooring creates a protection layer that kills germs and bacteria. Therefore, it is recommended for families especially when they have family members with skin sensitivities and allergies.

Heat Resistance

Eco Protect Resilient Flooring is best recommended for kitchen due to its heat resistant properties too.

Unlike ceramic tiles, Eco Protect Resilient Flooring has better heat resistance and hence creates a comfy effect on the feet. When the weather outside is cool, you will not be afraid of getting cold feet that may lead to rheumatism especially for the elderly. When the outside weather is warm, your feet will feel comfortable as well!

Impact Resistance

Eco Protect Resilient Flooring has a built-in softer layer on top of its core, which helps to lessen the impact when a person falls. Hence, it is highly recommended for families with elderly and children.

Slip Resistance

European Oak Golden Design

The high slip resistance for Eco Protect Resilient Flooring makes it a safe flooring product whether in homes or public areas. Its grooved surface enhances its slip resistance thereby ensuring extra safety at home.

Eco Friendly

Western Oak Grey Design

Eco Protect Resilient Flooring had been awarded, Singapore Green Label certification SGBC 4 ticks in 2018, this is one of the highest standard in the eco friendly products category for flooring products in Singapore and Southeast Asia. An important criteria for Eco Protect Resilient Flooring is the use of safe non-toxic materials in the manufacturing of the product. This important criteria is something that not all resilient flooring or conventional vinyl flooring products have. Hence, it is important for homeowners, before they make their decisions on the flooring purchase, to ask for test reports or certification from the flooring contractors with regards to the use of safe materials in the manufacturing of the product.

Better Air Quality

Mountain Oak Grey Design

Eco Protect Resilient Flooring had passed the credible French VOC Regulation with A+ standard and be awarded the Indoor Air Comfort Gold. What it means to homeowners is that it helps to ensure we are breathing in better quality air within enclosed air-conditioned areas.

Better Durability

Grand Oak White Design

With high scratch resistance and dimensional stability, Eco Protect Resilient Flooring is hence a very durable flooring for your home. This will ensure a long lasting effect and cost efficiency on your flooring renovation.

In summary, Eco Protect Resilient Flooring is definitely a flooring product that is highly recommended for homes with elderly, children or pets or people who are safety and health-conscious. Click here for product enquiries.

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#1 Waterproof

Grey Trend Design

One key feature of ERF flooring is that it is waterproof. Hence, this flooring can be washed and mopped ample times without worrying about water seeping between the gaps of the flooring. Its waterproof feature makes it a strong substitute to laminate flooring which is not resistant enough towards water. Therefore, eco resilient flooring is highly recommended for the kitchen!

#2 Certified Eco Friendly

Euro Oak Design

Another key feature of eco resilient flooring (ERF) is certified eco friendly friendly. Hence, it makes ERF a strong substitute to most clickable resilient flooring products which are not certified eco friendly. Its eco friendly certification is mainly based on two areas; the material of the flooring and the indoor air quality in enclosed areas when the flooring is being installed.

#3 Slip Resistant

ERF tiles – Anthracite Design

Safety at home is one great consideration when deciding on which flooring to install. One flooring feature you may have to look at the slip resistance of the flooring. Eco resilient flooring (ERF) is highly slip resistant, thus ensuring safety at home by preventing possible falls due to wet floors.

#4 Fire Resistant

ERF – Red Root Design

Another important feature especially for kitchen flooring is its fire resistant properties. Make sure that your flooring is tested and certified for fire resistance. Eco resilient flooring (ERF) is a certified fire resistant flooring product, hence it will double ensure safety at the kitchen.

#5 Heat Resistant

Grey Trend Design

Eco resilient flooring (ERF) is also highly heat resistant which means that heat from the cooking will not be trapped in the flooring. Hence, with ERF flooring, you feet will comfortable on the kitchen flooring. Moreover, compare to stones and ceramic tiles which can be cold at times during cool weather, ERF keeps your feet comfy at all times whether the weather is cold or hot.

#6 Stain Resistant

ERF – White Sawn Design

If you cooks regularly, one of the toughest stains you will need to wash and remove is the oil stain. Eco resilient flooring (ERF) is also highly stain resistant. Therefore you need not worry about oil stain on the flooring. All you need is to wash and clean immediately after cooking, so that the flooring will be sparkling clean!

#7 Easy to Clean and Maintain

ERF Tiles – Cool Cement Design

Eco resilient flooring (ERF) is also easy to clean and maintain, you do not need any special cleaning solvent, wax or oil to maintain the flooring. Just simply wash and clean with soapy water, and that is good enough!

So there you have, the 7 features why Eco Resilient Flooring (ERF) is highly recommended for kitchen flooring! For more information on ERF, please click here.

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