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Choosing New Carpets or Flooring for Your Renovation Project
Flooring is one of those things that can dramatically change the look of a room, and it's therefore essential to choose the right sort of flooring to ensure your floors look good and last for many years.
A wide range of types of flooring are available, each with their own benefits and some suited to particular uses.
If you want more details on the best type of flooring for your needs, a flooring expert or a specialist flooring store should be able to help, however we cover some of the most popular floor coverings in this article, and their uses.
One of the most commonly used flooring coverings is carpet, and with so many types of carpeting to choose from, it's easy to see why it's so popular. As well as a wide range of colours, the pile length and material a carpet is made from can affect the texture and give a variety of options to choose from, from carpets made from wool to synthetic fibres, and berber or berber twist to velvet cut pile carpets. Another decision to make is the backing for your carpet - whether to choose foam or hessian; hessian backed carpets tend to last longer than a foam backed carpet, making them higher quality carpet options. Underlay, which can be purchased in a range of thicknesses, can be laid beneath a carpet and is a further way of increasing the length of time a carpet will last.
If you don't particularly like carpets or fancy something a bit different, there are many other types of flooring on offer. For starters, you may like to consider environmentally friendly sustainably sourced flooring materials, which are beginning to become a very popular flooring material as people try and reduce the impact of their properties and renovation projects and choose greener products, such as eco carpets made from sisal, seagrass or coir; paper flooring and bamboo for a sustainable wood flooring option. Large reclamation yards often carry stock of reclaimed flooring which can range from woodblock and parquet flooring to old original floorboards and terracotta or quarry tiles, so whatever age your property, you can use an eco friendly option to add character, whether you live in or are doing up a period property or want to add interest to a newer home.
If you've ruled out carpets, wooden flooring products is the next largest area to consider, from engineered wooden flooring to hard wood solid floors, laminates to parquet and woodblock. The cost per square metre of flooring is more likely to increase the higher the wood content of the flooring material, and that's why the increasing quality of laminate flooring is making them very popular as a cheaper option to real wood. All of the different sorts of wood and wood effect flooring can be found in a range of finishes, from light to dark stained oak to more exotic looking designs such as jatoba or tiger wood, and additional features such as a choice of thin or thick planks making up the design, and handscraped surfaces to create texture, laminate, real wood top layer, solid wood and engineered wood flooring really can suit most tastes.
Vinyl and plastic based flooring products are a popular choice when on a budget, and there's a good range of choice too, from lino to vinyl floor tiles or sheeting and cushion flooring. Another alternative, but similar, flooring product is rubber flooring which can be poured or laid as floor tiles, however all these types of flooring are hygienic and easy to keep clean whilst also being hard wearing, making them a popular choice for busy families and for laying in kitchens, bathrooms and utility rooms.
Whatever type of flooring you decide on, a carpet fitter or flooring expert in your area can meet your requirements by fitting your new flooring materials to add the finishing touch to your redecorating project.
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