You will be very happy when you have a new house, but you will start to worry about how to choose interior floors. Tile? Wooden flooring? Bamboo floor? In fact, it is not difficult to choose interior flooring, as long as you list your needs according to your own habits, and choose according to the characteristics of the different floors. Today we will introduce the advantages and disadvantages of these three products respectively.
Ceramic tile:
1. Advantages : For sure, the floor tiles do have good wear resistance, moisture resistance, tile is not easy to deform and easy to clean, and have a long service life. It can be used about 10-20 years. It requires little maintenance.
2. Disadvantages: However, ceramic tile’s comfort and thermal insulation are relatively poor, and the use area of tile is also limited. If you have kids, it is hard and slippery for them, and easy to hurt kids.
Wood floor
1. Advantages: The wooden floor is warm in winter and cool in summer. It has better toughness, lower hardness and better comfort than ceramic tiles. If underfloor heating is used, the wood flooring also retains better thermal insulation than ceramic tiles.
2. Disadvantages: Wood is an unsustainable resource, as solid wood floors all need more than 35 years old raw materials. And more than 100 countries sign the agreement to ban deforestation , wood floor will be fewer and fewer. The stability and moisture resistance of the timber floors are slightly poor. The wood floors are a bit troublesome in cleaning, especially the solid wood floors.
Bamboo flooring
Advantages:
1.Bamboo is a kind of renewable source, and grows so faster than wood, only need 4-5 years for harvest. Bamboo floor can supplied continuously. And The wear resistance is better than wooden floors.
2.The rate of shrinks and expands of bamboo floor is less than solid wood floors.
3.Bamboo flooring has been carbonized at high temperature and pressure to remove all nutrients,eggs and mold, so that it will not be moth-eaten and mildew, which can reduce asthma and allergies.
4.Bamboo floors have the characteristics of automatic regulator to maintain the temperature, it does not generate heat and release heat, so it is warm in winter and cool in summer, and long-term living with bamboo floors can reduce rheumatoid arthritis.
5. The bamboo floors has the functions of sound absorption, sound insulation, sound pressure reduction, and can short the residual sound time, which can reduce the noise.
Disadvantages: The stability and moisture resistance of the bamboo floors are slightly poor.
Now you know the respective characteristics of three products, is it much easier to choose the floor you want.
