Are you bored with trying to clean, that worn out carpet, which is past it’s use by date?
If your Carpets looking exhausted, then you must give some thought to installing hardwood or laminated flooring .
Now the big question. “Which is better Timber Flooring or Laminate Flooring?”
Tony from Flooring Solutions is consistently asked this particular question .
He says it relies on what look your’e trying to realize .
Timber and laminate Flooring gives the appearance of a graceful modern look.
These are some of the questions Tony will ask you to help choose the right flooring solution.
– How much traffic does this area get?
– Where abouts in the house is the flooring to go?
– Do you have children and pets?
– What colours do you like?
– Are there any colours you want to enhance ?
– What do you have on your floors at present?
– What is your budget?
– Are you planning to install them your selves or do it you Flooring Solutions to lay your flooring.
If your’e looking for a dramatic lift, then Hardwood Flooring or Laminated Floors will add a trendy change to your home .
To help make the correct choice for your flooring solutions, let’s take a look at the advantages and drawbacks of timber flooring and laminate floors .
Timber Flooring
– Timber Flooring use to have a small range of timbers to select from, now you can have, Blackbutt, Blue Gum, Brushbox, Cypress Pine, Ironbark, Kempas, Jarrahh, Merbau, Spotted Gum, Tallowwood, Tassie Oak, Walnut
– If you are refurbishing and old house, then the chances of finding timber floors below when you rip up the old carpet are pretty high. These floors can be brought back to life, with a little bit of elbow grease(You must hire a Belt Sander, ensure the nails are flush, then you’d need to spray a 2 pac polyurethane coating)
– Timber flooring has numerous grades of wood. The factory sorts the timber into different grades dependent on the aesthetics of each piece. As timber is a natural product, it might not have a uniform colours and textures.
– It’s harder to install timber flooring than laying laminated floors, so most people come to a decision to have it professionally installed.
– Timber Flooring is surely more expensive than floor coverings like carpet and laminated floors . You must have a look at this as a long term investment. To help your make up one’s mind to invest in a Timber Flooring you must amortise the cost over 30 years period. In that time you would of replaced your carpets 2 to 3 times.
– With your timber flooring, when it starts showing wear, it can be sanded and re-lacquered to look as good as new.
– It’s often best to install Timbers Floors where there’s low humidity, when installing it recommended to leave Timber exposed to the rooms humidity for two days, to decrease the risk of warping
Laminated Floors
– Laminate Flooring is also know as Engineered Timber Flooring
– If you’re a do-it-yourselfer, then Laminated flooring is relativity simple to install, because most Laminated flooring systems utilize a click-together system that makes them simple to install.
– t’s less expensive to install laminate floors, but you will need Airstep Timberquiet to reduce noise
– Since laminate Flooring is made of composite timber material, laminated together, it has hard wearing top coat, which won’t have dents easily as Timber Flooring “So girls you can still wear your high heel stilettos”
– Cleaning a Laminated Floor, just like cleaning a vinyl floor, wash and dry mop. Don’t flood your floor with too much water as this is an enemy of all timber flooring.
– Laminated floors, like hardwood flooring the choices have grown considerably recently . You now have a range of plank widths available, as well as nearly any timber finish you can imagine, including many exotic species.
– Engineered timber flooring, is an adaptation of laminate flooring constructed of layering timber section like plywood and is finished with timber top surface. The top surfaces permits different finishes, for example distressed,rustic or hard scraped surfaces.
Which either way you go, Timber Flooring or Laminated Flooring will add a brand new dimension to your house .
If you need want help with your flooring on the Northern Beaches, then speak to Tony at Flooring Solutions.
Flooring Solutions – If you're looking for Carpets, Timber Flooring and Vinyl Flooring, then speak to Tony on 02 9939 7779 or come down to Flooring Solutions on the North Shore 3/24 Winbourne Road Brookvale NSW 2100
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