How To Choose Flooring Materials

Nowadays, there are many kinds of floor materials on the market. Many customers choose them when they look good. If they don’t look at the quality, they will regret it after using it for a long time. The following is an introduction to the advantages and disadvantages of various floor materials.

1. Solid wood flooring

Solid wood flooring is a floor that is directly processed from solid wood. The texture is natural, and it is a poor conductor of heat, which can play the role of warming in winter and cooling in summer. It has a comfortable foot feel, is environmentally friendly, has no radioactivity, does not contain formaldehyde, and has no harm to the human body. Durable, solid wood flooring is processed from a single piece of wood with a uniform thickness of 18 mm. This thickness ensures abrasion resistance.

Disadvantages: difficult to maintain, easy to arch, warp and deform when the indoor environment is too humid or dry; high price; poor stability, if you want to install solid wood flooring in your home, you must install the keel, because the stability of solid wood flooring is For the worse, in order to increase the stability in the process of using solid wood flooring, the installation needs to be keeled, and other artificial floors are not needed, just install it directly.

2. Laminate flooring

The base material of laminate flooring is made of multi-layer veneers, and the wood fibers are crisscrossed into a net-like stacking combination, so that the various internal stresses of the wood are adapted to each other between the laminates, ensuring the flatness and stability of the wood floor sex.

The price is relatively favorable. Due to its unique structure, the requirement of wood is not so high, and the material can be fully utilized, so the price of laminate flooring is much lower than that of solid wood flooring.

Easy to clean, laminate flooring does not embed dirt and is easy to clean. The surface of the floor is painted well and has good abrasion resistance, so it doesn't need to spend too much energy on maintenance.

Environmental protection, laminate flooring mostly uses adhesives with low formaldehyde emission, which is environmentally friendly.

Disadvantages: Insufficient comfort, fear of water and dampness. Once the laminate floor is exposed to water, if it is not wiped in time, it will easily cause foaming and deformation due to water swelling.

3. Parquet

The solid wood composite floor is made of interlaced laminates of different tree species, which overcomes the shortcomings of solid wood floor wet expansion and shrinkage to a certain extent. The dry shrinkage rate is small, and it has good dimensional stability. Natural wood grain and comfortable foot feel. The solid wood composite floor has both the stability of the reinforced floor and the aesthetics of the solid wood floor, and it has the advantage of environmental protection.

Easy to care and clean: simple care, bright as new, no dirt, easy to clean. The surface of the solid wood composite floor is painted well, has good abrasion resistance, and does not need to spend too much energy on maintenance.

Affordable price: Due to the unique structure of the solid wood composite floor, the requirements for wood are not so high, and the material can be fully utilized, so the price is much lower than that of the solid wood floor.

shortcoming:

1. The abrasion resistance is not as good as laminate flooring, and the thickness of multilayer laminate flooring is higher;

2. The price is high and the cost performance is not high. Compared with laminate flooring and multi-layer laminate flooring, the price is more expensive;

3. Due to the high process requirements, the structure is complex, the quality difference is large, and the internal quality is not easy to identify;

4. Although the environmental protection quality level of the glue is very high, the formaldehyde content is almost negligible, but it exists after all;