3 Simple Things to Look At When Selecting a Good Kitchen Flooring

A kitchen is an important part at the home, this is where your "chef" works on those beautiful home-cooked cuisines for all the family members and guests at home. Since the kitchen is so important, selecting a good quality kitchen flooring is of course, significant to the home owner. The question is, what are the things to look for when selecting a good kitchen floor?

Here are 3 simple ways:

1. Ask the Chef at Home

Deciding on a suitable flooring for the kitchen is not difficult at all. Just like buying a musical instrument, a musician will know what to buy; likewise, buying your kitchen flooring that will last long and good to maintain, you will need to ask your chef at home. 

Choosing of kitchen flooring materials really depends on the lifestyle of the home owners. What kind of cooking are they doing each day? Do you almost every day cook heavily, or simply just do some light cooking such as toasting or micro-waving that does not requires too much oil and gas?

Especially, if we focus on today’s working adults, where both the husband and wife work all day and whom most of them have their meals settled outside, giving them no time to do the cooking; in this way, any type of kitchen flooring will be suitable for this kind of lifestyle. The motive of deciding on a type of flooring for the kitchen will therefore really depends on the taste or designs the home chef wants for the entire home.

If the owner does heavy cooking, which requires washing thereafter; ceramic, stone tiles as well as high end resilient flooring are recommended.  Hence, you may need to ask your ‘master chef’ on what kind of flooring materials is suitable for his or her cooking style.

2. Features of Product

When selecting a typical kitchen flooring material, some of the features you may look at are namely;

Durability

In terms of durability, probably you may have to see how strong the flooring is when it comes to withstanding heavy weights and strong walking traffic. On top of that, ask the vendor, if the flooring is also able to withstand heavy temperature and humidity especially when your chef is a heavy cooking lover.

High Resistance to Water

If your kitchen requires a certain amount of washing each day, you may want to look at the flooring feature that has a high level of water resistance. Always ask the vendor on what kind of washing method or what type of cleaning equipment is suitable for the kind flooring you have selected.

Easy removal of stains

Stubborn oil stains, food crumbs and such on the floor, can be a big headache when you cook almost every day at home. You may need to find out whether you can easily remove such oil stains on the flooring material you have selected.

Slip Resistant

Accidents may happen at home if the flooring is too slippery especially when you are not able to control the kids who run around wildly around the home. Hence, you need to choose one flooring that has perfect slip resistant properties.

Product Warranty

You may need to select one with a decent period of product warranty, typically about 5 to 10 years of warranty is recommended. Ask the vendor what does the warranty covers so that you may have a peace of mind after the installation.

3. Reputable Flooring Contractor with Good Support Team

Most importantly of all, is to engage a reputable and credible flooring contractor in your region; whether the contractor has a very good support team in terms of their flooring operations. This is because, due to wear and tear or lack of maintenance of your kitchen flooring; at times, you may also feedback to your flooring contractor, who would provide you with the required maintenance support or repair work if needed. Therefore, always look for a flooring contractor that is stable, responsible and willing to help you should any flooring issues occur. 

Having a better understanding in your kitchen flooring selection, can definitely and eventually makes your kitchen a better, safer and chef-friendly environment.

(Some parts of this article is first published on Feb 2012 Issue of SquareRooms Magazine)