Flooring the Eco Way!

Eco flooring helps to lift up the living lifestyle at home in many ways; today, flooring is no longer a floor and that is it. It comes in various designs, colours and patterns while at the same time, taking into consideration the environmental impact as well. 

Other than being environment friendly, Eco flooring also benefits the health and safety aspects of the home users too.

Here are three common types of Eco flooring options available in Singapore today.

Good Quality Laminate Flooring

Laminate flooring are cost effective and the home owner can choose from a wide range of colours and designs for their homes. Instead of going full out in investment dollars and sources for a full solid wood parquet flooring, home owners can have laminate flooring without 'burning' the pocket. 

Good quality laminate flooring are manufactured in an environmentally responsible way using compressed wood instead of solid wood strips. Not only that, the good ones have good safety and health standards such as low in VOCs and better slip resistance too. One common worry is perhaps, like wood flooring, laminate flooring is not a hundred percent waterproof; but proper maintenance should be able to help to make the laminate flooring lasts for as long as possible.

Authentic High End Resilient Flooring (HERF)

High end resilient flooring (HERF) is the latest type of indoor flooring technology in the market. It went into the market as the strong substitute to traditional laminate flooring and wood parquet due to its hundred percent waterproof feature; because of that, the flooring is suitable for almost all types of indoor living spaces such as the living hall, bedrooms, stairs and even the wet kitchen and sanitary areas where the moist condition is relatively higher.

One of its environmental benefits is that, HERF can be re-used over and over again. This makes the flooring much more cost effective especially in the longer run. Where the owner can, upon moving houses, can "bring along" his or her existing HERF flooring boards to the new home. Just like good quality laminate flooring, authentic HERF also has good health and safety standards. One of the most important health standard criteria home owners should look into, will be whether the flooring has passed the test for VOCs and Formaldehyde. However, HERF is still not advisable to be installed in open outdoor areas such as the balcony or the backyard, this is because direct sunlight might cause colour changes in the longer run.

Tropical Engineered Wood Flooring

Well, the above-mentioned Eco flooring options are considered non-wood materials; for lovers of real wood, tropical engineered wood flooring might be the recommended choice for them. Make of layers of real wood, tropical engineered wood flooring are usually manufactured from responsible factories that sources their raw wood materials from sustainable forests in the world.

Engineered wood flooring gives the home owners the feel and touch of solid wood at a fraction of the renovation investment if they were to install solid wood. On top of that, the home owners can have much more real wood designs from engineered wood flooring. Tropical engineered wood flooring also comes in various sizes, long or short, wide or narrow. Unlike solid wood parquet where shapes and sizes are often limited. Furthermore, engineered wood products have warranty period endorsed by the manufacturer thus giving the home owners much peace of mind.

Eco Flooring Might be the next 'IN' thing!

As society improves and people are adopting new lifestyles in many areas. Where home living is concerned, Eco flooring might be one of the options that will come into mind eventually. So, have you been "Flooring the Eco Way"?