Laminate Flooring in Singapore Homes Today

Laminate flooring has been one of the popular floor options among home owners in Singapore today. It came into the market with a wide variety of designs and colors available for home owners to choose from. Home owners have more choices compare to limited selection of floor options such as parquet or ceramic tiles in the past. On top of that, laminate flooring is a more cost efficient investment.

Benefits of a Good Quality Laminate Flooring

1) Cost Efficient

Home owners does not need to invest a huge renovation budget on the flooring and yet could still beautifies the home with the wide designs range of the flooring.

2) Highly Scratch Resistant

Good quality laminate flooring has high levels of scratch resistant. This solves the common problem of parquet flooring. Scratches and dents caused by moving of heavy furniture and house pets are greatly reduced to minimum. 

3) Good Slip Resistant

Good quality laminate floors have high slip resistance; to enhance its slip resistant properties, home owners can have a chance to choose rough surface laminate flooring to smooth surfaced ones. 

4) Save Trees 

While laminate flooring is an artificial kind of flooring that emulates wood flooring or other types of natural flooring; furthermore good quality laminate flooring are produced in a environmentally friendly manner. Hence, it helps one to save trees.

5) Wide Variety of Designs

Before laminate floor came into the industry, home owners could either choose either oak or teak parquet. The same color tone and such. Hence, laminate flooring gets popular when it came into the industry with its wide range of colors and designs available for the home owners and designers at large.

However, despite the much benefits one would enjoy from laminate flooring, home owners also need to be prepared for some of its shortcomings.

1. Mass Production of Laminate Flooring

As demand rises recently, there is also an increasing of laminate flooring brands in the market in a short span of time. Some of the products may not be as good as others. Hence, the home owners may need do their due dilligence and to carefully select a good quality laminate flooring for their homes.

2. Water Issue

 Home owners may need that laminate flooring may face a common issue with regards to water. Hence, precaution against water from affecting the floorboard during the day to day activities is important; moreover, it is always advisable to choose a good quality laminate flooring product with high water resistant properties so that it would minimize the damage caused by water.

High end resilient flooring (HERF), a 100% waterproof and termite proof kind of flooring, has also recently becoming popular in Singapore as some home owners today are switching from their existing laminate flooring to this new type of flooring in the market.

In summary, due to the massive production of laminate flooring, it is always best for home owners to have a thorough knowledge on laminate flooring, do their due dilligence and research on the products as well as finding a credible flooring contractor. So that in this way, they could confidently rest assured of their beautiful piece of laminate flooring at home.