"Party-Proof" Flooring Options in Singapore

As Christmas and New Year is around the corner, things you can't avoid in celebrations and parties like red wine spills, oily crushed potato chips, food crumbs, battering of high heel shoes might give your poor old flooring some kind of punishments. This article will show you four types of flooring options that works best with party-goers. 

Before that, you got to understand the 2Ds and 3Ss forms of punishments the flooring may need to go through during parties.

Forms of Flooring Punishments

Dirts

Potato crisps, food crumbs, dirt and dust particles from shoes or simply litter that are ‘cleverly’ disposed away from your view, by your guests. 

Dents

High heels are usually one of the main causes for flooring dents due to consistent pressurized weight on the floor, especially in a very high concentrated human traffic space. Dropping of sharp heavy objects accidentally may also cause dents to occur.

Spills

Water spills are sometimes unavoidable in parties. Fruit punches, red wine, champagne, milk?, dry whiskey or whatever cocktail you named it can be the cause of such water spills. Try not to leave the spills standing on the floor for too long so that the water will not seep underneath the board causing damage to the floorboard especially if you are using parquet, carpets or laminate flooring. Spills on floor may also has the potential to cause slipping accidents as well.

Scratches

Especially on the flooring surfaces, scratches are mainly caused by dragging of shoes, sharp toe nails, dragging of chairs and such.

Stains

Red wine spills, lipstick, blood? (do not panic when this happens), or perhaps mud stains on the flooring especially in rainy days may cause stains to occur on the floor. Standby recommended cleaning solutions when these happen.

"If you do a lot of entertaining, it is wise not to skimp on your choice of flooring. Hence above all, look for durability and washability."

said Jacky Tan, Senior Marketing PR Manager for Evorich Flooring Group

Hence, in terms of durability and washability, these are 4 good types of flooring that recommended for partying.

1. High End Resilient Flooring (HERF)

High end resilient flooring (HERF) – should be considered as the most recommended type of flooring. The flooring is 100% waterproof so you can rest assured about the washing part. HERF is also durable, highly resistant to heavy traffic impact as well as slipping. Moreover, HERF has beautiful wood like surfaces that creates that luxury and cosy atmosphere at home to wow your guest. When stepped on, HERF creates a comfortable and solid feel for the feet.

2. Laminate Flooring

Laminate flooring provides a wide array of design and colours that place you home uniquely different from the rest. It has also high resistance to slipping, scratch, stain as well as heavy impact. However, in terms water spills, always take extra caution on this by not letting the spillage to left standing on the floor for too long. This is because laminate flooring is water resistant and not waterproof.

3. Wood Flooring

Wood flooring brings about luxury and comfort for you and your guests. Of course, not so recommended for wild dance parties with all the jumping and stomping on the floor. But it is good for high end tea parties, luncheon, wedding engagement functions where guests are perhaps “more behaved.” Some unavoidable party problems about wood floors are scratches and dents. However, using of good quality engineered wood flooring materials helps. Wood floor can be re-varnished into a fresh look again after some time. Hence it is considered as one of the recommended floors.

4. Accoya® wood 

Accoya® wood is often recommended if you want to hold parties in your alfresco area such as your rooftop garden. This is because Accoya® is very strong and durable and it gives a clean natural wood look for your outdoors.

Hence, for home owners like you who are thinking to throw a massive party in your home this holiday season,  you could follow these tips to prepare your flooring to make it more stain resistant and slip resistant.

i)             Use good flooring products of good quality that has properties such as stain resistant and slip resistant. In case of slipping, good quality flooring will also adds a cushioning effect on the fall thereby minimizing injury from fall.

ii)            Standby recommended cleaning solutions as well as dry cloth and rectifies situations such as stains and spillage quickly.

iii)           Put rugs on high walk in traffic areas especially near the entrances to minimize dents. Rugs can also beautifies your home with its stylish designs.

iv)           Avoid flooring that is not very resistant to slipping at all times.

One last parting advice,

In summary, get a good party-proof flooring for your home, put some preventive measures in advance against the 2Ds and 3Ss of flooring punishments in parties and then, put on your dancing shoes!  

(This article is first published on @Home Magazine Issue No. 5 by the Home Fix Group)