Platform Flooring For Your Home

Platform flooring helps to improve the overall ambiance and outlook of your home interior space. A platform floor provides height elevation, acts as a divider and also helps to optimizes spaces for the home owners. Sometimes, a platform could also act as a storage to store bulky items such as books and magazine so as to make your room looks neater and cleaner.

Due to the additional height incurred by the platform base, flooring boards with thinner thickness are usually popular options as platform flooring materials.

Two of the most common types platform flooring products are:

1) Laminate Flooring (8mm to 12mm thickness)

Due to its light weightedness, large availability of colour and designs and also being more cost effective, laminate floor is commonly used for platform flooring. Home owners and designers has a wide variety of wood alike designs of laminate wood floor to choose for the platforms.

8mm laminate floorboards are usually popular among home owners who are doing platform.

However, as laminate flooring is installed in a floating fashion, the subfloor which is the platform base needs to be flat and stable. Thereby, it is important to engage a reliable flooring contractor or carpenter to do the job. Moreover, as laminate flooring is water resistant, care is to be constantly be applied to avoid standing water (especially from the rain) from getting in.

2) High End Resilient Flooring (5mm thickness)

High end resilient flooring (HERF) is also quite popular among home owners in Singapore due to its 100% waterproof feature that will help to prevent water seeping from the surface. Moreover, the 5mm thickness for HERF is just nice in terms of overall height of the platform. Further the solid rubbery base of the flooring will make the entire flooring installed firmly onto the platform.

HERF also have embossed wood textures that make your platform flooring looks very much like real wood too.

Platforms are good to build in living rooms as it helps to divide the living hall into two separate spaces. The living hall and the familiy or play room; adding that "wow" factors for your guests. A platform in the bedroom also gives your intimate spaces a different point of living experience.