The range of floor covering provided in hardware stores allows to implement the most daring design ideas. When choosing it is necessary to be guided not only esthetic type, but also practicality of covering.
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1. Floor coverings have various properties and are intended for different rooms. Some will be ideal for the bathroom or kitchen, others will be organic in premises. The most popular types of covering: linoleum, parquet, floor board, hardboard, laminate, bulk floors, carpet, ceramic tile.
2. Classics of floor covering – the wooden board, has indisputable merits: natural eco-friendly material; long life cycle; low price. But there are also shortcomings: cracks, slots appear; it is necessary to tint constantly. Is suitable for living rooms, verandah, balcony. It is possible to lay board independently.
3. Parquet – elite floor covering, make in the form of small boards, boards, tiles. Looks very beautifully, gives to the room respectability, but material expensive, whimsical, demands special care. In order that the parquet looked smartly, it is necessary to prepare the basis, it is correct to lay out the drawing, for its laying it is better to invite the master. As a rule, the parquet floor is done in the living room.
4. Linoleum – democratic type of covering, inexpensive, will be suitable for kitchen, corridor. At material selection pay attention to thickness, wear resistance class, heat conductivity. The covering is thicker, the will longer serve and indicators warm and is higher than sound insulation. Advantages of linoleum: easily keeps within, has esthetic appearance, simple leaving.
5. The popular type of covering − laminate − looks esthetically, wearproof. The goods have class which defines on what loading any given sample is calculated. Classes 21−23 are intended for normal rooms. Take out long contact with water, classes 31−33 are characterized by the increased wear resistance, they are used in corridor, in kitchen.
6. But nevertheless for the bathroom and kitchen ideal option − ceramic tile, it is necessary to select it according to classiness, also when choosing take an interest in availability of fungal impregnation and resistance to cleaning agents. The tile with high rate of moisture absorption will not be suitable for the bathroom. Do not take tile with glossy surface, scratches will be noticeable and it is easy to slip.
7. Bulk floor – the excellent decision for the nursery and kitchen. This polymeric covering, to the touch similar to the rubberized material. The shortcoming – long and labor-intensive process of creation of floors, but as a result turns out equal continuous covering at which damage it is possible to do pointed repair.