Choose floor or tile?
2008-08-25

                                                                                                                              Tile information                                                                                                          Chapter seventeen- choose floor or tile?

Each people who first face to decoration will meet a problem: what kind of material should I choose, floor or tile? On the one hand, the floor gives people a sense of comfort, price is also slightly cheaper in the mid-range and high-grade level. Simple construction and free installation are saving money. On the other hand, tile more conforms to the modern tense pace of life and better accesses to care. Tile is waterproof, corrosion resistance is better but maintenance cost is lower. To make a choice between the two, really is a difficult task. Here, we make a comparison between tile and floor, hope that will help you choose. 

Appearance With the hardwood floor, laminate Wood Floor, now the parquet floor available, the floor has more and more types and color. The nature color and texture of the floor enhance the decorative effect, more reflect a person's lifestyle. The tile is full of range and colors, specifications are different, which gives the designer a broad space for dressing up. Relatively speaking, the floor is weak in color and pattern choices, difficult to come up with special effects.

Performance Floor has innate advantages: natural wood textures are soft and warm, give us more comfortable sense. However, floor is easily affected on weather and humidity, need for regular maintenance. The floor is easy to deformation after immergence, release of formaldehyde, the service life is relatively short. Tile has a good abrasion resistance, moisture-proof, long life, rich colors, not deformed and easy cleaning, but too cold to give the ice-cold impression. Therefore, toilet and kitchen land are more suitable for bricks. For children and the elderly in the family, because of the inconvenience to the elderly and mischief and vivacity of the children, there often crop up some small incidents as tumble and grazing. Then choosing the decoration in the living room, tile is undoubtedly more harm to children and the elderly than floor. such personnel structure in families, we propose to choose the floor.

Construction Technology Construction of the floor is constant, has a unified technical standards. For tile, large tiles of high demand cost a little higher in laying, of course, the overall effect is much more better; small tiles are relatively in cost, but the overall effect is worse.

Environmental protection Among the floors, the hardwood floor is pure natural materials, basic no pollution. At present market, the majority of engineered wood floors not overstep the national standards in environmental performance. Laminate wood floor performances in formaldehyde, but the domestic brands are uneven and difficult to draw a conclusion. Tiles of the major environmental problems in the performance of radioactive material, at present, the formal brands are fair to middling. 

Prices The floor price is usually higher than tile’s, on the one hand, raw materials of the floor are relatively scarce, ceramic tiles are produced from artificial, so the hardwood floor is more valuable. In addition, the wooden floor installation is simple, dealers contained in the price of supporting material costs and construction labor costs, it can allow free installation. Common brands of ceramic tile prices are usually cheaper, almost half of the same grade of the floor, but the tiles in the luxury brands, the price is relatively high, and some are even higher than the floor. There is also a need supplementary material and labor costs for about 35-40yuan per square meter.

Maintenance In day-to-day care and maintenance, floor, it is much more complicated. But liquid floor wax to the floor for maintenance has gradually become simplified. Tiles are basic need no special care, day-to-day cleaning is not much stress, often as long as the mop to clean. Through the above comparisons, do you have a better understanding of the two decorative materials? Hope you have made your right choice.