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What are the different types of floor coverings and their functions?All floors serve as walk areas. Design floor according to its use. Each type of the floor coverings have different use in the house.

The floor tiles are very easy to maintain. These floor tiles are mostly sold in square foot. They are available in plain, patterned, smooth and textured surfaces. Cork is one type of floor tiles that is warm and quiet but they are not durable.


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These cork tiles can be used to any room in the house. The vinyl floor tiles can be used in any room in the house but are mostly suited to kitchens and bathrooms because they withstand water. The marble floor tiles, ceramic tiles and quarry floor tiles are durable and are waterproof. These marble, ceramic and quarry tiles are mostly used in kitchens, halls and bathrooms.

Wood floor surfaces are attractive and smooth surfaces. Wood floors are very durable and are easy to maintain and clean. Wood flooring comes in either long cut woods or squares and blocks. Replacing wood floors require serious and hard work. Consider to check the woodfloors for rots and damages. If the investigation of the floorboards has resulted to a possibility of feasible use, then the floors just needs an affordable sanding, varnishing or repolishing, colorwash and stain scrubbed finish. A decaying, fractured or damaged or spoiled floors need replacing.

Carpets provide a warm comfortable and soundproof and they come in many kinds of colors, patterns and qualities to suit most areas in the house. Kinds of carpets are loop pile, sculptured pile, twist, carpet tiles, berber, hair and woolcord, velvet, standard short pile, foam-backed carpet and shag.

Sheet flooring is another type of floor coverings. They are most useful and functional in the kitchen and bathrooms because they are waterproof barriers, cheaper and less slippery than tiles. Examples of sheet flooring are sheet vinyl, rubber flooring and linoleum.

Rugs and matting are the alternatives for carpets. They are washable by hand or machine and movable. They are pieces of carpets to hide worn carpets. They are also decorative items to cover carpets or wood flooring.




The Picture Gallery

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The Home Accessories

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The Healthy House

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