Your Floors Are Important To Your Health

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What’s Under Your Feet Is More Important Than You Think

September 16, 2022by HOMEMAKERS Editor0 comments

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Everyone is aware of the strength, beauty, and longevity of hardwood flooring. However, many people are unaware of the numerous health advantages that laminate, vinyl or hardwood flooring may offer. Here are the top 3 advantages that vinyl, laminate and hardwood floors might have for your health.

Wooden Floors are Cleaner

Wooden laminate or hardwood floors are really simple to sanitise and maintain. Because of the nature of wood, once you’ve cleaned your floor, it is genuinely clean because it doesn’t harbour bacteria or unwanted odours. Dust and bacteria that cling to the deep fibres and build up over time cannot ever completely be removed from carpets.

Wooden Floors Are Hypo-allergenic

Since wood flooring and vinyl are simple to clean, the clean surface and lack of fibres that can retain bacterial mites give it a hypoallergenic status. With carpet, this is challenging since the fibres can harbour bacteria and allergens even after a thorough cleaning and vacuuming.

Any flooring that could contribute to the retention of dust should be given a second thought as allergies afflict as many as 30 to 40% of South Africans, and household dust is one of the primary offenders. Younger children and babies are more at risk since they spend so much time on the floor.

Wooden Floors Are Non-Toxic

Hardwood, vinyl or laminate flooring are the safest and least toxic flooring you can have. Other flooring, such as carpet, have proven to be harmful to pets and babies due to the toxic chemicals used within these materials creating poor air quality within your home. Whether you choose vinyl, laminate or hardwood floors, you’re assured that the safety of your loved ones takes precedence.

With this in mind, you’ll have to start looking for your perfect floor.

Simplifying Buying

Purchasing flooring can be a lengthy and overwhelming process. Extensive proprietary research shows the journey to purchase flooring takes 149 days on average from start to finish. This involves everything from initial thoughts and design planning to product research and ultimately, an in-store experience. Consumers spend most of this time doing research online, in the comfort of their own homes, making them more knowledgeable than ever when they visit the retailer.

Let’s Save You Some Time

We get that flooring is a far more invested decision to take than buying an appliance for example. You want to dream about what you desire, and even visualise it in your home.

There are hundreds of “room visualiser” apps on the various app stores. They do come with some limitations though, the better ones are not free, they do not show an accurate representation of the floor in question, and most are not designed for the South African market. Even worse, you might spend hours designing your perfect space only for it to conk out before you get to save your vision.

There really is no point in using an app, getting excited about a particular floor design, and then realising that it is not a product that is available in South Africa.

Finfloor To The Rescue!

Local is lekker. And there’s really no visualiser more lekker than Finfloor’s room visualiser. It’s specially crafted to make sure that your wooden floor selection process is pain-free and fun, actually delivers on your dreams. The best part is, that you don’t even need to download another app to your already overflowing phone. Finfloor’s visualiser is completely online, which means you can access it on a device of your choice.

Finfloor’s visualiser guides you through flooring options and shows you what the flooring will look like in your own home.

Peace of Mind

Once you’ve used Finfloor’s visualiser, you might still be on the fence since a picture on a screen is not always as convincing as holding the product in your hand.

No problem! Simply request a sample from Finfloor’s Distributor Page and you’ll have proof of your good taste in no time.

Finfloor’s visualiser also makes sure that you have the whole range of Finfloor options at your fingertips with real-time stock indicators. A great feature that prevents disappointment as it indicates the stock level of your chosen wooden floor. Not that it should be a problem, Finfloor prides itself on the amount of stock they keep.