Tiled Flooring Vs Bamboo Flooring

In order to give an warm, intimate, and modern look to your home, you need to choose the flooring that not only matches your interior décor, but also complements your lifestyle. Therefore, it is important that you choose a right floor for your home that meets your needs and adds beauty to your rooms at the same time. The following article aims to compare two popular types of flooring including factors such as style, design, eco-friendliness, durability, noise, cost, wear, fashion, elegance, warmth and cleaning.  Take a look and decide which type of flooring suits you best

Flooring is one of a few parts of your home which immediately grabs the attention of your visitors.  A perfect floor is one which not only adds a new feeling of warmth to your home, but is ecologically sound and manufactured in keeping with the international flooring standards. In this article we compare two popular types of flooring for a variety of factors such as sustainability, cleaning, maintenance, colour, style, wear, cost, elegance, durability and hardness.

Tiled Flooring:

The ease of cleaning and water resistant properties of tiles make them a good choice to install in the “wet areas” of your home such as laundry and bathroom. Similarly, the hardwearing surface of the tiles will continue to serve, for years, in high traffic areas. On the downside it could  also be argued that vast areas of tiles can be a bit stark and lacking in natural warmth.

There is a wide range of colours and textures available with tiles to complement any décor. They also frequently change their shapes and styles in relation to the recent trend or fashion. Therefore, you need to choose that style which doesn’t lose its charm and attraction due to the fickleness of the latest fashion.

The cost of tiles, as well as their installation is expensive, and tiles are very unforgiving, just drop a vase and see who comes out 2^nd best.

They are also prone to chipping and cracking and unless you have over ordered initially are almost impossible to replace. More importantly, installation of tiled flooring in your home doesn’t offer any advantage to the environment. In other words, tiled flooring doesn’t make a “Green Choice”.

Bamboo Flooring:

When it comes to the bamboo, its natural strength and hardness make it an ideal choice to install in the form of flooring in the high traffic areas of both residential buildings and commercial centres.

Bamboo flooring has a natural tendency to respond well to the high heals and heavy objects as well. Moreover, the moisture resistant attribute of the bamboo has played an important role in increasing its popularity because one can confidently install this type of flooring in a humid area.

Instead of giving your house a cold feel, the warmth and elegance of the bamboo continue to glorify your home with its natural colour. There are numerous distinct styles of the bamboo flooring and you can select a compressed, vertical or horizontal style. All these different types of styles cater for almost everyone’s needs; thus offering you a wide variety of the grain patterns and stripes’on the bamboo planks.

Another wonderful attribute of bamboo flooring is that it doesn’t lose its attraction due to a sudden change in a recent trend or fashion , just add a new rug, change the wall colour or  add some new furniture and you have an instant updated look.

Bamboo flooring is resistant to the attacks of termites and pathogens. Even in a humid area, you can hardly find any fungal or mould growth on the bamboo flooring.

Bamboo flooring makes an easy to clean and maintain option as well. Bamboo flooring scores high marks when it comes to cleanliness and health. It can be easily cleaned by using a micro fibre mop, a broom or a steam mop. Moreover, it is allergen free as it doesn’t make use of formaldehyde and other banned harmful chemicals in its manufacturing.

All you need to do is to mop or broom your floor twice a week to remove dirt, grit or dust. No need to scrub an ordinary steam mop will clean and shine the surface in just a couple of minutes.

Bamboo flooring mostly comes pre-finished and continues to serve its users for plenty of years without any need for re-sanding and re-finishing.

Furthermore, bamboo flooring is cheaper than traditional hardwood floorings and tiled flooring, and you can even install it on your own onto your sub-floor, and damaged planks can be replaced. Another attribute of bamboo flooring is that it is a scratch resistant choice and will retain its natural shinny and scratch-less look even in the presence of pets and children.

One quality of bamboo flooring which has helped reach its popularity even to western countries is its eco-friendliness.

Unlike tiled flooring, bamboo flooring makes a “Green Choice” due to the plenty of benefits it has to offer to our environment. Some of the bamboo varieties grow at an amazing rate of 2-3 feet a single day. As compared to hardwoods which may take a long time to reach maturity, a bamboo crop fully is fully grown in 3-4 years.

The short life cycle of bamboo ensures a high production rate, hence reducing the deforestation for the sake of wood. 

Bamboo also makes a highly renewable resource due to its amazing ability to replenish on its own. The extensive root system of bamboo helps in the formation of shoots after its harvest. Moreover, bamboo crop is denser that most hardwood trees and it helps reduce the harmful effects of greenhouse gases in the air. Bamboo plants also play an important role in the well-being of native animals as they provide them food and shelter.