SHOULD I CHOOSE WOOD OR CERAMIC TILES FOR MY FLOOR?
When building or renovating a home, choosing a flooring material is one of the most important decisions. The two most popular options today are wood flooring and ceramic tile. Each has its own advantages and disadvantages, and the right choice depends on your family's needs and preferences. Here is a detailed comparison between the two materials.
1. Outstanding features of wooden floors and ceramic tile floors
1.1 Characteristics of wooden floors
If in the past most homeowners mainly used ceramic tiles, in recent years wooden floors have gradually "taken the throne" and dominated the market. The advantage of wooden floors is that there are many diverse designs, rich colors that bring a luxurious beauty, close to nature.
On the wooden floor market, there are many different prices from cheap to high-end with relatively affordable prices for you to choose from. Besides, another outstanding advantage of wooden floors is that they help reduce the phenomenon of sweat on the surface like other types of tiles, helping the floor to always be dry and comfortable.
Wooden floors also help you clean easily, the surface is smooth but not slippery, ensuring high safety for users. In particular, wooden floors also help bring a cool, pleasant feeling in the summer and warm in the winter, which will definitely bring you the best feelings.
Water resistance of industrial wood: this is one of the important factors that determine the quality of the product. Because the weather in our country is quite harsh, changing with the seasons with the specific characteristics of each season. Especially in the rainy season, the humidity of the air is high, the floor or wall often sweats, so if the floor is not water resistant, it will affect the time of use of the floor, the floor is easily warped, swollen, losing the aesthetic beauty of the wooden floor. However, the wooden floor is still affected by the water environment, with the climate of our country, you can consider whether to use wooden floors or ceramic tiles.
Anti-termite: industrial wood is produced according to advanced technology processes with structural layers of compounds with relatively precise ratios, so customers do not have to worry about the termite resistance of the wood, always keeping the floor's original beauty.
A final factor to evaluate the durability of the floor over the years is that it is less abrasive, resistant to strong impacts as well as limiting scratches on the floor surface. Most surfaces of industrial wood floors are protected by a layer of UV paint that greatly limits scratches during daily activities that occur continuously, making the floor always shiny and beautiful. In the process of using wooden floors, we cannot avoid the impacts of daily activities, so industrial wood floors need to have good bearing capacity so that the floor is not damaged such as cracking or peeling.
In addition to its outstanding advantages, wooden floors also have certain limitations, such as: Not used for outdoor constructions, the durability of the product will be affected when used in stagnant and flooded environments. Wooden floors are only used for constructions with a certain flatness, cannot be bent or carved with patterns.
1.2 Characteristics of ceramic tile floors
Ceramic tiles are heterogeneous tiles, covered with a protective layer of enamel. Ceramic tiles, although diverse in size, color or pattern, are divided into 2 main types: glossy ceramic tiles and matte ceramic tiles. Each type has its own advantages and disadvantages. Therefore, depending on the purpose and suitable space, consultants or construction experts use ceramic tiles to maximize the advantages of each type as well as limit their disadvantages.
Ceramic tiles are considered cheap tiles, with the advantage of price, many customers choose tile floors for level 4 houses. With hard materials, the durability of the product is more solid, and the manufacturer cannot accurately determine the product's lifespan. The product's patterns and colors are diverse, beautiful but unnatural, the product is easily cracked and the glossy layer on the surface peels off. If consumers want to choose ceramic tiles for the purpose of building a luxurious space, they should use high-end tile products.
On rainy days, ceramic tiles are very susceptible to moisture for the living space, the product is cool for sunny days and creates a cold feeling in winter.
The smooth surface of ceramic tiles is easy to clean, but the difficult part of ceramic tiles is the boundary between the tiles where dirt sticks, gradually discolors, sticks deep inside, making cleaning difficult.
The construction process of ceramic tiles is quite complicated, requires high technical skills and is combined between the components of cement, mortar, water, creating a solid bond. And the product is firmly bonded, has long-term use.
2. Comparison of wooden floors and ceramic tile floors
About price:
- Laminate flooring: 200,000 VND - 500,000 VND, natural wood flooring: 500,000 VND - 900,000 VND.
- Regular ceramic tiles: 85,000 - 250,000 VND, high-end tile floors: > 250,000 VND.
Obviously, in terms of price, ceramic tiles are much cheaper than wooden floors. This is the reason why many people wonder whether to use wooden floors or tile floors, because people often say "you get what you pay for", however, ceramic tiles are also of quite good quality for normal projects.
Durability:
- Wooden floors: warranty for more than 10 years for durability and color, under normal use conditions, wooden floors can be used for up to 25 years.
- Ceramic tiles: There is no specific warranty period, because they are made of hard materials, they are durable, but they are easily cracked when hard objects fall on them (in this case, it is very difficult to repair), ceramic tiles can also blister or peel off the surface.
Color:
Tiles have many rich and diverse designs, but that does not mean that the color of laminate flooring is inferior. Up to now, not only stopping at colors such as dark brown, yellow brown, laminate flooring has many diverse colors such as pink, decorative motifs, creating many choices for customers.
In addition, wooden floors create luxury, modernity and are creating a new trend in flooring style in Vietnam.
Luxury:
- Wooden floors: Luxury and modernity are the most obvious feelings that wooden floors bring to users, at the same time they also create closeness to nature and are gradually becoming a trend of modern life.
- Ceramic tiles: Luxury will only be found in high-end ceramic tiles (if you are smart in choosing) and their prices are not cheap. Therefore, for projects requiring European-style luxury, families wonder whether to use wooden floors or ceramic tiles, because of the difference in price and aesthetics.
Ability to resist dampness: As a tropical monsoon country, Vietnam has to endure frequent damp winds throughout the year, the floor is the most directly affected location.
- Wooden floor: Has quite good dampness resistance, the floor surface remains dry in such unpleasant weather conditions.
- Ceramic tiles: During the damp winds, the floor surface paved with ceramic tiles often "sweats" extremely wet and uncomfortable for your family's activities.
Ability to adapt to weather changes:
- Wooden floor: There is a change in the surface temperature of the floor before the change of weather, summer creates a cool feeling, winter is warm, all four seasons you can walk barefoot in the house, very comfortable and beneficial for your health, if the family has elderly people, you should install wooden floors because wooden floors are not slippery, which is better for the elderly.
- Ceramic tiles: Ceramic tile floors are cool in the summer, but very cold in the winter, so if you use them, you will have to wear slippers or lay a carpet.
Floor cleaning:
- Wooden floors: The gaps between the joints are almost completely eliminated, so the floor surface is very easy to clean and maintain, the floor surface is always new and not dirty.
- Ceramic tiles: The smooth surface is an advantage of ceramic tiles in cleaning, however, the gap between two tiles is a "dead spot" that is often dirty, discolored and difficult to clean.
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Construction and installation:
- Wooden floors: Because they do not require high technical skills during installation, they are very quick to install and can be used immediately after installation.
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Ceramic tiles: Construction is complicated because it requires cement, mortar, water, requires high technical skills, and cannot be used immediately after construction but must wait a certain amount of time.
Mobility:
- Wooden floors: Easy to disassemble and repair parts when needed.
- Ceramic tiles: Ceramic tile floors are long-lasting, so repairing and replacing parts is very difficult.
Each type of tile has its own advantages and disadvantages, whether to use wooden flooring or ceramic tile flooring depends on the conditions, as well as the needs of the customer. Both types of tiles create luxury and aesthetics for the house, both types of tiles are popular and widely used for a long time, although there are many new types of flooring materials. No product is absolutely perfect, there may be limitations, but just consider from an angle that customers demand, it is easy to choose.
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