Should choose natural wood flooring or laminate flooring in the interior is a question that people often care when designing and constructing furniture, whether big houses or small houses, apartments or villas.
First of all we consider these two concepts:
- What is natural wood flooring? It is timber harvested from natural forests or from trees grown for timber. Distinguished into 2 types. Hardwood and softwood. Wood from conifers is called softwood. Wood from deciduous trees is called hardwood.
- What is laminate flooring? A type of wood formed from the group of short-term woody plants such as Acacia, Eucalyptus, Rubber etc. are chopped, combined with glue, chemicals, pressed, compressed at high temperatures to create thickness, hardness surface. Most come from Germany or Malaysia.
Regarding the choice and comparison of natural wood flooring or industrial laminate flooring, it is truly a lame comparison. Because they are on different levels. Depending on your needs and budget, you can choose accordingly.
Comparison of advantages and disadvantages of natural wood flooring against industrial wood:
1. Regarding the degree of water resistance:
- Laminate flooring: when it comes to water, it can only hatch and never be retracted (because industrial wood is made from pure wood pulp + chemical glue, so when it comes to water, wood pulp will come out, if the brand If using good glue and good wood pulp, it will take a longer time.)
- Natural wood flooring: made of wood cells, so it can absorb water and release water, you can see the fact that wood is shrinking and collapsed in conditions in the installation room (however, the time for quick release of water or slow and may return to the original state depending on the nature of each type of wood)
2. Wood grain
- Natural wood flooring: keep the natural natural textures of natural wood that are used for flooring of different types of wood, there will be different points, so that natural wood grain is often beautiful and rich. into a unique feature of each type of wood.
- Laminate flooring: wood grain is the image taken from the texture of the natural wood after forming the film and pressed on the surface of the wooden bar, so the wood grain of the laminate flooring is often not beautiful and not as sharp as natural wood grain.
3. Feelings when using:
- Laminate flooring: the surface is a layer of wood grain texture, and the top is aluminum oxide layer that is limited to scratches. So the feeling of walking is not real, and the feeling of hissing at the feet if it is wet.
- Natural wood flooring: Because it is made of wood cells, it can regulate the air. So you will feel very cool in the summer, and warm in the cold.
4. Time of using:
- Laminate flooring: using time from 5 years to 10 years, the aluminum oxide layer will be worn, then only thin wood grain layer will quickly be damaged.
- Natural wood flooring: the shelf life can be 10 years or more, and can be forever. Because the more you use it, the more beautiful it is.
5. Maintenance:
- Laminate flooring: Each type of wood is ordered by an importer with different colors and keys. If after 1 period of use, you damaged a few m2 (or maybe the importer did not enter that color anymore, or that business is no longer active). The consumer must accept the use of the above condition, or must replace the entire wooden floor with a different pattern of flooring.
- Natural wood flooring: there are almost only one common types of wood, and the way of “dreaming” is nearly the same. So changing a few square meters is very easy, not dependent on a certain factory or supplier.
6. Cost:
- Laminate flooring: there are many options, but in general the price is much lower than natural wood, ranging from 170,000 to 630,000 VND / m2.
- Natural wood flooring: environmentally friendly. High price, in the range from 900,000 to 2,700,000 VND / m2.
7. Practical benefits:
- Natural wood flooring: high use value, because it is a natural wood body, it has the effect of regulating the air, preventing termites, harmful bacteria protecting your family’s health; Longevity and high stability, less warping and shrinkage during use, is a safe product for human health, especially for the elderly and young children because it is manufactured based on world-leading European technology. gender is not through any chemicals, so environmentally friendly. Not only that, using natural wood flooring also brings a luxurious and noble beauty to the home space, when damaged, it can be warranted and continued to use.
- Laminate Flooring: Laminate flooring is made of a mixture of glue, which contains formaldehyde, a chemical that has a negative effect on human health. Laminate floors do not have the properties of wood, so when waterlogged causes blistering, it must be removed and replaced. Besides, laminate flooring also has some advantages such as uniformity in color, tight lock wort hard to crack open, with relatively high aesthetics.
Epilogue:
So the question of whether to use laminate flooring or natural wood flooring has the answer. Hopefully, with the analysis above, customers will have their own choice. More specifically, our Konigin high-grade laminate flooring is laminate flooring that has been highly appreciated by consumers in the past, customers can see more information here.
It can be affirmed that our Konigin laminate flooring is one of the hottest wooden flooring products on the market, which many investors, many customers choose for their interior space. Please contact us immediately at the information below when you want to install wooden floors for your family.
Hotline: 0869.977.877
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