Three tips for choosing the best flooring for your home

18th October 2019
Three tips for choosing the best flooring for your home

Decoration and the general feel of your home are important factors for comfortable living and flooring clearly plays a key role in this. The kind of flooring you choose is dependent on several factors, including lifestyle and your budget.

Redecorating your home with a new floor requires you to visit flooring showrooms to help you make the right choice. Start by reading the following tips to ensure you avoid any future regrets!

1. Consider the cost of the flooring material

Budget is an important consideration when it comes to choosing the flooring for your home. Flooring is typically priced per square metre, depending on the quality and durability of the floor. When deciding, you should also consider the ongoing maintenance cost tied to the floor you choose. Real wood floors, laminate floors and LVT are extremely popular options due to their affordability and durability.

2. What’s your lifestyle?

The number of occupants and the amount of movement in your home is also an important factor to consider when choosing flooring. If the floor is actively used by kids and pets to play on, a more resilient floor will have to be installed. Wood, vinyl and laminate flooring are the best in such a home to enhance durability and ambience.

If your home has less traffic, a carpet may be preferable with many options available to give a more luxurious feel.

3. Think location

Different parts of a home require different kinds of flooring. Your entrance hall flooring, for example, should have unquestionable durability to ensure proper resistance to outdoor elements, such as rain and dirt. In this place, smooth flooring is ideal. Flooring on bathroom and utility floors, by contrast, should be chosen with care – avoid wood in this area, as the floor will sometimes be wet.

At First Floors, we offer the best flooring services for residents of Glasgow, Ayrshire and central Scotland, covering wood flooring, laminate, carpet and luxury vinyl. Feel free to browse through our website or get in touch with our trained and professional team today to find out how we can help transform the flooring of your home.

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Customer Reviews

Anna Smylie April 2021

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Fantastic service. David gave me great advice on which flooring would be most suitable for my business premises. Within the week Steven came to fit the flooring and, as promised, was in and out in a day. Can’t recommend this local Company enough. Anna Smylie ZuZu Giffnock.

Dawn Henry November 2021

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We recently purchased engineered oak flooring and carpets from First Floors. The customer service from David and team was exceptional. We had just moved home from overseas and bought a house with no floors so we did not have access to allow First Floors to measure. Theye allowed us to use our own measurements as we wanted the floors laid ASAP once we had the keys. The floor is beautiful and laid very professionally (thanks Steven). The carpets are also lovely and exactly what I wanted. The only thing I would change about the experience would be to have First Floors assess the house in advance. We have fire doors which were a problem the day the carpets were laid. This was not the issue of First Floors and it was resolved quickly. Thanks again David, we would highly recommend First Floors to anyone.

Ian and Lesley Proctor January 2022

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Another Great Job Done!!
Just had our third floor project in seven years completed by First Floors once again.
Great service from David and his showroom team from assisting in the selection of materials through to arranging the installation. Chris and his team worked tidily and efficiently on the hardwood flooring with great attention to detail. Gordon who fitted the stair carpet was very professional in his work and was able to resolve some problematic details to our entire satisfaction.
Would definitely recommend First Floors.