Why Vinyl Flooring Makes A Great Choice For Your Kitchen

When it comes to kitchen flooring, vinyl is one of the most popular choices for a number of reasons. Vinyl flooring has a number of characteristics that makes it perfect for one of the highest traffic rooms in your home. Below, we will take a look at some of these key features!

Enhanced Comfort

One of the most important reasons why vinyl flooring is so popular with families up and down the UK, especially in the winter months, is the enhanced comfort offered by vinyl flooring. Often, the kinds of flooring traditionally found in kitchens such as stone, ceramic tiles and wooden floorboards, can be cold to stand. This is especially apparent in the winter, when stone and ceramic floors can be very cold, especially at night.

Vinyl on the other hand is padded and can be installed on top of insulation underlay, which makes it much warmer to stand on than other flooring types, great for bare foot late night trips to the kitchen for a midnight snack.

Vinyl is also extremely durable meaning there is no chance of cracks or splinters to appear in the flooring, which can be painful to stand on. Almost zero maintenance is required other than cleaning, unlike wooden floors which need periodical maintenance to ensure the floor remains free of splinters.

Easy To Clean And Clear Spillages Or Breakages

A much loved benefit of vinyl flooring among people leading fast paced lives is the ease of cleaning. This is a very important trait in a kitchen where accidents like smashed glasses, crockery or broken cooking utensils and accidents like spilt food and drinks are likely while hygiene is of utmost importance.

Fortunately, vinyl is waterproof meaning any spills can quickly be mopped up while any broken glass or crockery can be swept up with a dustpan and brush. This is ideal for those with young children or pets and need any dangerous breakages or spillages cleared up immediately.

Furthermore, because of the way vinyl floors are made and installed, there are no gaps in the floor’s surface. This means there is nowhere for things to get stuck, unlike older wooden floorboards which may have slight gaps in the surface, or tiled floors, which often have recessed grouting between the tiles themselves. Such gaps and crevices can cause food or broken glass to get stuck, causing hygiene issues or at worst could lead to injury! Vinyl flooring suffers from none of these pitfalls making for a safe kitchen environment.

Cost Effective Style

Possibly the best feature of vinyl flooring is how cost effective it is. While it is not the cheapest type of flooring, vinyl can be styled to look just like much more expensive floors, such as exotic wood floorboards, stone, ceramic and even mosaic, with all the great benefits of vinyl discussed above. That means you could get a stone effect floor to suit a period cottage, or a vinyl wooden floor to suit real wooden beams used elsewhere in the home, without having the downsides of those particular types of floor.


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