Easy care combined with a stylish look

What’s the best way to design the under­foot area? Good ques­tion – after all, the floor cov­er­ing takes up the entire floor space. This means that it has a strong impact on the appear­ance of the room. You feel it under the soles of your feet at all times. Car­pet, par­quet or vinyl floor­ing? You can fol­low your per­son­al pref­er­ence as long as the floor­ing mater­i­al meets the require­ments of the room. With the right type of wood and full-sur­­face bond­ing, par­quet floor­ing is even suit­able for use in kit­chens and bath­rooms. It’s the struc­ture under­neath that determ­ines the floor’s dur­ab­il­ity and com­fort. If you want to make sure that the floor­ing still looks good after many years and increases your liv­ing com­fort, it should be installed with a health and envir­on­ment­ally friendly adhes­ive.

Bon­ded floor cov­er­ings accom­pany us through­out our lives. They are well able to res­ist foot­steps, romp­ing chil­dren or pets and heavy fur­niture even if it is moved from time to time. If they have been bon­ded to the screed with a power­ful adhes­ive, they will firmly stay in place. How­ever, when choos­ing loose lay or float­ing install­a­tion, floor cov­er­ings like par­quet ele­ments and vinyl planks will always remain in motion. This leads to faster wear and tear at corners and edges. The ele­ments may also start to vibrate and cause dis­turb­ing room noise. Loose-lay car­pet and PVC floor­ing can form waves and bumps or start to shift. When exposed to heat and humid­ity, some floor­ing mater­i­als tend to expand, which may lead to buck­ling and tent­ing seams. At low tem­per­at­ures and dry room air, by con­trast, the floor­ing tends to shrink, which may res­ult in the form­a­tion of joints. But if you choose full-sur­­face bond­ing instead of loose lay, the floor­ing will be pro­tec­ted from these cli­mat­ic influ­ences.

A bene­fit for our envir­on­ment and your house­hold budget: With bon­ded install­a­tion, the heat from under­floor heat­ing sys­tems is trans­ferred into the room much more quickly and effi­ciently, because there is no sep­ar­at­ing air lay­er between floor cov­er­ing and sub­strate. In terms of design, there are prac­tic­ally no lim­its. Dif­fer­ent floor­ing mater­i­als can be mixed and installed through sev­er­al rooms in a row, on the same height and without any dis­turb­ing rails. All in all, there are many argu­ments in favor of bon­ded install­a­tion. But how healthy is this install­a­tion meth­od for your home?

Res­id­ents can breathe a sigh of relief: A quick look at the pack­aging will reas­sure them that the selec­ted install­a­tion mater­i­als pro­tect their health and the envir­on­ment. When car­ry­ing the EMICODE^® seal, adhes­ives, primers, fillers and many oth­er products are cer­ti­fied to com­ply with the world’s most strin­gent emis­sion lim­its. Before they are gran­ted the label, the products under­go test­ing in a test cham­ber car­ried out by inde­pend­ent labor­at­or­ies. Reg­u­lar spot checks by neut­ral experts and test­ing insti­tutes mon­it­or their long-term com­pli­ance with the lim­it val­ues. This is a major advant­age of EMICODE^® over oth­er cer­ti­fic­a­tion sys­tems for health and envir­on­ment­al com­pat­ib­il­ity.