Style and comfort beneath your feet

The floor­ing chosen for a room cov­ers the entire floor area. It thus has a decis­ive impact on the appear­ance of the room. And you always feel it under the soles of your feet. 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 floor­ing adhes­ive. But what is the best way to design the under­foot area? We tell you what is import­ant.

1. Appearance and functionality are important when choosing a floor covering

Car­pet, par­quet or lux­ury vinyl floor­ing? Wheth­er you just refur­nish your home or do a com­plete makeover: you will be spoilt for choice. The import­ant thing is that the floor meets the require­ments of the room. It’s the struc­ture under­neath that has a decis­ive impact on the floor’s dur­ab­il­ity and com­fort. Par­quet floor­ing, for instance, is also suit­able for use in kit­chens and bath­rooms. You just need to choose the right type of wood and full-sur­­face bond­ing. Thanks to tech­nic­al pro­gress, mod­ern floor cov­er­ings com­bine style and prac­tic­al func­tion­al­ity. Simply seek pro­fes­sion­al advice so you know wheth­er the prop­er­ties of the floor­ing match the room – and then fol­low your taste.

2. Bonded installation

If the floor cov­er­ings are fully glued to the sub­strate, they will look good for years to come. Thanks to the power­ful bond, they will firmly stay in place. How­ever, when choos­ing loose lay or float­ing install­a­tion, the floor cov­er­ings will always remain in motion. This leads to faster wear and causes dis­turb­ing room noise. Bond­ing instead of loose lay also pro­tects the floor­ing against cli­mat­ic influ­ences. Under the influ­ence of heat and humid­ity, floor­ing nor­mally tends to expand, res­ult­ing in buck­ling and tent­ing seams. On the oth­er hand, the floor­ing may shrink at low tem­per­at­ures and dry indoor air, which may lead to the form­a­tion of joints. These prob­lems can be avoided by full-sur­­face bond­ing. By bond­ing, 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 – a bene­fit for our envir­on­ment and your house­hold budget. 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 dis­turb­ing rails.