Flooring Compatible With Pets
Having those fur-covered creatures – cats and dogs around the house can make the home lively and fun. Pets provide protection. They are also great companions and are fun to be with too. This is why you should choose pet-friendly flooring.
Frankly speaking, pets are lovable but also pose a danger to our floors and home fixtures. As they prance up and down, dart around little corners and follow you everywhere you enter, they can scratch the carpet with their claws leaving marks. Pets can get excited and run over drinks or food spilling them across the floor.
So, what kind of floor should you use for pets?
Cats and dogs may not be comfortable on laminate and wooden floors as there is less friction on such floors. In most cases, as pets move on these floors, they slide, scratch and cannot balance their legs.
Even as these lovely creatures struggle to find their footing, the floors receive their fair share of scuffs and scratches. Thankfully, luxury vinyl timber flooring is a choice alternative that can be used in place of wooden floors. These floorings are resistant to slips and scratches due to their protective layer. This makes them very comfortable for pets who are almost always playing in the house.
Easy to clean floors
Those who own pets know so well as to keep their homes clean all the time. From spilling drinks accidentally to getting in the way of meal preparation. Pets can overrun the entire floor and mess it up with food particles and spilt liquid.
As the day breaks, pets find new ways to enjoy themselves at the expense of your precious carpet. This brings to mind the need for an option that offers easy cleaning or limits the number of cleaning per day. And you have this advantage in luxury vinyl floors. All this flooring needs is a quick sweep and mop, and your floor is back to its original texture and appearance. It also does not stain or discolour so well. This product has so much strength that your pet cannot claw at it or have it moved from position – this implies that your tiles and planks are well protected.
Resistant to water
Pets, especially when very young, love to play and consequently, they cause minor accidents in the house.
For floors that are not waterproof, buying cleaning agents may not be easy due to their high price, plus they have a foul smell. This is why a good option like vinyl flooring, which is designed to resist water, is recommended. When installing these kinds of flooring, you can be sure that whatever is beneath won’t get damaged over time.
The beauty of vinyl floors is that they can be easily cleaned with cleaning products that aren’t so expensive. For instance, if your pet poos on the floor, a simple wipe down with household cleaning product and warm water will erase any stain that may probably have developed.
Constant cleaning of floors, especially when the stains are not cleared off, can be worrisome and strenuous. It’s better to save yourself the stress and go for floors that are easy to maintain when it comes to cleaning.
Floors that provide warmth
Pets also like warm places. They cherish it so much that they often sleep off on areas of the floors above the heating mechanism in the home. Sometimes, you see pets come around to the front of the fireplace. This is how much they love to be warm.
Aside from being padded specially, vinyl floors are compatible with underfloor heating. This means that the floorboards will no longer be cold but warm and naturally comfortable – a great friend to pets!
To all the pet lovers out there, it is time to sprinkle some love on those cats and dogs you own. Yeah, it’s great to bath, feed and walk them. But you can go the extra mile to gift them a flooring that will support their day to day activities while saving you the stress of cleaning after them. The power of luxury vinyl floors cannot be overemphasised – it’s beyond description – you just have to feel it.
If you feel up to it and need a great carpet flooring London, head over to MM Carpets and choose from our myriad of stunning carpets one that’ll make your pet feel more at ease. Bear in mind that these carpets look like regular carpets; pet-friendly is not written all over them, but they stand out as carpets that support pet lives when it comes to function. We have great designs that will suit your existing home design and fit perfectly well over your floorboards. Just speak to us.
