Kitchen Maintenance: Which Flooring Is Easiest To Clean?

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All aspects of your home should be properly maintained at all times. It keeps your property in a nice state, making your life more comfortable. Also, if you sell your home, the more maintained it is, the easier it’ll be to sell. While all rooms deserve attention, the kitchen requires extra work. It’s a tough place to keep in order, but you can start by turning your attention to the floor.

Choosing the right kitchen floor is essential if you want maintenance to be easy. Realistically, you want one that’s very easy for you to clean. Here are some of the best options:

Laminate

Laminate flooring is a good choice if you want to mimic the appearance of a hardwood floor. The lamination on the surface means that you don’t have to worry about liquids soaking into planks of wood. Therefore, it’s also extremely easy for you to clean. Most debris can just be swept or vacuumed from the floor’s surface. For spills, you should be able to wipe them up and dry the area in no time. It’s hard to stain laminate flooring, which is why so many people use it in the kitchen.

Epoxy

Epoxy is a unique flooring option that works really well in rooms like the kitchen. Indeed, you often see it in industrial kitchens or restaurants! Why? Because epoxy flooring applications give you a hard floor that is so incredibly easy to clean. Not only that, but it’s resistant to so many chemicals. This is perfect in a kitchen where you may have plenty of cleaning chemicals lying around. All it takes is one wrong move to accidentally get some bleach on the floor. With epoxy, you don’t have to worry about any wayward chemicals harming the flooring. Again, it’s easy to maintain and clean this floor. Simply vacuum or sweep the debris, and spillages are easy to mop up.

Tiles

Kitchen tiles are a classic, and they work well in many homes. The benefit of tiles is that you add some extra class to proceedings. Also, they tend to come in many different varieties and patterns. A third benefit is that you can match the tiles with the wall tiles very easily. From a maintenance perspective, kitchen tiles don’t require much work. Especially if you get ones without grout between them. Then, you won’t worry about liquids soaking into the surface. Still, grouted tiles are very easy to clean, just make sure you mop up any liquids before they get into the grout.

There are a couple of flooring options that you may want to avoid at all costs. Natural stone flooring may look cool, but it’s hard to maintain. The material can be porous, meaning spills can soak in and stain. However, carpet is the absolute worst option of all. It is a pain to clean, full stop. Debris gets caught and trapped in the fibers, fluids stain it easily – there’s genuinely no advantage to having carpet in the kitchen. It may have uses in other rooms, but the kitchen isn’t one of them.

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