When you put your new flooring at home, you have so many options, sometimes it’s quite difficult to choose. There are some flooring types that are more slippery than others given the various conditions, such as water or wax. If you have an elderly living with you, using non slip flooring is something to really think about for the long term. The older a person gets, the easier it is for them to slip and fall. And elderly will have a more difficult time recovering than younger people.
You can put non skid flooring in rooms that tend to have spills or moisture, such as in the kitchen or bathroom, on your patios, around swimming pools and your veranda. These are the places that are easiest to cause accidents and need more care than others.
When you’ve decided to install non slip floors in your home, you can find them in 3 different materials: linoleum, vinyl and cork. While cork might seem a bit weird for the purpose, it is a very modern and good material to use for flooring, and it is also very easy to clean and maintain. If you are an environmentally conscious person, putting cork floors will make you sleep easier at night as this is a very ecofriendly material to have around. Vinyl and linoleum are the other two materials that are easy to maintain and clean and suitable for the purpose.
Where you can’t put this type of floor, or you already have some other type, to prevent accidental falls you can also add on your existing surface some non slip rubber flooring. Garage and basement comes to mind here. This rubber is available in big rolls and you can simply put it on top of any surface, as it’s very easy to install. Nowadays there are rubber floors that are really modern looking, so you don’t have to worry about having an ugly place when you lay it on your floor.
Non slip mats and rugs are another option for already existing hardwood floors, for example. It is a know fact that waxing your wood can get very slippery, so adding non skid mats in strategically, well chosen places might mean the difference between an accident or not.
