What is the best flooring for rental properties?
Owning a rental property brings long-term investment, but it comes with some concerns about how to maintain it. One of them is to choose the right flooring and making decision about it can be difficult and challenging. In one hand flooring should looks fine in order to keep the value of the property and on the other hand should be durable and affordable.
Hardwood flooring
Hardwood flooring is beautiful and popular, brings value to the property and is one of the durable options. It resists over decades and has potential of few times sanding and refinishing and changing colors. But it requires more budgets for material and the cost of installation is higher as well. It should come to concern that hardwood flooring may get damage and scratch when moving the furniture or kid’s toys or pets’ claws.
Laminate flooring
Laminate flooring is less expensive than hardwood. Although it has the look of the solid hardwood flooring. Laminate is more affordable and it is more resistance to scratch. Because of these qualities, laminate is the most popular flooring for a rental property.
Engineered flooring
Engineered flooring now a day is a choice of many property owners. It’s durability against humidity and moister make this product popular. It require the same installation as hardwood flooring, so nailing down the planks to the subfloor gives it more stability and it is less expensive than hardwood flooring. However, it is not a good idea to install this type of floor if you are planning to rent your property.
Luxury Vinyl flooring
Luxury Vinyl products are incredibly popular for rental properties due to their affordability, durability and it’s resistance against moister and humidity. Highly recommended In the area with high traffic like business offices as like as houses and condos. This type of flooring is more pet friendly and less concern of scratching or damaging the floor.
For more information please do not hesitate to contact PETRA RENOVATION. Our professional flooring installers are able to answer all your questions and concerns.
