Laminate flooring
Laminate flooring can bring the look of traditional flooring whilst maintaining its hard wearing characteristics. It comes in many styles including natural wood colourings, stone and even tiled designs. It is a décor paper under a protective film that is glued and pressed to a high density backing board.

Laminate flooring is a floating floor system which means that it is ideal for conservatories with its click together system. This allows laminate flooring to be used over a wide variety of sub floors, including wooden sub floors, existing floors and even concrete slabs. Care has to be taken to leave a 10mm border around any flooring to allow for any expansion and contraction of the flooring or conservatory. It is the flooring of choice where a lower cost hardwearing, easy to clean surface is required.

It’s a fact. Laminate flooring costs significantly less than hardwood floors or natural stone tile. And who doesn’t want to save money, right?

Laminate floors are also less likely to fade in direct sunlight, unlike aging hardwood floors.
By using the countertop technology and adding considerably more resin to the wear layer, some laminate floor manufacturers boast that their laminate floors are now 10 to 20 times harder than laminate countertops.

Since this resin filled wear layer is so dense, it becomes extremely difficult to stain or scratch.

Laminate floors offer many benefits to your conservatory, including:

Exceptional durability
Easy to clean surface
Superior stain resistance
Superior fade resistance
Great impact and indentation resistance
Exceptional realism at affordable costs
Easy to replace later on, if desired

Tiles
Ceramic Tiles can completely change the feel of your conservatory. Being easy to clean and hard wearing they are generally the choice of most conservatory owners. There is something palatial about selecting the correct flooring with the correct colour. But be warned don’t cut corners by purchasing cheap tiles. How are you going to feel if a tile in the middle of the conservatory is chipped and needs replacing as you compromised on the quality?

Given all that, who knows, maybe the tile is for you.

As the composition of glaze varies, different styles of tile will exhibit different gloss levels and surface textures. This is important to note when choosing your ceramic tile flooring.
Things to consider are:
. Moisture Absorption means that, as the density of the tile increases, the amount of moisture that tile can absorb becomes less.
Tile Density means that, as the weight or the density of the tile increases, it becomes a stronger tile.
(Remember a smooth floor is slippery when wet when coming in from the garden)
Here is some information to help in your decision making process.
Non-Vitreous Tiles are tiles that absorb 7% or more moisture. They are suited for indoor use only.
Semi-Vitreous Tiles are tiles that absorb from 3% to 7% moisture. They are applicable for indoor use only.
Vitreous Tiles are tiles that absorb less that 3% moisture. They are referred to as frost resistant tiles but cannot be used in exterior areas where freeze- thaw conditions could cause tile cracking.
Impervious Tiles are tiles that have less than .5% moisture absorption. These tiles are frost proof and can be used in exterior areas or on the outside of building facades. You can use these where winter is for real.
If you have never used tile before or if it has been a long time since you have done so, you will be amazed at the wide selection of colours, sizes, shapes and new textures that are now available.

Natural stone tiles
A combination of heat and pressure created blocks of natural stone

Granite An igneous stone that is extremely hard, dense and resistant to scratches and acid etching. It is an ideal stone for use in flooring and in food preparation areas. Hundreds of varieties of granite exist

Marble A derivative of limestone. It is a metamorphic stone that can be polished. Marble is characteristically soft and easily scratched or etched by acids. There are countless types of marble from around the world.

Slate A metamorphic stone that has a sheet-like structure. It is composed of clay, quartz and shale, and comes in a multitude of colours including reds and greens

Not the cheapest and make sure that you seal them from the inevitable stains that will occur.

A local conservatory Tip;- if you are going to use under floor heating in your conservatory please take into consideration the thickness of you tile. Large thick cut marble tiles will give that undoubted feel of class and quality but if they take 3-4 hrs to warm, are they suitable? Always refer to the under floor heating guide supplied with your floor.

Engineered wood flooring
The elegant look of a hardwood floor can add warmth and character to any room in a home. It combines the durability and ease of fit like the laminate flooring but is depth and character is more appealing.
These floors are constructed from several wood plies that are glued together. The centre core is generally a softer wood material and is used to make the tongue and groove. A hardwood finish layer is glued on top of the centre core and another softer wood ply is attached underneath the core. This top ply is also called the finish layer and can be constructed of almost any wood species.

Engineered wood floors are designed for the floating installation and can be glued together or some now come with a click system.
They come in a variety of finishes including oak birch and rustic beech to name but a few.

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