While flooring is one of the most major investments you will make in your home, it can greatly influence the overall look and feel of your home. As significant as choosing your type of flooring is, there is another component that is important but often very much overlooked: underlayments. Underlayments are installed between your flooring and the subfloor, offering quite a few benefits to enhance durability, comfort, and performance.
Benefits of Using Underlayments:
- Noise Reduction: The ability of underlayments to reduce noise is among its major benefits. By installing some sort of barrier between your flooring and the subfloor, these sheets will help dampen the noise of foot traffic, making your home much quieter and peaceful.
- Improved Comfort: Underlayments can add a modicum of comfort underfoot, as well. In principle, these underlayments can absorb shock and vibration, which makes the floors feel softer and more comfortable to walk on.
- Improved durability: The reason underlayments can support some cushion for your floor from the subfloor is to provide additional comfort underfoot. Underlayments will help guard your floor from damage due to changes in temperature and humidity, helping to extend the life of your flooring and avoid costly repairs or replacements.
Other underlayments will also help improve the insulation characteristics of your floors, in which case this could provide warmth in your house during winter and coolness during summer, hence helping you to cut down on your energy consumption.
Featured Underlayment Options:
- ACI-125®: A high-density foam underlayment, outstanding in noise reduction and shock absorption. Excellent for residential to commercial applications, this product works wonderfully with a wide array of different flooring types.
- MAPESONIC RM: A rubber-based underlayment for increased noise reduction and vibration control. MAPESONIC RM is extremely effective for high-traffic areas and situations that call for it commercially in flooring installations.
- Scotchguard Guardian: Equipped with a moisture barrier, this underlayment will give great protection to your floor from water intrusion. Scotchguard Guardian performs best installed in humid regions, like basements and bathrooms.
- Whisper Step: High-density foam underlayment for extreme comfort and noise dampening. Whisper Step is especially designed to improve the performance of hardwood, laminate, and engineered wood flooring.
Choosing the Right Underlayment:
There are three major factors that form the basis of selecting an underlayment: the actual type of flooring used, the level of noise reduction required, and your budget. It is for this reason that our flooring experts at WJ Grosvenor can help in making an appropriate selection that suits your needs.
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