Floor Coverings for Allergies and Keeping a Healthy Environment

Allergies can be caused by many things, but today scientists have been able to pick out the most common that are related to our floors, and this is also why this article will cover floor coverings for allergies. Most of us are allergic, to some extent, to dust mites, dust mite fecal matter, pet dander, cockroaches and all manner of mold spores. Thus a good part of regulating our allergies is making our floors easy to clean, as all of those things listed can be on our floors!

The use of carpeting actually creates many allergies. They actually harbor the pet dander, mold spores and dust mites mentioned above. Not only that, but they also harbor residue from cigarette smoke, your kitchen grease, various cleaning products, and even the insecticides used to kill cockroaches! It’s a very vicious cycle. Unfortunately too, new carpeting as well as the carpet padding carries its own allergens. After all they have had all manner of stain repellents and dyes applied to them. Consider as well the enormous rolls of carpet may stay in various distribution houses for months, even years before being purchased for installation during which time any sort of critter may make refuge within the stored goods.

The very best floor coverings for allergies then are tile and other flat surfaces that will not harbor as many items as carpeting will. But, one can go one step further, for you see even tile allows dirty water used to clean the tile to go through the tile grout joints and seep underneath said tile. Once it does this, all kinds of dirt as well as bacteria settle in under the flooring. Eventually many tiles fail, and the bacteria grows at an alarming rate. Finally, someone notices quite a bad odor coming from under the floor, and also chances are that a slip and fall problem has also been noted.

This leads me to the final pronouncement for floor coverings for allergies – the very best around is having a Silikal floor. In extreme circumstances even a Silikal floor will have to be consciously and meticulously cleaned to forgo allergies, but that is a very small price to pay to forgo the plague of allergies that some people have contracted. Given the seamless, non-porous attributes the ‘if needed’ meticulous cleaning is left at a minimum based on severity of one’s allergic reaction to airborne particulates.

The way that Silikal fights allergies is certainly most interesting. You see, when Silikal is laid down, either directly on concrete or as an existing floor coating, it forms the toughest adhesion to the substrate possible. You will find that a Silikal floor can be colorful, yet be a high performance floor with truly minimal maintenance even when Silikal has been utilized as floor coverings for allergies.