Why Tiles are The Ultimate Pet-Friendly Flooring Choice

As much as we adore our four-legged family members, even the most well-behaved ones can cause some damage in the home. From food spills and scratching nails to fur shedding and little accidents, flooring is particularly prone to wear-and-tear. Fortunately, there is a durable and stylish option that not only ensures the lifespan of your flooring but makes day-to-day cleaning easier. With endless styles, colours and sizes to tailor your space, tiles are the ultimate pet-friendly flooring choice that doesn’t compromise on style or longevity.

Stain and Odour Resistant

An inevitable part of owning a pet, is mess. But you can save yourself the time, stress and expenses of constantly deep cleaning or replacing your flooring, by installing tiles.

A food or water bowl spill, or toilet training accident, can leave a permanent reminder on your flooring in the form of stubborn stains and odours. Even a small amount of water can cause laminate flooring to swell and hardwood flooring to warp, causing permanent damage. Tiles, however, are water and stain resistant, making them the perfect pet-friendly flooring option.

Easy to Clean

Whether it’s on the bottom of shoes or paws, a whole lot of dirt and debris can be trekked throughout the home. Flooring surfaces such as carpet, laminates and hardwood floors trap this dirt within fibres and cracks, making the cleaning process difficult and often ineffective. Tile flooring is notoriously easy to clean. With no where for dirt, mites, pet hair or dust to become trapped, tile flooring is the ultimate pet-friendly flooring. Not only reducing cleaning time but preventing a build-up of allergy triggers and irritants.

Scratch Resistant

If you’ve got a particularly naughty pet who loves to sharpen their nails on the carpet, or dig at its favourite spot in the house, you’ll know that one of the most important aspects of pet-friendly flooring is its ability to withstand our pet’s claws. Even regularly trimmed nails can leave a mark on hardwood flooring, or snag on carpet. Scratch resistant and durable, tiles are unparalleled in their durability, making them the best pet-friendly flooring choice.

Antibacterial technology

Already an incredibly easy to clean and hygienic surface, Marazzi take porcelain stoneware to the next level with Puro Marazzi Antibacterial , a built-in antibacterial technology that lasts throughout the life cycle of the tile. As much as we hate to think about it, our fur-babies do contribute to the germs and bacteria on our flooring surfaces, so a tile that maintains hygiene between cleans is a game-changer for pet-friendly flooring. Featuring the Puro technology, our stunning Carácter range by Marazzi is effortlessly stylish in its neutral stone-look design and is our top-pick for pet-friendly tiles.

Tiles are without a doubt the best pet-friendly flooring choice, but the greatest thing about them is the endless design possibilities. Thanks to advances in design replication technology, no style is off-limits! Pet-owners can still achieve an authentic hardwood floor or natural stone look within the durability of porcelain, and when regularly maintained with a tile sealant, even natural stone tiles are an easy to clean and ultra-stylish pet-friendly option.