Revamp your bland balcony into a stunning urban oasis with ease, using our zero-maintenance, condo board-approved outdoor flooring. Built to last, it’s the perfect solution for condo owners, developers and wholesales looking to enhance their outdoor flooring.
This premium option not only adds a touch of elegance to your balcony but also ensures a weather-resistant and durable surface. The easy installation and low maintenance requirements make it a favorite among North York residents looking for both style and functionality.
Designed to offer unparalleled durability and aesthetic appeal for your North York balcony flooring. The advanced coextruded composite construction provides robust protection against common outdoor challenges, including stains, mold, mildew, and UV damage.
This superior landscaping grade flooring is crafted with environmentally friendly materials, ensuring it is lead-free and has zero dioxin emissions. Compliant with condo rules, it requires no nails or bolts for installation, preserving your balcony flooring’s appeal and integrity.
Experience the perfect blend of beauty and functionality on your North York balcony flooring with TruNorth Deck Boards, designed to mimic the look of real wood while eliminating the need for painting, staining or sealing. These eco-friendly boards are also made from 95% recycled materials.
You may or may not be aware that how you feel about something is more powerful than what you think about it. Of course they are connected, but in a simple, basic sense what you feel is the physical and emotional manifestation of your body’s stress response. Creating ways to feel better about where we live can help significantly reduce our stress load, which, as we all know, leads to better health.
What does this have to do with your condo balcony? At KANDY Outdoor, we argue the answer is, “Everything!”
You have the power to create the type of outdoor space that serves as an emotional refuge. A place where just looking out, stepping out, immediately makes you feel more relaxed and calm.
Thinking
What we think includes all the mental processing that many of us believe drives our decision-making process. How much will it cost? Can I afford it? Is it worth it? Will I have to do a bunch of work to keep it up? Is it practical?
Feeling
How you feel will affect your body’s stress response, whether more adrenalin and cortisol will be produced in response to that stress, or whether you can trigger the ‘rest and relax’ response in your nervous system. How much stress you experience, and over how long a period of time, has a major impact on your health and longevity.
At KANDY we believe, therefore, it is important to make decisions in setting up your home that will affect how you feel, balanced of course with your rational thinking.
Let’s apply this to your condo, or more specifically to your condo balcony.
Here’s a little imagination exercise.
Close your eyes and imagine you are approaching your balcony from the inside. As your balcony space comes into view:
Scenario 1: There is junk strewn all over your balcony. Boxes, garbage bags, old furniture that just didn’t fit and you didn’t have the energy (clue: how you feel) to take to the garbage area. Maybe you’ve got cleaning supplies, buckets and brooms out there too.
How does this scene make you feel? Tense? Trapped? Uncomfortable? Chances are that it will add to your negative perceptions about that space. It may make you feel like it’s just another gargantuan thing on your to-do list (must clean off the balcony). It may make you feel like you’re trapped inside (who would want to go outside onto THAT?). It may make you feel a little claustrophobic. It likely will not make you feel relaxed and happy.
Who wants that?
Scenario 2: You’ve kept your balcony pristine. In fact, there’s nothing on it. Nothing at all. No plants, no furniture, no sign of life whatsoever. Just the cold, hard concrete, the railings, and the big bad world beyond. Let’s call this the bare naked, never-been-loved balcony.
How does this scene make you feel? Probably not like going out there. It might make you feel forlorn, alone, or untethered. Maybe even unsafe or exposed.
Who wants that?
Creating a space that changes for the better how you feel can help you take care of yourself. In the fast-paced, urban, technology dependent, immediate gratification lifestyle that has become the norm, the constant stress and busy-ness puts us all at risk of stress-related fatigue or worse.
At KANDY Outdoor Flooring, we believe in the stress-relieving power of a warm and welcoming outdoor space.
Go ahead. You deserve it.
Feel free to poke around our website for some ideas, or contact us to see how we might help.
When you’re ready to turn your attention to your condo balcony, there can be a lot to consider as you plan your personalized beautification. Even if your space isn’t big, it can be transformed into a wonderful outdoor oasis. Here are the 5 things we suggest you consider as you get started in choosing flooring for condo balconies.
Rules, Rules, Rules
Even if you own your condo, chances are you do not own the balcony. It’s the condo corporation, called “strata” in British Columbia, that is the owner of the balcony, while you have exclusive rights to the use of it. Every condo board or strata council will have its own rules governing what’s permitted on your balcony and what’s not. Check into what those rules are so you know what to expect. (In our experience at KANDY Outdoor Flooring, 99 per cent of the time our floating, interlocking outdoor flooring is permitted, once the details are known.)
Establish Your Budget
There are a range of options, and a corresponding range of price tags, for outdoor flooring. Think hard about what it is going to be worth to you to create a space from the ground up that will fill you with peace and pride whenever you look out from the inside, and that you’ll want to spend more time enjoying than you ever have before. The old adage that “you get what you pay for” is true, but even on a tight budget you can find options to dramatically improve the look and feel of your condo balcony or rooftop patio.
Indoor/Outdoor Products
Many indoor/outdoor products, like carpets or manufactured grasses, can be very economical, and will look great until they begin to wear. The downside of these types of flooring for condo balconies is that they hold water, meaning the concrete stays wet for longer periods of time. This can actually speed up the deterioration of the balcony surface and in many cases is forbidden by many strata councils or condo boards. Because they stay wet longer, you will also be faced with diminished usability after a weather event, unless you leave your galoshes by the door.
Floating Floor Tiles
Manufacturers and retailers are responding to the demand from urbanites like you, and there are many more options on the market than there were just a few years ago. To ensure you are leaving room for air circulation for faster drying of both the upper surface and balcony base, outdoor flooring tiles should be ‘open profile’, allowing air to circulate in and around the entire tile to keep both the tile and the balcony floor dry. This also allows water and small debris to fall through and wash away underneath, keeping the floor looking clean and dry much more of the time. Check what the product manufacturer says about UV stabilizers, too. While we think of ice and snow and rain as elements that can speed up deterioration of our outdoor flooring, the sun can actually deliver a bigger wallop unless there’s some UV protection.
Composites, Wood or Granite?
If your budget dictates you’re headed to a big box store for your outdoor flooring, you will likely be spared having to make this choice. Most of these large-format retailers offer one type of outdoor flooring tile only, and that is most often composite or low-grade quality wood.
If you have more room in your budget and you prefer a premium product, you can start to play with design ideas and let what sort of look and feel you wish to create drive you to the type of material that is right for your condo balcony. You can find excellent quality exotic hardwoods, which will typically last much, much longer, and will look better in the long term (yes, with a little TLC) than some of the other options. Granite is available from some suppliers as well, and the quality and colour choices of high quality composites make them a popular choice for many.
The main thing to know is that regardless of your budget, your taste, or your condo rules, you should be able to find a suitable option for outdoor flooring that will glam up your outdoor space in a jiffy.
At KANDY Outdoor Flooring, we’re the experts in expanding home experiences through service, quality and choice in outdoor flooring for condo balconies, ground patios and rooftop terraces. Call us today at 1-888-882-2889 to see how we can help you transform your outdoor space.
This week we launched the inaugural KANDY University for the new franchise partners we are welcoming aboard just as the spring season kicks off. It’s an exciting time for us all – our new partners are excited about their new business ventures, and the KANDY brand leadership is excited to watch how the unique value proposition of “service, quality and choice”, in outdoor flooring for condo balconies, ground level patios and restaurant terraces, is catching hold.
We’ve been preparing for KANDY University for over a year. Franchising experts will tell you how important franchise training is for setting up your franchise partners for success and for establishing quality control benchmarks – and we believe them!
We view our operations manual as the backbone of the KANDY University training program. We developed the manual with an eye to KANDY U’s curriculum, but we knew it would play a pivotal role in our ongoing training, support and quality control. Our operations manual now covers all areas of KANDY business, from brand history to product training, from marketing approaches to our customer-first consultation method, from floor designer methodologies to the technology we use in the course of delivering outdoor flooring for condo balconies, ground patios and restaurant terraces, and more. We admit that the KANDY Operations Manual may be longer than some, but we were comfortable erring on the side of having more detail to share with our franchise partners, rather than leaving more room for interpretation or mistakes that might cost our franchise partners money.
We followed the experts’ advice on holding KANDY U in the territory of the head office, what we call KBC. We believe it will be helpful for new partners to see how we operate from a founder’s perspective, and to meet key players they will later deal with mostly by phone and email. We’ve planned site visits – to our warehouse, current client’s, a live consultation and a live install – to help make the customer focus we’ve talked with them about become real.
After KANDY U has concluded, we have ongoing training planned for the field. The spring home show circuit is kicking off across the country and we will be taking a hands on role, for example, with our new Ontario partners and helping support them for success at the National Home Show 2015 in Toronto, on March 13 – 23 at Exhibition Place.
We are committed to providing outstanding on-going support to our franchise partners, so that they can provide outstanding customer service in their home territories. When you see a KANDY-branded vehicle in your community, know that we’ve taken great care to prepare them for success, and give us a honk!
Over 25 Million Monthly Unique Users Rated Top-Rated Home Building, Remodeling and Design Professionals in Canada and Around the World.
Vancouver, BC. Canada, January 24, 2015 – KANDY Outdoor Flooring of Vancouver has been awarded “Best Of Houzz” for Customer Satisfaction by Houzz, the leading platform for home remodeling and design. The four year old company that expands home experiences by providing outdoor flooring for condo balconies was chosen by the more than 25 million monthly unique users that comprise the Houzz community from among more than 500,000 active home building, remodeling and design industry professionals.
The Best Of Houzz award is given in two categories: Design and Customer Satisfaction. Design award winners’ work was the most popular among the more than 25 million monthly users on Houzz, known as “Houzzers.” Customer Satisfaction honors are determined by a variety of factors, including the number and quality of client reviews a professional received in 2014. Winners will receive a “Best Of Houzz 2015” badge on their profiles, helping Houzz users around the world who discover and love a professional’s work to learn even more about that business’ popularity and satisfaction rating among their peers in the Houzz community.
“We are very pleased to be part of the HOUZZ community and enjoy the connections that are made as a result”
-Kelly Niessen, Co-Founder of KANDY Outdoor Flooring
“Houzz provides homeowners with a 360 degree view of home building, remodeling and design industry professionals, empowering them to engage the right people and products for their project,” said Liza Hausman, vice president of industry marketing for Houzz. “We’re delighted to recognize KANDY Outdoor Flooring among our “Best Of” professionals as judged by our community of homeowners and design enthusiasts who are actively remodeling and decorating their homes.”
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KANDY expands outdoor experiences by providing outdoor flooring for condo balconies and ground floor patios. It only offers the highest quality products and materials available today. Top of the line exotic hardwoods, sophisticated granite, and contemporary composites (WPCs) are all in its line-up. It’s interlocking outdoor floating floor systems are designed with Canadian condos and backyard patios in mind. No glue, no grout, no nails, nothing affixed whatsoever. That means no problem with strata or condo rules. The open profile allows water and small debris to fall through and wash away underneath, leaving the surface clean and dry. Air circulates around the entire tile keeping both the base surface and upper area dry.
Services Provided
KANDY offers service, quality, and choice. Theye do it all for you; consult
& Design, Customize and Install, Clean & Maintain.
KANDY currently serves clients in Vancouver and Toronto and is expanding in every major center of Canada through its Franchise program. For more information, visit kandyoutdoor.com
Houzz is the leading platform for home remodeling and design, providing people with everything they need to improve their homes from start to finish - online or from a mobile device. From decorating a room to building
a custom home, Houzz connects millions of homeowners, home design enthusiasts and home improvement professionals across the country and around the world. With the largest residential design database in the world and a vibrant community powered by social tools, Houzz is the easiest way for people to find inspiration, get advice, buy products and hire the professionals they need to help turn their ideas into reality. Headquartered in Palo Alto, CA, Houzz also has international offices in London, Berlin and Sydney. For more information, visit www.houzz.com
KANDY Outdoor Flooring recently aired on Dragon's Den on January 14, 2015! If you missed it, check us out here:
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Condo Kandy’s balcony flooring products are not prone to wind lift. The open profile of the tiles, with gaps between the upper slats and the grid-type construction of the bases, allows air to circulate fully around the tiles. This means the tiles aren’t a solid buffer for the wind to disturb. As well, with individual tile weights ranging between 2 and 2.4 pounds per square foot. Once interlocked, their collective weight prevents shifting.
Condo Kandy offers condo owners the peace of mind that comes from superior products, workmanship, and our passion for helping you create luxurious urban outdoor lifestyles through our proprietary balcony flooring. And that means your single, all-inclusive price includes a free in-home consultation, shipping, handling and delivery, layout design, installation, customization, clean up and extra tiles to keep.
If you really must have our exclusive, proprietary balcony flooring products and don’t want or need the full-service treatment, give us a call. Let’s talk.
For developer or other commercial applications, what’s included will depend on the specific requirements and all inclusions/exclusions will be clearly outlined in your proposal and on your invoice.
Investing in our high-quality balcony flooring not only transforms your outdoor space but also enhances the overall appeal and potential market value of your property in North York’s competitive real estate scene.
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