Flooring Choices

[DirtyBox]

Does anyone have any experiences good or bad that they would like to share about flooring for kitchens? We are thinking engineered wood or Armtico/Karndean.

[yeknomyeknom]

We had karndean in our old house and it was good. Do shop around though. We bought ours at a bargain price from abbey carpets online. Saved a fortune.

[Jemmarc]

We have both and in my opinion the amtico is harder wearing and looks much better. That said, the karndean was cheaper and there's nothing wrong with it - if we hadn't ale tried the amtico we would have been completely happy dirt the karndean.

[DirtyBox]

Is it hard wearing? We are considering it for a large kitchen and it's going to get some pretty heavy use so a bit worried how it copes with scratches, etc

Has anyone got engineered wood?

[Jemmarc]

The amtico we have is really hard wearing. But it's a light colour so perhaps doesn't show scratches so much. It's in our kitchen/diner which is the room we spend all our time in and we have two small children so it gets a lot of wear.

The Karndean we have is a dark wood-effect in the living room. We've had it less time and it gets less use and its already got scratches from toys etc being thrown at it. I'd definitely say it's less hard wearing.

[Ginster]

following this as have similar question

[Earl Aelfheah]

We had polished concrete put in. Love it.... Looks great and really easy to keep clean. This is who did ours: https://www.facebook.com/contemporaryconcretefloors/

[snowboarder]

We have a light oak effect karndean throught our ground floor, including kitchen and it is great. It ha been down 3 years and looks new still. We replaced an old wood floor which scratched terribly.

You do need a good basic floor construction though - they lay a screed but our is not so good in the older parts of the house on the old wooden floor construction, better on the concrete floor.

[gerticalec1970]

I suggest that you go with engineered floors. Installing an engineered wood flooring Bristol based hard floor can provide an elegant effect. The different shades of brown wood is very attractive to look at especially if light is shining on them. Furthermore, having an engineered wooden floor is a long term investment, because the wood becomes more polished as it ages.

[gerticalec1970]

I suggest that you go with engineered floors. Installing an engineered wood flooring Bristol based hard floor can provide an elegant effect. The different shades of brown wood is very attractive to look at especially if light is shining on them. Furthermore, having an engineered wooden floor is a long term investment, because the wood becomes more polished as it ages.

[Phlox]

rahrahrah Wrote:

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> We had polished concrete put in. Love it.... Looks

> great and really easy to keep clean. This is who

> did ours:

> https://www.facebook.com/contemporaryconcretefloor

> s/

Did you put in underfloor heating?

[motorbird83]

We have wood floor and they look fine. You have to sand down scratches when they happen and should refinish the entire floor every 5 years or so but if well maintained they'll last 100 years.

[montassa]

we went for poured resin.. its the stuff they use in airport hangars.. so hard wearing and an amazing contemporary look - comes in any colour you want..! no grout lines so great for a clean looking floor in the kitchen

[alieh]

We have a high quality engineered oak, with a very thick layer of real oak on top of the engineered part. Ours with white-oiled, so needs the oil topped up about once a year or so. Looks new again after re-oiling! You can do the oil yourself - just like mopping the floor, but with special hardwax oil.

[Mick_jo]

Honestly I'd try to avoid wood. Even engineered could turn sour when enough water stays there long enough.

My personal experience is either put Vinyl underneath the appliances and the rest could be engineered with the proper connecting threshold. Or.... you can put laminate. Have you considered this? For example Quick-step can give you some pretty good experience with their impressive ultra series that are designed for bathrooms and kitchens, can repel dust and other stuff. Yeah could be expensive but it will be long lasting. And you can even install it yourself. Check out this article here https://www.floorworks.co.uk/wood-floor-fitting/laminate-floor-installation