engineered wood or amtico in kitchen?

pigeonpie

We are having engineered wood laid in our lounge in our flat - about 25m2. The little galley style 8m2 kitchen, that is semi open plan, used to have real wood oak flooring but that's snuffed it (long story), so we're now living with the subfloor until we can fit a suitable replacement.

The real wood ended up warping a little despite being carefully cleaned ie no huge amounts of hot soapy water, and so this time we wondered about putting Amtico stone-effect tiles down.
We can't put real tiles down due to the difference in height that would result between kitchen and lounge as the subfloor isn't totally level. I wanted real tiles as so much easier to keep clean, but it won't work.

We could also put the same engineered wood throughout both lounge and kitchen if it's not going to be a real pain to maintain, clean and keep looking like the lounge floor right next door.

Flooring co also suggested marmoleum but have read up about that and it seems that it marks easily? I'm not someone who scrubs the floor every day.

I'm looking for some advice from people who have any of these type of floors in their kitchen please. thanks!

cddc

Amtico/Karndean/other good quality vinyl type floors would all be better than engineered wood. Though if you insist on having wood, engineered is far more stable a product than solid and should, as long as you are not silly with it, give you several years of good service. It is more likely to suffer damage than an Amtico type product though.

somethingcorporate

Tiles are cold underfoot, not great if you spend a lot of time in the kitchen and underfloor heating adds a considerable cost onto the bill.

We live in a new build that came with no floors and we just put white oiled oak (engineered wood) in our kitchen and living room and aside from getting covered in food from the little one having dinner it is really great. Looks amazing and feels really good underfoot.

Our neighbour to one side had theirs tiled throughout (it's around 40sq mt in the two rooms together than join at an odd angle) and regretted it the day it was put down not putting underfloor heating in. The neighbours to the other side have put in Karndean and it looks and feels superb so both I think are great choices and reasonably priced.

plumb1_2

Amitco 4me

phoebe1989seb

We put Karndean into the kitchen in our last house, mainly because it was a very good match colour-wise with the 1930s oak flooring throughout the rest of the downstairs. In the three and a half years we were there it stood up to everyday kitchen life very well - much better than engineered/solid wood would have done IMHO.

Otoh, we put Karndean down in our en-suite in our current house and our stupid plumber managed to scratch it badly by dragging something across it, but I put that down to his ineptitude rather than the product itself!

In this house we built a new kitchen extension last year and laid natural antique limestone tiles. They look fab and have been a god-send with our two puppies (now 21 months and 3 months ) and their little *accidents* - much easier to keep clean than solid/engineered wood

We haven't regretted not going for underfloor heating either - despite the size of the space (60 sq m) plus a high vaulted ceiling - as we have insulation overload and two huge cast iron rads......it's the warmest room in the house

Mojisola

Amtico tiles aren't cold underfoot. We've got them in the kitchen and are very pleased with them.