Advice needed for new kitchen flooring.

krey

Why do you want to put in crap items in your kitchen such as vinyl/laminate or even CARPET?
Nice engineered/solid wood floors aren't that expensive for a small area such as a the size of kitchen..
Or even nice tiles. Don't skimp few pennies on materials...you are maybe saving £50 for that size of kitchen by installing those crap garbage materials.

Also I still don't understand why there is such a product as --luxury vinyl tiles? :rotfl: There's nothing luxury about sticking plastic junk to your floor,

andyhop

Clueless

LVT is far from basic, you want wood but have a pet or young children. LVT is the answer. Hard wearing and durable . I have very expensive £80 sqm engineered timber in my own and if I was to renovate again it would be LVT.

If I wanted a show house that I didn't use, then I'd stick with timber . For real world applications LVT suits most needs

Carer

Smell - kitchen carpets get all sorts of stuff on them. I know how dirty my vinyl gets with dogs/cats/cooking/spills.

My friend had carpet tiles in the kitchen and it smelled awful all the time. Stale cooking and animal smells. Horrible.

I'd go for tiles/vinyl every time.

john.h

krey wrote: »

Why do you want to put in crap items in your kitchen such as vinyl/laminate or even CARPET?
Nice engineered/solid wood floors aren't that expensive for a small area such as a the size of kitchen..
Or even nice tiles. Don't skimp few pennies on materials...you are maybe saving £50 for that size of kitchen by installing those crap garbage materials.

Also I still don't understand why there is such a product as --luxury vinyl tiles? :rotfl: There's nothing luxury about sticking plastic junk to your floor,

Why would anyone fit solid timber or engineered flooring in a kitchen?

John..

gingernut352000

Kardean or similar laminate looks or once you have dropped a knife or two and dinged it at least with kardean you can lift an individual sheet easily and relay a good flooring place will advise. Have to say carpet would be a no no noooooooooo for us

bouncydog1

We had flotex down for 15 years! Good - warm underfoot, could vacuum and shampoo and even use bleach if needed! Bad - expensive, and did eventually fade where sun got it. impossible to remove so be aware if it needs replacing you will need a special machine a bit like a turf remover and the floor screed comes with it!!

robatwork

It's threads like this that make me realise why our house builders and town planners are also stuck in some old-fashioned trance.

How can you even consider carpet for a kitchen? It's the same with bathrooms - you need something you can get wet and wash properly with bleach.

If it fulfills those criteria then you're OK. I prefer tiles personally, but modern vinyl also works.

JP1978

Carpet in a kitchen? !!!!!!?

As well as the hygeine issues highlighted above, have you considered that the kitchen gets the most foot traffic in the house? Any carpet will wear a lot more in there than anywhere else and will probably show in areas between the fridge and cooker etc as you walk the same 'route' very often.

When we moved into our old house, it had cheap wood based laminate in it and was very cold on the feet. When we refurbed the kitchen, we changed that to quick step vinyl and was much warmer on the feet. My mum had flotex, that seemed to work well (was too young to remember the install) and it seemed to last for ages although did fade - even they eventually gave up and changed to vinyl tiles!

EssexExile

I suspect all those who say carpet in a kitchen is so bad have never had carpet in a kitchen. It's fine, had it for years, doesn't smell, you can clean it. Or perhaps we're just not as messy as some people.

Each to their own.

redmalc

We had Kardean fitted three years ago and it is superb,we seal and treat it every three months