Hardwood flooring

dirty_magic

Jimmithecat wrote: »

dirty_magic wrote: »

Honestly, I'd go for a high end laminate instead of I were you. We have oak flooring in the living room. It's beautiful, but you only have to drop the TV remote on it to dent it. With hindsight I'm not sure I'd have it.

I'm surprised at this - I have solid strip French oak and parquet cherry that has been down for 15 years now and it is in great condition despite having children playing, spillages, animals messing, furniture dragged (on sliders), heels etc on them over this time.

I prefer the solid woods for the feel and finish compared to the engineered and laminate I have upstairs.

I would recommend you take your time and be very choosy - the chap who put ours down really knew his stuff and comes back to sand and reseal them every few years. He also does all the local schools in the summer (which is a good sign imo

Maybe it's because I'm fussy so I notice them. It doesn't bother my OH. It's not cheap wood either, we picked one of the most expensive. Ours has only been down just over a year but it has a few dents already. I've dropped my keys on it a couple of times and we have a dent by the sofa where OH dropped the remote. No one has ever walked on it in heels but I wouldn't risk it.

They told us it would go 10 years before it needed sanding but there's no way it'll go that long.

Sausage11

We went for solid bamboo for both ground and first floors. We've been very happy with it. We had it glued down.

We bought ours from: http://www.bambooflooringcompany.com/all-flooring/solid-bamboo-flooring/

We were originally going to have wet underfloor heating put in and then the wooden flooring on top. But we were told if we were going to use rugs this wasn't a good idea as the heat could collect under the rugs and cause damage to the floor.