Hardwearing flooring

Rosa_Damascena

Amtico looks like a better match to me: 

Doozergirl

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Rosa_Damascena

Doozergirl said:

Rosa_Damascena said:

Thanks all. I picked up a couple of Karndean boards today and am not particularly impressed with it, mine is much more realistic.

I'm starting to think it is engineered wood because it doesn't scratch. When I had an early-morning mooch around B&Q yesterday there was nothing that matched that description so I'm wondering where from? Roll on Monday when I can have a proper look.

I don't understand what you're saying.  Engineered wood is real wood.  It scratches.  It has a wear layer of x mms of solid wood on top.  underneath is cross-laminated, making it a more stable product in terms of not expanding/contracting/warping as an entire board.  But the top layer wears like real wood because it is.  

It's a modern, more stable version of solid wood.  

Karndean is LVT.  Vinyl.  Won't wear, will stay stable
in colour and not be affected by stiletto heels, doggies sliding towards the front door for the post, or be susceptible to water penetration. 

I'll tell you what you aren't.  You're not a B&Q lady.  

Lol no fooling you DG

It's the scratch resistant property of the wood that is puzzling me (in a good way).

missile

I had engineered wood and it does wear and warped badly after a washing machine spill.
I replaced it with Quickstep.

Rosa_Damascena

I feel I'm getting warmer with each search: 

Barnworth engineered Golden Oak from Flooring 365.

phoebe1989seb

We fitted engineered oak in two large reception rooms in a previous house. Unfortunately I can't recall the brand but it was mid range, price-wise. It scratched quite badly from day one and when we were selling in 2014 one viewer had the audacity to assume it was laminate! Like we'd put that in a Georgian thatch, lol!

In our upstairs hallway where we need to match with the look/colour of floorboards in other rooms, but don't want to replace the entire area with new boards, we're going with Karndean as it's the best match.

We like old stuff and are not too bothered about stuff ageing/scratching, but if you want pristine I'd go for something like Doozer's fab Amtico.... although I guess you want to match it with what you have elsewhere, in which case that Barnworth looks good 😉

Doozergirl

Rosa_Damascena said:

Doozergirl said:

Rosa_Damascena said:

Thanks all. I picked up a couple of Karndean boards today and am not particularly impressed with it, mine is much more realistic.

I'm starting to think it is engineered wood because it doesn't scratch. When I had an early-morning mooch around B&Q yesterday there was nothing that matched that description so I'm wondering where from? Roll on Monday when I can have a proper look.

I don't understand what you're saying.  Engineered wood is real wood.  It scratches.  It has a wear layer of x mms of solid wood on top.  underneath is cross-laminated, making it a more stable product in terms of not expanding/contracting/warping as an entire board.  But the top layer wears like real wood because it is.  

It's a modern, more stable version of solid wood.  

Karndean is LVT.  Vinyl.  Won't wear, will stay stable
in colour and not be affected by stiletto heels, doggies sliding towards the front door for the post, or be susceptible to water penetration. 

I'll tell you what you aren't.  You're not a B&Q lady.  

Lol no fooling you DG

It's the scratch resistant property of the wood that is puzzling me (in a good way).

Engineered wood is not scratch resistant.  It's a solid wood top.  

How scratch resistant do you really need it to be?  Can you get used to certain character?

Rosa_Damascena

Doozergirl said:

Rosa_Damascena said:

Doozergirl said:

Rosa_Damascena said:

Thanks all. I picked up a couple of Karndean boards today and am not particularly impressed with it, mine is much more realistic.

I'm starting to think it is engineered wood because it doesn't scratch. When I had an early-morning mooch around B&Q yesterday there was nothing that matched that description so I'm wondering where from? Roll on Monday when I can have a proper look.

I don't understand what you're saying.  Engineered wood is real wood.  It scratches.  It has a wear layer of x mms of solid wood on top.  underneath is cross-laminated, making it a more stable product in terms of not expanding/contracting/warping as an entire board.  But the top layer wears like real wood because it is.  

It's a modern, more stable version of solid wood.  

Karndean is LVT.  Vinyl.  Won't wear, will stay stable
in colour and not be affected by stiletto heels, doggies sliding towards the front door for the post, or be susceptible to water penetration. 

I'll tell you what you aren't.  You're not a B&Q lady.  

Lol no fooling you DG

It's the scratch resistant property of the wood that is puzzling me (in a good way).

Engineered wood is not scratch resistant.  It's a solid wood top.  

How scratch resistant do you really need it to be?  Can you get used to certain character?

Working from home I moved myself into my dining room / library for a bit more space. The front legs of my wooden chair are on rug, the rear on the floor. I haven't used a great deal of care when adjusting my chair position and it hasn't scratched although I expected it to. Perhaps its been protected with something?

Your Amtico looks great btw, very realistic.

neilmcl

I really can't understand how you can't tell by the feel of it that's it's real wood or not. I've never come across a laminate that has the same feel as wood, even the more expensive ones with relief patterns still feel fake. If it doesn't have a repeating pattern then the likelihood is it's real wood, even in that pic of the Quickstep laminate I could see a repeat.

Another way to tell if you have a wood floor or not is to look in areas where sunlight hasn't gotten to the floor, eg, under a sofa that doesn't get moved or a long term rug. You will see the difference in the colour where the light has aged the floor differently.

neilmcl

Rosa_Damascena said:

Doozergirl said:

Rosa_Damascena said:

Doozergirl said:

Rosa_Damascena said:

Thanks all. I picked up a couple of Karndean boards today and am not particularly impressed with it, mine is much more realistic.

I'm starting to think it is engineered wood because it doesn't scratch. When I had an early-morning mooch around B&Q yesterday there was nothing that matched that description so I'm wondering where from? Roll on Monday when I can have a proper look.

I don't understand what you're saying.  Engineered wood is real wood.  It scratches.  It has a wear layer of x mms of solid wood on top.  underneath is cross-laminated, making it a more stable product in terms of not expanding/contracting/warping as an entire board.  But the top layer wears like real wood because it is.  

It's a modern, more stable version of solid wood.  

Karndean is LVT.  Vinyl.  Won't wear, will stay stable
in colour and not be affected by stiletto heels, doggies sliding towards the front door for the post, or be susceptible to water penetration. 

I'll tell you what you aren't.  You're not a B&Q lady.  

Lol no fooling you DG

It's the scratch resistant property of the wood that is puzzling me (in a good way).

Engineered wood is not scratch resistant.  It's a solid wood top.  

How scratch resistant do you really need it to be?  Can you get used to certain character?

Working from home I moved myself into my dining room / library for a bit more space. The front legs of my wooden chair are on rug, the rear on the floor. I haven't used a great deal of care when adjusting my chair position and it hasn't scratched although I expected it to. Perhaps its been protected with something?

Your Amtico looks great btw, very realistic.

A lot of wood floors will have a lacquered finish, and whilst resistant to light scratching isn't impervious to it. If you catch something, like a piece of grit, on the underside of a chair or door it will leave a mark. Within a year of having my entire downstairs fitted with a lovely Kahrs oak engineered wood floor I had a new fridge freezer delivered and installed, the delivery team from Comet (showing the age of the floor) dragged the FF along the floor to the Kitchen leaving track marks all over the new floor. I wasn't a happy bunny.