Seems like a terrible idea to me.
You make one mistake one time and bingo, you cost yourself a few grand to have it sanded, leveled, varnished, and polished.
Throw rugs and tile in mine
A good poly and an appropriate hardwood selection can do a lot to protect the floor.
Would I ever do a natural wood floor in a kitchen or full bathroom? Absolutely not because I actually use a kitchen and have a dog that would maul hardwood with zoomies.
We put bamboo flooring in. It looks great! It’s held up to cats running claws out and me dropping things.
Ditto on bamboo, it’s nigh indestructible
Albeit in a well climate controlled area. High humidity isn’t good for bamboo. I used to work with a manufacturer whose warranty for bamboo floors had high requirements for humidity, which basically eliminated my area if you like to keep your windows open. If you are in a well climate controlled area, it’s awesome and renewable.
Oh yeah, now that you mention it, there were dire humidity warnings all over the flooring I got.
I imagine there might be similar disclaimers on carpets too
Carpet is much more resilient to moisture, as long as it gets dried back out - that’s why it’s so popular in basements. Tile and vinyl plank also hold up really well to lots of moisture. Wood Is ok with humidity, it will expand and contract, but immersion will destroy it.
Those sound like poor people problems
Mostly I have seen it to have seen it with cheaper floating options and even in the bathrooms to have a seemless consistancy throughout a condo. Never seen it done in a house.
If your one mistake is attacking your floor with sledgehammer or jackhammer, you may have a point.
Hardwoods & bamboo will weather damn near anything.
Even dog claws will take a few years before the floor begs for a refinishing.
You’ve obviously never slid over to the kitchen sink with socks on. Bonus points for doing a spin.
I replaced all my socks with wool or wool blend to make this even more fun.
ZzzzzzzZZZAPPP
Naw, they glide better.
It’s easier to clean than carpet
Are you saying there’s an issue with my kitchen shag carpet? It matches the bathroom and ceilings so well!
And includes all the nutrients a growing body needs!
You just need to snuggle your face into it and breathe deeply!
My last apartment had a low-pile carpet in the kitchen. That house was “planned” about as strictly as the English language.
Are dropping kettle bells on your wooden flooring or something 🤣.
No, but cooking pots could fall and those have sharp lips which will indent the floor. Same with other hardware like cutlery.
And I will handle knives more likely in the kitchen than in the living room.What else are you going to put in the kitchen though, carpet?
Ceramic tile is tough as hell and cleans easily.
Tiling
That’s like 5x the cost though and you’re likely to break anything you drop onto it like dishes or bottles.
Our kitchen has laminate plank flooring and it has held up really well. I believe it’s original which means it’s made it 22ish years so far with part of that time being a rental full of college kids who apparently stored all their literal garbage in the garage and put a bunch of holes in the walls.
Of course not, that’s what linoleum is for
That’s what I was thinking. Linoleum can be ugly and will cut/dent easy, but it’s the cheapest to replace.
Laminate
No, friend dropped a steak knife tip down on theirs, took a chip out of it. From reading comments I guess they must have not sealed/varnished it.
To me its the same as the thought about survivorship bias … you want the best flooring material for the place that will most likely get the most damage.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Survivorship_bias
You seldom use the bedroom floor because all you really do there is sleep … basically wake in the morning and walk on at night before bed. And you seldom bring anything serious into the bedroom like liquids, hot / cold food, drinks or cups or containers.
The living room has moderate traffic and again you don’t really use it during the day.
A high traffic area is the bathrooms because everyone goes there on a regular basis.
The most high traffic area in any house will always be the kitchen because everyone is constantly working and walking there … and it is always exposed to liquids, solids, spills, hot stuff, cold stuff, broken stuff, glass, ceramic, metal, pots, pans. And you sometimes have crowds of people there … all working and basically scrubbing the floor with all those feet.
It’s the reason why you should have the best, hardest and most expensive flooring in any house.
If you are going to invest in expensive flooring … put it in your kitchen because that is where it will be most useful and last for years in your house. If you install cheap floor in your kitchen, you’ll be replacing it in less than 10 years or even less if the flooring is really cheap. After you replace flooring two or three times, it would have been the same cost as buying one good layer of expensive flooring anyway.
And you seldom bring anything serious into the bedroom…
Hah, look at this guy! Amateur, right??
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…right?
So your kitchen has terrazzo? Sick.
Na, diamond finish
Manufactured or mined.
Asking them important questions.
Hardwood floor sealer exists. It’s called vitrification
You’d be nuts to install a hardwood floor and not protect it!
it’s very easy to sweep and mop!
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It looks nice. And if it’s finished well spills will clean if you’re quick.
If it’s finished well you can leave spills for days, they’ll still clean up nicely.
Tacking on, tile is cold and vinyl looks silly.
Wood flexes more, too. Unless it’s on a slab, I guess?
Wood on slab feels weird because of the lack of flex
Also, nothing survives a drop to tile, ever. And you’re left trying to clean shards and sauce out of the grout. Fuck my tile.
You should try installing some good ole linoleum. We solved kitchen flooring in the 1860s but people need to install expensive floors that are worse in every way because… why exactly? I don’t know. I have hardwood floors that are 17 years old and they need to be replaced. Linoleum floors last as long as 40 years. I’m thinking of going old school.
Wow it’s actually 1860. I didn’t know they had plastic that far back. I would have guessed 1950.
Linoleum isn’t plastic, you may be thinking of vinyl flooring which looks similar. Vinyl is cheaper and newer while appearing very similar to linoleum.
Is it solid wood or engineered? Some very soft variety of wood? 17 years is extremely short…
Our old dishwasher and previous cats sped up the process with the one thing that kills hardwood floors.
Since I can’t afford to replace the tile our apartment came with, I got a set of vinyl floor mats and put rug gripper anti-skid pads underneath, the result being like anti-fatigue mats but not as tall, heavy, or ugly. They cover most of the areas I might possibly drop a dish and have already saved one casserole lid. They wipe clean and are easy to move to mop the tile. They won’t last forever but one day I’ll be able to do linoleum.
In Brittain they often have carpet in the toilet. How tf do you clean that, it will get soaked with piss, you dirty fucking Brits.
I am British, lived here for 35+ years (all my life) and I’ve never seen carpet in a toilet or bathroom.
Welcome to the 70’s-80’s when carpeting was de rigueur for bathrooms and kitchens.
Fun story … my son was a climber so all food was in the highest cupboards. One time I needed a bathroom break, and in under 5 minutes he’d dragged a kitchen chair to the counter, climbed up, took down the flour and dumped it all over his little sister. Honest to gawd all I could see of her was her dark eyes in a cloud of white.
And just to boost his creativeness here, he decided to move the chair to the sink, grabbed a cup of water and they started making flour pies on the carpet.
Gotta love kids!
I have 3 kittens in their puberty, that’s already more then I can handle. I’m skipping kids.
Hey it’s not me experiencing urine leakages often enough to develop such presumption, buddy
You think flushing doesn’t sprinkle toilet water everywhere?
Yup, just shut the cover before flushing
Whenever a man is peeing standing up, droplets will spread around the toilet. Over the years, the buildup will be horribly unhealthy and disgusting. But for Brits who already never wash their hands, it may not be such big of a deal.
Then just don’t pee standing up, I’m a dude and when I’m at comfort of my home I always choose to sit on my toilet. It’s so much better that way, much more comfortable and less messy.
I always sit down, but can you be certain every other man peeing in your toilet does the same?
well fuck you for making me realize that my carpet after all may be stained with fluids that never left my belly.
What kind of cutlery are you dropping that requires refinishing your floor?
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tungsten spike maces. why do you ask?
