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Your opinion pls on Laminate or Vinyl for kitchen
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ForeverMystified | Report | 8 Sep 2009 12:19 |
Hi just trying to get a few pro's and cons re the fitting of Laminate or Vinyl ie thick stuff cushion flooring in kitchen, don't want to make an expensive mistake. |
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AnninGlos | Report | 8 Sep 2009 12:55 |
This is of interest to me as we need to renew our kitchen flooring which has been down for 15 years, it is cushion floor and has been really good but is beginning to wear now. Is laminate very slippery if wet? And is it easy to lay yourself? |
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ForeverMystified | Report | 8 Sep 2009 13:02 |
Thank you Joan that's agreat help. |
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AnninGlos | Report | 8 Sep 2009 13:29 |
Thanks |
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R.B. | Report | 8 Sep 2009 14:00 |
Love my Laminate ~always looks like new when cleaned. |
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ForeverMystified | Report | 8 Sep 2009 14:08 |
Thanks R.B. 2 nil for laminate then. |
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BrianW | Report | 8 Sep 2009 14:46 |
Our eldest Labrador decided to take up the lino/vinyl in the kitchen when he was young. |
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ForeverMystified | Report | 8 Sep 2009 14:57 |
Ooops Brian in the dog house was he.. |
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Dianne | Report | 8 Sep 2009 15:03 |
Unfortunately it looks as though I am in the opposition here. I have laminate and it was very expensive, not the el cheapo variety, yet it is chipped all over. I can't wait to go back to lino type flooring. |
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SpanishEyes | Report | 8 Sep 2009 15:17 |
I have had wood floors, laminate floors, Vinyl floors all types of floors but my favourite is slate or tiles, easy to clean never date and hard wearing. |
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ann | Report | 8 Sep 2009 15:21 |
Hated my laminated floor and could not wait to have it took up.Just thankful it was just in the kitchen and no where else.Very noisy and very cold.I now have amtico floor all downstairs.All done in herrinbone witha border.Its a plastic floor laid in strips and has a sawn off edge.Absolutely beautiful. Warm and quiet.Also do different patterns. Annie |
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AnninGlos | Report | 8 Sep 2009 15:30 |
Annie does it need to be professionally laid? |
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ForeverMystified | Report | 8 Sep 2009 15:33 |
Thank you people, keep them coming. |
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ann | Report | 8 Sep 2009 15:39 |
Ann,We had a floor layer in for it.Well worth the money though.Very hardwearing almost impossible to damage. Annie |
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Kate | Report | 8 Sep 2009 15:41 |
We;ve got a wood laminate flooring in the kitchen - it's been down for about eight years and my mum hates it now. It's quite a light wood but because we've got two cats and a dog (and nobody takes their shoes off in the house) it's covered in scratches and marks. Also, we've had problems with the dishwasher leaking recently so it's made a couple of panels raise up slightly and by the patio door there is another raised bit with a water mark. |
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~`*`Jude`*`~ | Report | 8 Sep 2009 17:29 |
We had laminate fitted in January in the kitchen and hall, it is quite noisy and we can see the dog hairs constantly, dog is mostly WHITE !! so l just have to hoover more often or go over it quickly with a damp mop. We've put a washable carpet/runner down for dog so he does'nt slip about. Its easy to clean and looks smart. |
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Shirley~I,m getting the hang of it | Report | 8 Sep 2009 18:11 |
My Son in law had laminate floor fitted in his kitchen, was only down a week and the washing machine sprang a leak and flooded the floor he had to have it taken up and dumped and then decided to have ceramic floor tiles instead. The floor layer got two jobs out of that! |
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ForeverMystified | Report | 8 Sep 2009 19:08 |
Thank you all for your input, will have a day or three trailing the shops and comparing. |
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Purple **^*Sparkly*^** Diamond | Report | 9 Sep 2009 04:55 |
Having been a house cleaner for a while in the past, I would say good quality vinyl flooring would be my choice. One place had pale green laminate and it chipped so easily, it was awful. I got a remnant of vinyl flooring which was commercial quality, left over from a hairdressing salon job, and that lasted really well and cleans up a treat. |
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SpanishEyes | Report | 9 Sep 2009 09:00 |
Just remembered when reading through these replies I also had AMtico in one of the house we have lived in and it was fantstic...it isn't cheap and Amtico will want their trained staff to lay it BUT what a beauty it ! |
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