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By (user no longer on site) OP   
over a year ago

Is it better to get a higher end laminate or lower end engineered wood floor (they're roughly the same price).

Any manufacturers you'd recommend?

I have so many samples here.

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By (user no longer on site) OP   
over a year ago

You can tell the difference in price with laminate because I got a screw and tried scratching them all and the more expensive ones were much tougher.

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By (user no longer on site) OP   
over a year ago

It's for a bedroom and living room if that helps?

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By *uriouscouple83Couple
over a year ago

Worcester

Engineered has the benefit of being able to be refinished a few time if it gets scratched etc but a good laminate is less likely to scratch in the first place.

For a living room and bedroom I would imagine that both would be great unless you like to line dance in hobnail boots.

Just go with the one you like the look and feel of the most.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Higher end laminate. Especially if you wear heels

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

If you want wood at a cheaper price than the engineered price and up for some DIY I can recommend what I had laid in France by my builders.

Buy the pine tongue and groove boards (in France they were about 12€ a sq for medium quality) Lay them the opposite way to the floorboards and use a staple gun or nails to pin in the tongue to the floorboards. Finish with skirting boards, quadrant trim or sealant round the edges. Then use watered down paint, varnish or wax depending on your taste.

You get a great, long lasting floor for a fraction of the price.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago


"If you want wood at a cheaper price than the engineered price and up for some DIY I can recommend what I had laid in France by my builders.

Buy the pine tongue and groove boards (in France they were about 12€ a sq for medium quality) Lay them the opposite way to the floorboards and use a staple gun or nails to pin in the tongue to the floorboards. Finish with skirting boards, quadrant trim or sealant round the edges. Then use watered down paint, varnish or wax depending on your taste.

You get a great, long lasting floor for a fraction of the price."

Those French are clever fella’s

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Like everything on this site it's all about personal preferences. I was a hardwood floor snob but I re-did my dining room over the summer and chose a beautiful high end laminate. Its just gorgeous and so easy to keep.

I'm a laminate convert now.

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By (user no longer on site) OP   
over a year ago

Alright, thanks for the input. Think I'll stick to a decent laminate because I know how annoyed I'll be when I enviably scratch it.

The more samples you look at the more confusing it gets.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Check out luxury vinyl tiles, I'd say they're a premium laminate, hard wearing and look/feel great! Have brilliant texture to them as well

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago


"If you want wood at a cheaper price than the engineered price and up for some DIY I can recommend what I had laid in France by my builders.

Buy the pine tongue and groove boards (in France they were about 12€ a sq for medium quality) Lay them the opposite way to the floorboards and use a staple gun or nails to pin in the tongue to the floorboards. Finish with skirting boards, quadrant trim or sealant round the edges. Then use watered down paint, varnish or wax depending on your taste.

You get a great, long lasting floor for a fraction of the price.

Those French are clever fella’s "

They were English builders who lived there Lol. I had it done in my loft bedroom as the floorboards were lovely wide oak boards but were very cracked, rotten in places and with wide gaps that a dog could fall down Lol

Made a great floor and would recommend.

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By (user no longer on site) OP   
over a year ago


"Check out luxury vinyl tiles, I'd say they're a premium laminate, hard wearing and look/feel great! Have brilliant texture to them as well"

I automatically dismissed vinyl, because well, the vinly I have seen/experienced hasn't been great.

I will order up some samples.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Definitely laminate.

I laid some absolutely beautiful engineered stuff when we first moved into this house.

It looked so good and I’d been so proud of it.

Then I started to notice the heel marks in it and then the kids started getting older and playing with toy cars etc on it.

It looked horrendous by the time I ripped it up this year.

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By *oomarangMan
over a year ago

Chester


"Is it better to get a higher end laminate or lower end engineered wood floor (they're roughly the same price).

Any manufacturers you'd recommend?

I have so many samples here. "

I deliver it to the doorstep for uk flooring and both seem very popular and weight about the same the worst one to deliver is the vinyl tiles they bloody heavy and bend

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By *anThomasMan
over a year ago

Manchester/Salford

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By *oomarangMan
over a year ago

Chester


"Is it better to get a higher end laminate or lower end engineered wood floor (they're roughly the same price).

Any manufacturers you'd recommend?

I have so many samples here.

I deliver it to the doorstep for uk flooring and both seem very popular and weight about the same the worst one to deliver is the vinyl tiles they bloody heavy and bend "

www.ukflooringdirect.co.uk

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago


"If you want wood at a cheaper price than the engineered price and up for some DIY I can recommend what I had laid in France by my builders.

Buy the pine tongue and groove boards (in France they were about 12€ a sq for medium quality) Lay them the opposite way to the floorboards and use a staple gun or nails to pin in the tongue to the floorboards. Finish with skirting boards, quadrant trim or sealant round the edges. Then use watered down paint, varnish or wax depending on your taste.

You get a great, long lasting floor for a fraction of the price."

If you’re laying on top of floorboards you need a cushioned underlay between them. Never a good idea to lay directly on top and if you staple them it’s almost impossible to replace individual boards if needed later on.

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By *oomarangMan
over a year ago

Chester


"Check out luxury vinyl tiles, I'd say they're a premium laminate, hard wearing and look/feel great! Have brilliant texture to them as well

I automatically dismissed vinyl, because well, the vinly I have seen/experienced hasn't been great.

I will order up some samples. "

Vinyl is more for bathrooms and kitchens

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By *ervent_fervourMan
over a year ago

Halifax


"Alright, thanks for the input. Think I'll stick to a decent laminate because I know how annoyed I'll be when I enviably scratch it.

The more samples you look at the more confusing it gets. "

Exactly! It's only gonna happen..

It'd happen with markings on wood too, but then it becomes part of the character it'd have over time?

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By *anThomasMan
over a year ago

Manchester/Salford

If you are in a flat, think of the occupier below. Laminate floors even with so called sound insulation are still extremely noisy. They are a major source of complaint by tenants to local authorities. Impact sounds caused by walking are extremely annoying. Airborne sounds from talking or music transmit easily and your sex life will be an open book.

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By *andyfloss2000Woman
over a year ago

ashford

My hallway laminate floor was laid 22 years ago and is still looking good! X

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago


"Check out luxury vinyl tiles, I'd say they're a premium laminate, hard wearing and look/feel great! Have brilliant texture to them as well

I automatically dismissed vinyl, because well, the vinly I have seen/experienced hasn't been great.

Antico vinyl tiles are fabulous and last for ever so justifies the price. If you can manage to buy seconds online then about the same price as engineered. It is very wooden like and you can buy matching tiles with stringing and other patterns if you want a patterned edge or centre.

I will order up some samples. "

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By (user no longer on site) OP   
over a year ago


"If you are in a flat, think of the occupier below. Laminate floors even with so called sound insulation are still extremely noisy. They are a major source of complaint by tenants to local authorities. Impact sounds caused by walking are extremely annoying. Airborne sounds from talking or music transmit easily and your sex life will be an open book."

I am in a top floor flat actually. The tenants below me have laminate and when their kid runs around it sometimes sounds like they're above me.

There is part laminate already here from before I bought it and I'm not really a noisey person anyway.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago


"If you want wood at a cheaper price than the engineered price and up for some DIY I can recommend what I had laid in France by my builders.

Buy the pine tongue and groove boards (in France they were about 12€ a sq for medium quality) Lay them the opposite way to the floorboards and use a staple gun or nails to pin in the tongue to the floorboards. Finish with skirting boards, quadrant trim or sealant round the edges. Then use watered down paint, varnish or wax depending on your taste.

You get a great, long lasting floor for a fraction of the price.

If you’re laying on top of floorboards you need a cushioned underlay between them. Never a good idea to lay directly on top and if you staple them it’s almost impossible to replace individual boards if needed later on. "

They didn’t lay them floated as I wanted a proper wooden floor and was going to have the oak floor taken up but couldn’t afford oak floorboards.

They will last a very long time and no reason to take them up as no services under the floorboards. It was a bedroom so don’t expect any major damage to them. They look great.

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By *ex HolesMan
over a year ago

Up North

You need to buy ‘squirt’ proof for when lockdown is over

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By (user no longer on site) OP   
over a year ago


"You need to buy ‘squirt’ proof for when lockdown is over "

Chance would be a fine thing.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

High end laninate. I fitted engineered wood floor in my renatals (being 1930s it was more inkeeping) they are ruined i went for mid range laminate in one student let it still looks new.

Avoid kardene! Its shite excuse my french

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

I feel your pain, I've been collecting samples for months now and still can't decide. I live in a flat too and in reality I know I need to get carpet as we are noisy, but I really don't want to!

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By *inky_couple2020Couple
over a year ago

North West


"Check out luxury vinyl tiles, I'd say they're a premium laminate, hard wearing and look/feel great! Have brilliant texture to them as well"

Rhino Flooring

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago


"If you want wood at a cheaper price than the engineered price and up for some DIY I can recommend what I had laid in France by my builders.

Buy the pine tongue and groove boards (in France they were about 12€ a sq for medium quality) Lay them the opposite way to the floorboards and use a staple gun or nails to pin in the tongue to the floorboards. Finish with skirting boards, quadrant trim or sealant round the edges. Then use watered down paint, varnish or wax depending on your taste.

You get a great, long lasting floor for a fraction of the price.

If you’re laying on top of floorboards you need a cushioned underlay between them. Never a good idea to lay directly on top and if you staple them it’s almost impossible to replace individual boards if needed later on. "

Same as parquet flooring though - that is generally glued.

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By (user no longer on site) OP   
over a year ago


"If you want wood at a cheaper price than the engineered price and up for some DIY I can recommend what I had laid in France by my builders.

Buy the pine tongue and groove boards (in France they were about 12€ a sq for medium quality) Lay them the opposite way to the floorboards and use a staple gun or nails to pin in the tongue to the floorboards. Finish with skirting boards, quadrant trim or sealant round the edges. Then use watered down paint, varnish or wax depending on your taste.

You get a great, long lasting floor for a fraction of the price.

If you’re laying on top of floorboards you need a cushioned underlay between them. Never a good idea to lay directly on top and if you staple them it’s almost impossible to replace individual boards if needed later on.

Same as parquet flooring though - that is generally glued."

I have concrete flooring anyway.

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By *entleman JayMan
over a year ago

Wakefield

I bought some flooring. The planks wouldn’t even sit together. Long ways. It wasn’t cheap either. I bought Quick Step. Done two different projects with it. Great stuff.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago


"If you want wood at a cheaper price than the engineered price and up for some DIY I can recommend what I had laid in France by my builders.

Buy the pine tongue and groove boards (in France they were about 12€ a sq for medium quality) Lay them the opposite way to the floorboards and use a staple gun or nails to pin in the tongue to the floorboards. Finish with skirting boards, quadrant trim or sealant round the edges. Then use watered down paint, varnish or wax depending on your taste.

You get a great, long lasting floor for a fraction of the price.

If you’re laying on top of floorboards you need a cushioned underlay between them. Never a good idea to lay directly on top and if you staple them it’s almost impossible to replace individual boards if needed later on.

Same as parquet flooring though - that is generally glued.

I have concrete flooring anyway."

There is a discount flooring outlet in Portsmouth that has good deals sometimes. They used to advertise on EBay but not sure if the do now.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

I have lacquered bamboo flooring. Looked beautiful when I lay it. But despite it being advertised as hard wear g it really isn't.

I'd go for an unfinished oak everytime. A scratch or scuff can be buffed out relatively easy.

Think long term when you scuff it with a stone in a shoe or you drop something.

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By (user no longer on site) OP   
over a year ago


"I bought some flooring. The planks wouldn’t even sit together. Long ways. It wasn’t cheap either. I bought Quick Step. Done two different projects with it. Great stuff. "

So check out Quick Step? I think one of my samples here is that and it appears to be one of the toughest.

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By (user no longer on site) OP   
over a year ago


"If you want wood at a cheaper price than the engineered price and up for some DIY I can recommend what I had laid in France by my builders.

Buy the pine tongue and groove boards (in France they were about 12€ a sq for medium quality) Lay them the opposite way to the floorboards and use a staple gun or nails to pin in the tongue to the floorboards. Finish with skirting boards, quadrant trim or sealant round the edges. Then use watered down paint, varnish or wax depending on your taste.

You get a great, long lasting floor for a fraction of the price.

If you’re laying on top of floorboards you need a cushioned underlay between them. Never a good idea to lay directly on top and if you staple them it’s almost impossible to replace individual boards if needed later on.

Same as parquet flooring though - that is generally glued.

I have concrete flooring anyway.

There is a discount flooring outlet in Portsmouth that has good deals sometimes. They used to advertise on EBay but not sure if the do now. "

Will do.

Appreciate the advice.

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