Best flooring option?

[drpepe]

Need recommendations please for our ground floor renovation for an open-plan kitchen, diner, living room plus the front hall. i.e. high footfall in areas, plus risk of moisture etc in kitchen. The rear has a west facing 3m sliding door, so lots of sun exposure.

We are considering engineered wood flooring or a vinyl product such as karndean.

Any sort of wood is vulnerable to moisture and I have read that karndean can fade in sunlight.

Can i get any experiences or comments of flooring in the above situations?

cheers, drp

 

[Burnerman]

Check out the click range by multiPANEL.....superb wood effect, no underlay needed and superbly tough and waterproof. Cuts with a Stanley knife, I haven't come across a better flooring product!
John

 

[bennno2005]

Check out the click range by multiPANEL.....superb wood effect, no underlay needed and superbly tough and waterproof. Cuts with a Stanley knife, I haven't come across a better flooring product!
John

Just looking at this now.

Roughly how thick are the planks? I'd ideally like to lay a new floor without having to pull up the old tiles and level....

Cheers

Ben

 

[dpm_dpmartin]

I'm in the final stages of selecting a laminate floor - some kind of hickory colour - and read this with interest. I noticed they also do ceiling tiles as well. I do have one ceiling that is completely knackered and I was dreading fixing it... I wonder...

 

[Burnerman]

Check out the click range by multiPANEL.....superb wood effect, no underlay needed and superbly tough and waterproof. Cuts with a Stanley knife, I haven't come across a better flooring product!
John

Just looking at this now.

Roughly how thick are the planks? I'd ideally like to lay a new floor without having to pull up the old tiles and level....

Cheers

Ben

The planks are around 5mm thick, Ben - maybe 6. They aren't cheap, maybe £30 or more per sq m but they snap together brilliantly - much better than conventional laminate. Don't be put off by the vinyl content - they are as tough as hell.
John

 

[bennno2005]

The planks are around 5mm thick, Ben - maybe 6. They aren't cheap, maybe £30 or more per sq m but they snap together brilliantly - much better than conventional laminate. Don't be put off by the vinyl content - they are as tough as hell.
John

Cheers John - definitely going to look into these, maybe a tad on the expensive side but look very easy to lay yourself.

 

[Burnerman]

I'm in the final stages of selecting a laminate floor - some kind of hickory colour - and read this with interest. I noticed they also do ceiling tiles as well. I do have one ceiling that is completely knackered and I was dreading fixing it... I wonder...

I've done the guest bedroom with the floor stuff, and the bathroom with the standard multiPANEL 8x4 sheets......and after doing this I doubt if I'll ever use tiles again.
The only cloud in this silver lining is that people will want to come and stay now
John

 

[Burnerman]

Most welcome Ben - I couldn't believe that they cut with a Stanley knife, but that's all you need. There is a shaped plastic buffer for use with a hammer to help set the edges together, but that wasn't needed.
John