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
Those sound like poor people problems
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.
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.
it’s very easy to sweep and mop!
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.
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.
I am British, lived here for 35+ years (all my life) and I’ve never seen carpet in a toilet or bathroom.
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.
My wife and I had ceramic tile installed in our kitchen when we remodeled our house. Didn’t like it so four years later we had it torn out and had oak flooring installed. Couldn’t be happier. High quality hardwood floors are really durable.
Hardwood floor sealer exists. It’s called vitrification
You’d be nuts to install a hardwood floor and not protect it!
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.
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.
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.
I thought most people have tiles or vinyl/linoleum for their kitchen floor. Still, you do know that you can just remove and replace the damaged floorboard instead of sanding and varnishing the entire floor, right?
IMO the best flooring for kitchens is cork or real linoleum (not vinyl).
I have stained concrete and i love it. Spill or pets = spray it and wipe it up. Scrapes= reminders of the people we’ve had over, the chairs we’ve dragged up to the kitchen table, and the dancing in the living room. I also have soapstone counters because i like to see the scraped circles and remember bottles of wine and whiskey that we’ve shared. I’ll be sad when we sell it. If they want new counters, I’ll buy the old ones from them.
Sealed concrete and terrazzo are good choices too, but IMO aren’t the best because the slightly softer surfaces of linoleum and cork might save you from dropped dishes or cookware shattering or denting, if you’re lucky.
We’re about to move into a different house and will have to replace all flooring after foundation repairs. I would go with linoleum but i don’t think i can convince my husband that it’s not the same as vinyl. Also, i don’t want any height changes so I’m not sure what floorings i can put in the kitchen and living that are level.
I would go with linoleum but i don’t think i can convince my husband that it’s not the same as vinyl.
“Vinyl is bad because it’s made of petroleum, whereas real linoleum is made of plants and is therefore more eco-friendly” isn’t sufficient?
(I have to admit, the other advantages of linoleum over vinyl are… not much.)
Linoleum is also antibacterial, which is a good property for a kitchen floor.
I don’t think so. He’ll say it still looks like old rolled out vinyl.
Hey, it’s better than carpet.
Though I do get your point, ceramic tile is probably best, but to each their own 🤷♂️
Yeah, but drop a pot on hardwood you might get a scuff or dent, while dropping a pot on tile might crack or shatter the tile.
You make a good point 👍
We happen to have that cheap lick and stick tile stuff. Came with the apartment. 🤷♂️
I put whatever I want in my kitchen because I’m a superstar and fuck your disapproval.
I like the cut of your jib.
Trampoline floor
