Laminate or solid wood flooring?

[four king power]

Im about to purchase a new floor for the living room after our beige carpet has been turned brown by the dog.

Is it worth paying the extra for solid wood flooring or is laminate just as good? Is there anything i need to be looking out for?

 

[Melton Fox]

Carpet, go carpet!!!!

My house is tiled and laminated all the way through, it's a ****ing nightmare!!!

Also no good if you suffer from Asthma or such breathing ailments as the dust can't settle.

 

[Macky]

Im about to purchase a new floor for the living room after our beige carpet has been turned brown by the dog.

Is it worth paying the extra for solid wood flooring or is laminate just as good? Is there anything i need to be looking out for?

Don't let the ****ing dog inside the house, keep it outside where it belongs.





Oh yeah, laminate generally looks like laminate, which is undesirable.

HTH

 

[Durham Fox]

Carpet, solid, laminate in that order for me.

 

[four king power]

Carpet, go carpet!!!!

My house is tiled and laminated all the way through, it's a ****ing nightmare!!!

Also no good if you suffer from Asthma or such breathing ailments as the dust can't settle.

I paid nearly £1000 on it being carpeted less than 2 years ago and it has been ruined by the cat/dog, its definatly going to be a hard floor this time, purley because it will last longer.

 

[Macky]

Carpet, solid, laminate in that order for me.

Solid; cheap looking laminate; odour absorbing/propagating carpet.
In that order for me.

 

[Nottingham Fox]

I paid nearly £1000 on it being carpeted less than 2 years ago and it has been ruined by the cat/dog, its definatly going to be a hard floor this time, purley because it will last longer.

Why don't you just bin the cat and dog

 

[muzzysgal]

Also no good if you suffer from Asthma or such breathing ailments as the dust can't settle.

Thought that hard flooring was supposed to be recommended for Asthmatics as dust etc is harder to get rid of completely from carpets

That is assuming the floors are swept at least daily though.

 

[four king power]

Why don't you just bin the cat and dog

The cat/dog are a substiute for children that the mrs keeps asking for, they have to stay or else!

 

[Lako42]

I paid nearly £1000 on it being carpeted less than 2 years ago and it has been ruined by the cat/dog, its definatly going to be a hard floor this time, purley because it will last longer.

Spending that much on a surface and then letting a canine grag its filthy rectum all over it.

Terrible investment

 

[MKFox]

solid, you'll think 'cheapskate' every time you see the laminate. It's worth the money.

 

[four king power]

Spending that much on a surface and then letting a canine grag its filthy rectum all over it.

Terrible investment

the carpet was bought before the dog and cat, but yes your right :icon_wink

 

[newtonfox]

I paid nearly £1000 on it being carpeted less than 2 years ago and it has been ruined by the cat/dog, its definatly going to be a hard floor this time, purley because it will last longer.

claim on your house insure for new carpet just spill a bit of gloss paint on it

 

[four king power]

claim on your house insure for new carpet just spill a bit of gloss paint on it

Actually, Newton, you may well be on to something there. I have never claimed a thing on the house insurance, its about time i got some money back.

 

[Hector]

The cat/dog are a substiute for children that the mrs keeps asking for, they have to stay or else!

Get her a budgie.

 

[Britbulldog]

Gonna have to be Carpet my friend. Laminate is no good for Dogs, they slide all over the place and can injure their joints.

To all the anti-dog comments.........

 

[Melton Fox]

Thought that hard flooring was supposed to be recommended for Asthmatics as dust etc is harder to get rid of completely from carpets

That is assuming the floors are swept at least daily though.

Sweep the floor and the dust will go in the air. If you can do it daily with a damp cloth, then maybe.

Carpets do collect dust yes, but they do actually hold most of it until hoovering time.

 

[Macky]

Gonna have to be Carpet my friend. Laminate is no good for Dogs, they slide all over the place and can injure their joints.

The dog shouldn't be in the house in the first place.

To all the anti-dog comments.........

There hasn't been any.

 

[Jenks]

Carpet, go carpet!!!!

My house is tiled and laminated all the way through, it's a ****ing nightmare!!!

Also no good if you suffer from Asthma or such breathing ailments as the dust can't settle.

Crap, I suffer from asthma and am laminated throughout (not ME, the house)
I hate the stuff, even more now!
Yeah, deffo carpet, solid wood, tile, grass, astroturf, mud, tarmac, paving slabs, laminate, - in that order.:icon_conf

 

[Britbulldog]

Don't let the ****ing dog inside the house, keep it outside where it belongs.

Oh yeah, laminate generally looks like laminate, which is undesirable.

HTH

Dont know how to do double quotes but also:

"why don't you just bin the cat and dog?"

Hardly wrote by animal lovers!!!!