Laminate fucking flooring

[boohoo]

hehehehe

I want some of that on my floor

but you could have all sorts of cool stuff on laminate

That would be a great business idea...

 

[gaijingirl]

parque flooring should make a comeback.

It's perfectly possible to buy parquet flooring... but it's incredibly fucking expensive!

 

[trashpony]

My last flat had gappy wooden floors... have you any idea what kind of nasty shit goes down there!

Honestly if you are going to snort off the floor it really must be good quality laminate!

I wasn't snorting off the floor

I was snorting off a mirror on the table and the note rolled off and onto the floor and down the gap. This never happens with gap-free laminate (or carpet which is what I have now)

 

[gaijingirl]

I wasn't snorting off the floor

I was snorting off a mirror on the table and the note rolled off and onto the floor and down the gap. This never happens with gap-free laminate (or carpet which is what I have now)

From the way you wrote it "I lost a twenty pound note that I was using to snort something or other between the gap in the boards." I thought you were trying to snort something from between the gap in the floorboards!!

 

[Skim]

Get a bloody carpet! It looks better, feels better, and doesn't look like you're aspiring to some well-off-middle-class fantasy you saw in magazines

Carpets are minging – uneven colours, grubby-looking, they trap a load of dirt. They can be softer and offer better heat insulation in the winter, but I don't rate them above laminate. Some laminate looks cheap, but so do a lot of carpets.

There's nothing aspirational about laminate these days – everyone and his dog has laminate flooring. You can get it in Ikea, in B&Q, in Argos... hardly middle-class fantasyland.

 

[boohoo]

From the way you wrote it "I lost a twenty pound note that I was using to snort something or other between the gap in the boards." I thought you were trying to snort something from between the gap in the floorboards!!

Innovative way to get rid of the dust between the floorboards!

 

[trashpony]

From the way you wrote it "I lost a twenty pound note that I was using to snort something or other between the gap in the boards." I thought you were trying to snort something from between the gap in the floorboards!!

You didn't see the state of my cellar

 

[Skim]

I was snorting off a mirror on the table and the note rolled off and onto the floor and down the gap. This never happens with gap-free laminate (or carpet which is what I have now)

Exactly. What if whatever you're snorting or smoking falls off the coffee table and on to the carpet? You're screwed.

That would never happen with laminate – it's the safer option all round

 

[FabricLiveBaby!]

You are right.

Laminate flooring is rubbish. It feels crap, looks crap and it chips and warps when it gets wet.

We are renting a house with laminate flooring and it is rubbish.

Those wooden slabs you get that slot together, ableit a little more expansive, are much nicer. They only have something like 2mm of wood on the chop but htey are much more hardweanig and actually feels like wood.

 

[gaijingirl]

You are right.

Laminate flooring is rubbish. It feels crap, looks crap and it chips warps when it gets wet.

We are renting a house with laminate flooring and it is rubbish.

Those wooden slabs you get ableit a little more expansive, are much nicer. They only have something like 2mm of wood on the chop but htey are much more hardweanig and actually feels like wood.

engineered wood. You get three layers with the bottom two being something cheap. The problem with those is that you have to sand them down in the same way as you do with wood floors and as the top is only about 2mm (thicker in the more expensive ones) they don't last very long.

 

[FabricLiveBaby!]

yeah, it depends how busy your house is.....

My mum got it when I was 14 and my brother was 12. He scrathed the shit out of it, and we have a dog and cat, they scrached the shit out of it too. Still 10 years later it's still there. But it's a buit scruffed. It does need a good sand!

 

[Ms Ordinary]

The bedroom has this incredibly tough hessian stuff which is a bit hard on the feet, but is also indestructable. I think the landlady has her maintenance head screwed on.

Ooooh - I'd like to have laminate flooring that looked like hessian, or coir, or woven cloth...I think I'd really like varnished oilcloth as a flooring.

Or pebbles or sand, except that it would remind me of those tablemats you saw in trendy giftshops in 1995 .

The plasticy fake-woodness of laminate flooring does annoy me slightly, though I am partial to bit of imitation wood veneer in other areas .

 

[Groucho]

Actually it looks rather nice.

I very nearly went for laminate. Really wanted wood, but the wooden floorboards were not in a fit state and I couldn't afford a new wooden floor. So I got a cheap but reasonable carpet.


Now of course, the carpet and floorboards are due to be ripped up by National Grid just two weeks after being laid.

I did, however, just last night, receive a huge basket of lovely flowers from the carpet fitters 'Dear Mrs Groucho, Thank you very much for your custom. Carpet people.'

That's nice innit?

btw If anyone fancies becoming Mrs Groucho, if you act quick there's a big basket of flowers in it for you...

 

[lyra_k]

It doesn't look like wood.

Hmm, it does though, a bit. More like wood than say, jelly, or an elastic band.

If I was buying a place I'd far rather it had decent laminate floors, that new carpet in a colour I didn't like.

However I don't have them and never have so I'm talking outta my arse, my house has saltillo tiles throughout, which is great cos it doesn't show the dirt at all, although you do have to sweep it every now and then.

 

[girasol]

having just put laminate floor on my living room floor all I have to say to you, Brainy, is this:

 

[trashpony]

However I don't have them and never have so I'm talking outta my arse, my house has saltillo tiles throughout, which is great cos it doesn't show the dirt at all, although you do have to sweep it every now and then.

See now they don't sound very suitable in London

 

[lyra_k]

See now they don't sound very suitable in London

In London, I think they would look very Footballers Wives...can see them in a Spanish-style villa type thing.

 

[geminisnake]

Get a bloody carpet! It looks better, feels better, and doesn't look like you're aspiring to some well-off-middle-class fantasy you saw in magazines*.

Carpets are cack. I agree with Drew about the health benefits of laminate. Ours has been down for about 6 yrs and still looks fine but it was quite an expensive one to start with.

It doesn't move about when it's windy like the carpet did(therefore it is warmer), my son can't set it alight like he did with the carpet and you get to buy pretty rugs
Oh and it is soooo funny when you scare the neighbours cat and it skids into a run out the door

Tbh I would laminate more of the house if I could afford it, but every downstairs room has waterpipes in it so it's not 100% feasible. We're going to get cork in the kitchen soon

 

[toggle]

It's perfectly possible to buy parquet flooring... but it's incredibly fucking expensive!

When I was looking at houses last year, I found one where the owners had covered the original parquet flooring with very cheap, very badly instlled laminate. I wasn't impressed.

 

[oryx]

Despite having Brainaddict-type views on laminate floors, I am a little concerned that the house Antelope & I are hoping to buy has carpet throughout, for the very simple reason that it is so much easier to clean up cat vomit (& worse) from laminate floors.

As we are merging our cat-households & need to keep the little buggers in for a while, I foresee hideous malodorous little brown heaps, faded/smelly patches and the need to renew the vendor's rather nice neutral carpet within six months max.

 

[gaijingirl]

Our carpets were brand new when we moved in. Two cats and just over a year later and they were unrecognisable...

 

[Idaho]

I have solid wood floors

 

[toggle]

Our carpets were brand new when we moved in. Two cats and just over a year later and they were unrecognisable...

2 cats, 2 kids and I think you can imagine my carpets.

 

[Idaho]

We are waiting until all the kids are fully potty trained until we replace any of the tatty upstairs carpets.

 

[toggle]

i'm sure some of my son's worst incidents were after he was potty trained. the pack of cheesy wotsits mixed with banana stomped into the carpet.

 

[LilMissHissyFit]

It looks good, is easy to keep clean, and is great for people that suffer from allergies.

Real wooden floors are expensive, why should only the elite be able to enjoy the benefits.

Or is this just a snobbish sneering thread, where you peer down your nose at them common muckers who make such an interior-design faux pas, much to your own snide amusement.

said it for me... well done

add to that the hige practicality when you have smalls and asthmatics and youre done

 

[madzone]

The only thing that puts me off laminate is that the picture wears off. Doesn't it? Apart from that I think there' some nice stuff about.

eta - the other benefit of laminate v wood is that you have no gaps with laminate meaning no drafts/gale force winds coming up through your floorboads.

 

[madzone]

said it for me... well done

add to that the hige practicality when you have smalls and asthmatics and youre done

I leave my smalls on the carpet or the wooden floor - I'm not fussy

 

[oryx]

My house has a combination of 9 year old carpets and sanded floors with huge gaps (which me & a flatmate did ourselves 20 years ago when we were young, lithe, fit things )

I'm surprised that the feline bodily fluids, spilt coffee & tea, & other gross things haven't seeped through the ceiling, decomposing-body-on-Life of Grime stylee.

Time to move, methinks.

 

[lynne8]

I have several friends who have laminate flooring, it's not wood for sure, but it looks great and it isn't as soft as some woods so it doesn't dent the same way, it is easy to keep clean and comes in lots of different shades and finishes. As far as the life of it, I don't know? But not everyone can afford top of the line.