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.
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.
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?
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.
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.
What the fuck are you doing to your floors?? Hardwood is easy to clean and doesn’t crack like tile.
Wasn’t my floor, friend dropped a steak knife which landed tip down, took a big ass chip out of it. Guess they didn’t varnish/seal it, they just stained it?
You might look for more competent flooring people.
When I was working with a 3rd generation hardwood master, we would glue in a replacement chip or swap the board if the chip was huge. And stain to match (if appropriate). And refinish.
Always, ALWAYS make the finished product an even, flat floor.
Stained potholes? Wtf ever. Fire that team.
If it chipped, then it is likely some kind of vinyl or composite made to look like wood. Nowadays the fake wood looks realistic enough to fool people! But real wood doesn’t chip like that.
Wear and tear adds to the charm of a well lived kitchen imo
Couldn’t agree more.
Our kitchen table was pretty expensive when we got it and is destroyed from a heap of kids use and family meals over about 22 years. It is firmly agreed (by them too) that when my wife and I die it will be the only thing the kids fight over possession of.
It looks nice. And if it’s finished well spills will clean if you’re quick.
If it’s finished well you can leave spills for days, they’ll still clean up nicely.
Hardwood floor sealer exists. It’s called vitrification
You’d be nuts to install a hardwood floor and not protect it!
it’s very easy to sweep and mop!
You’ve obviously never slid over to the kitchen sink with socks on. Bonus points for doing a spin.
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?
Are dropping kettle bells on your wooden flooring or something 🤣.
No, friend dropped a steak knife tip down on theirs, took a chip out of it. From reading comments I guess they must have not sealed/varnished it.
I put whatever I want in my kitchen because I’m a superstar and fuck your disapproval.
Trampoline floor
Throw rugs and tile in mine
Same people install white or cream carpets just before they decide to have kids or a party.
