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.
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.
Same people install white or cream carpets just before they decide to have kids or a party.
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.
Throw rugs and tile in mine
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.
Peacocking.
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.
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.
Yah. Mine just has full on knife wounds from that.
Hardwood floor sealer exists. It’s called vitrification
You’d be nuts to install a hardwood floor and not protect it!
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.
No, but cooking pots could fall and those have sharp lips which will indent the floor. Same with other hardware like cutlery.
And I will handle knives more likely in the kitchen than in the living room.What else are you going to put in the kitchen though, carpet?
Tiling
That’s like 5x the cost though and you’re likely to break anything you drop onto it like dishes or bottles.
Our kitchen has laminate plank flooring and it has held up really well. I believe it’s original which means it’s made it 22ish years so far with part of that time being a rental full of college kids who apparently stored all their literal garbage in the garage and put a bunch of holes in the walls.
Ceramic tile is tough as hell and cleans easily.
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.
Tacking on, tile is cold and vinyl looks silly.
Also, nothing survives a drop to tile, ever. And you’re left trying to clean shards and sauce out of the grout. Fuck my tile.
You should try installing some good ole linoleum. We solved kitchen flooring in the 1860s but people need to install expensive floors that are worse in every way because… why exactly? I don’t know. I have hardwood floors that are 17 years old and they need to be replaced. Linoleum floors last as long as 40 years. I’m thinking of going old school.
Is it solid wood or engineered? Some very soft variety of wood? 17 years is extremely short…
Our old dishwasher and previous cats sped up the process with the one thing that kills hardwood floors.
Wow it’s actually 1860. I didn’t know they had plastic that far back. I would have guessed 1950.
Linoleum isn’t plastic, you may be thinking of vinyl flooring which looks similar. Vinyl is cheaper and newer while appearing very similar to linoleum.
Since I can’t afford to replace the tile our apartment came with, I got a set of vinyl floor mats and put rug gripper anti-skid pads underneath, the result being like anti-fatigue mats but not as tall, heavy, or ugly. They cover most of the areas I might possibly drop a dish and have already saved one casserole lid. They wipe clean and are easy to move to mop the tile. They won’t last forever but one day I’ll be able to do linoleum.
Wood flexes more, too. Unless it’s on a slab, I guess?
Wood on slab feels weird because of the lack of flex
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.
Our kitchen is integrated into the living room (open kitchen space) and the whole room has hardwood flooring. Due to the room layout it would be hard to establish a “border” where the flooring could change (e.g. tile floor in the kitchen area). It it easier to have one type of flooring across all the room.
We rent, and unfortunately we were the first ones after the hardwood flooring was put in, which means that every spill and every scratch is on us. We decided not to bother, as every spill leaves a mark (regardless how fast your clean-up effort is), and thus adds character to the floor. It’s a living room after all.
We know that a chunk of the security deposit will likely be gone if we move out. It would probably be as much money as to have the floor sanded down by ourselves.
Despite hardwood flooring has some disadvantages regarding spills and scratches, it makes the room much more cozy than any other type of flooring. The most durable type of flooring would be sealed screed flooring you expect in a warehouse. But that wouldn’t look cozy.
Every spill leaves a mark?
Hardwoods need finish coats. Sounds like a real half assed job you’re living with.
Spills and dropped items are kind of expected in a kitchen, no? Wouldn’t most of this damage be categorized as normal wear and tear? As a tenant it’s not expected that you hand back the property exactly as it was when you took possession - it’s up to the landlord to budget for normal maintenance.
We are on good terms with our landlord, and repairs (mostly heating) are taken care of quickly. So far there are no problems at all. But we like to anticipate the worst. I too believe that spills on a wooden floor in a kitchen are normal wear and tear. I think it all depends on what else in the appartement is worn out (some things even due to real negligence), if we move out any time in the future eventually.
What kind of cutlery are you dropping that requires refinishing your floor?
tungsten spike maces. why do you ask?
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Better impact resistance compared to tile, easier to repair than vinyl or linoleum (sand and restain)
