A flooring question....

Sumanji

Sumanji

Sumanji

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Ok so I wanna re-floor my flat. At the mo, there is a horrible orange carpet in the living room and hall, old tatty laminate in the kitchen and horrible carpets in the bedrooms which seem to shed layers and layers of fibres every day (doesn't help my allergies!).

I definitely want the kitchen tiled, but not sure what to do about the lounge/bedrooms. Thought about getting laminate throughout (hard wood is not an option... price!), but I've heard it can be very noisy for people living underneath - and I like my music!

Was thinking of tiles for the living room, and maybe "fibre free" carpets for the bedrooms (I'm sure this stuff exists!).

Any ideas/suggestions please guys?

Cheers,

Suman
 
You don't want laminate anywhere where you want to be comfortable, so in a bedroom or lounge. You also don't want it anywhere where it's likely to get wet, because it'll start getting lumpy at the first sight of water.

Just get some decent wool-rich carpet for the living room and bedrooms, and tile the kitchen.

If money is tight, don't skimp on spending on underlay, nice carpet will feel like ****, and wear really quickly unless there's some decent underlay underneath it.
 
Ben M said:
You don't want laminate anywhere where you want to be comfortable, so in a bedroom or lounge. You also don't want it anywhere where it's likely to get wet, because it'll start getting lumpy at the first sight of water.

Just get some decent wool-rich carpet for the living room and bedrooms, and tile the kitchen.

If money is tight, don't skimp on spending on underlay, nice carpet will feel like ****, and wear really quickly unless there's some decent underlay underneath it.
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Sound advice.

Personally I've always prefered carpet, tiles in the kitchen and bathroom. That laminate wood stuff looks good, but its certainly not the warmest or most comfortable imo.
 
If you do want a laminate anyhwere that is going to get wet (bathroom/kitchen) then look at Amtico/carndine(sic) but they're both very expensive (amtico is the more expensive) and you need a good fitter as well, which costs.
 
What's wool-rich carpet like "shedding" wise. I think that's what I have in the bedrooms atm and it creates so much dust! And how do you mean carpet is more comfortable?

Cheers,

Suman
 
Sumanji said:
What's wool-rich carpet like "shedding" wise. I think that's what I have in the bedrooms atm and it creates so much dust! And how do you mean carpet is more comfortable?
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After a month or so of hoovering it regularly then no ore new carpet fluff will come up.

Laminate flooring is quite hard and unforgiving, having it in a room makes it not feel very comfortable, there's no good under feet. More majorly it makes a room feel much colder than carpet, less homely, you wouldn't want to spend very long there.

Biohazard said:
You can get laminate that is designed for wet surroundings Ben.
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Yes, for example the two I listed, but they are top-of-the-line stuff. Other stuff that is "designed for wet areas" isn't anywhere near as good, it'll get wrecked eventually, that said it proably isn't as expensive.

We have Amtico in our hall, kitchen and dining room, as well as our bathrooms, that cost us quite a bit more than any other laminate (from B+Q or wherever) would have. Only, my Dad's company is a flooring contractor, so we got it all at cost, as well as it being made up of end-of line etc.
 
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