Home office flooring suggestions

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I'm in the process of having some extension work done and one of the rooms is going to be a home office.

I'm looking for some ideas / suggestions on what to use for the flooring. I work from home once or twice a week and use the computer daily so the new flooring needs to be hard wearing and resist damage from a typical computer chair.

The floor base is going to be screed on top of concrete, so suggestions on underlay etc welcome too. It's a downstairs room so I'm more concerned about heat retention rather than sound proofing.

I'm fairly DIY competent so I'll be attempting this myself (unless someone suggests carpet) though I haven't laid a floor before so hints and tips are welcome on that too
 
I've got an office/gaming room at home and all I can say is carpet hasn't worked out too well. That room gets a lot of dust and my thick carpet sucks it up and gets discoloured. Obviously the area beneath the chair gets a lot more wear and the thick rubber chair mat I use has its own issues with collecting dirt around the edges and creating a line.

I was going to replace the carpet in that room and the hallway outside it with engineered bamboo flooring so am also interested in the suggestions made in this thread.

Did anyone else read the title and wonder why the Home Office was looking for advice on OcUK forums?
 
I'd suggest a good quality hard wearing laminate, if going down on concrete add a damp proof membrane and then a decent underlay such as 6mm fibreboard.
 
I would fit a high quality office carpet tile with tackifier, laminate is a pain with office chairs as the chair constantly moves around. You can do it yourself and if any tiles get worn/damaged you can just swap them out.
 
We moved into a new office with new flooring at work last year and the carpet tiles around the chairs were knackered within a few months. They've gone a few shades lighter where the wheels dig in.

So with medium-dark flooring you get obvious wear patches and with light flooring you get a build up of dust... and apparently semen too :D.
 
I got some carpet from a local carpet (not one of the national) shop that was designed for offices and very hard wearing. It was the end of a roll of a really jazzy stripy carpet and only cost me £40 but has been excellent since it was put down as has had 2 chairs wheeled backed and forwards on it quite a bit.
 
I have real wood topped "engineered" flooring and use a chair mat. No marks or anything so far :)
In decades to come where there will likely to be some where, i can sand it down and wax/stain it.
 
I'd say you need to be looking towards commercial flooring rather than any domestic stuff. I've ruined countless regular carpets with office chairs.

At work we specced some pretty good carpet tiles; http://www.interfaceflor.co.uk/webapp/wcs/stores/servlet/Product--10001--eu-en--60717-7172 they have held up over the two years we have had them; they have enough traction to keep your chair still too which can be very annoying and fatiguing on laminate floor.

Have you looked into vinyl tile / vinyl plank flooring?
When I move I'll need to cover the floor in my office too and I'm very tempted by this stuff. I'm convinced I've seen it before somewhere maybe in a carpet shop, but under a different name? It seems to be the a good cross between wood and vinyl. there's some videos on youtube of it being installed and the results are great. I'm going to order some samples myself as I'm really keen on the marquetry and grouting strips; who doesn't want a yacht-deck-floor?

That particular brand is Polyflor; mostly a commercial flooring company but they seem to do domestic products too.

*haven't used it or seen it in the flesh, but I'm looking into it myself
 
R B Customs said:
I'd say you need to be looking towards commercial flooring rather than any domestic stuff. I've ruined countless regular carpets with office chairs.

At work we specced some pretty good carpet tiles; http://www.interfaceflor.co.uk/webapp/wcs/stores/servlet/Product--10001--eu-en--60717-7172 they have held up over the two years we have had them; they have enough traction to keep your chair still too which can be very annoying and fatiguing on laminate floor.

Have you looked into vinyl tile / vinyl plank flooring?
When I move I'll need to cover the floor in my office too and I'm very tempted by this stuff. I'm convinced I've seen it before somewhere maybe in a carpet shop, but under a different name? It seems to be the a good cross between wood and vinyl. there's some videos on youtube of it being installed and the results are great. I'm going to order some samples myself as I'm really keen on the marquetry and grouting strips; who doesn't want a yacht-deck-floor?

That particular brand is Polyflor; mostly a commercial flooring company but they seem to do domestic products too.

*haven't used it or seen it in the flesh, but I'm looking into it myself
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This kind of thing looks ideal, but finding a supplier for domestic uses doesn't look easy!
 
ocmanus said:
Uniclic strand woven bamboo flooring. Same price as oak but as hard as ebony.
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I've had some samples delivered of this and man is it deep! The thinnest stuff they do is 14mm and that is as deep as the floors in the adjoining rooms including underlay! I don't want a massive step into the room so it's back to engineered laminate or carpet I think.
 
CooK1E said:
I've gone for carpet and one of these:
http://www.ikea.com/gb/en/catalog/products/44881100/

Not quite what you were asking for, but does the job with the office chair
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That's what i use on mine, brilliant, does the job!

Here's mine OP.

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