Karndean Flooring

Sub floor has to be perfect absolutely perfect. It's so thin it'll show every lump bump and board joint.

I'd rather use an engineered board with an underlay.

Any reason you want to use karndean?
 
Amtico do the same stuff.

I've had some done in the flat for my bedrooms and bathrooms and it's great. They put plywood down to smooth the floor and soften the feel. Prefer it to my laminate wood boards.
 
Another +1 for Amtico here if going doing the LVT route. I ordered some samples, Amtico ones arrived next day, had a quality feel, are made in the UK, and have a similar price point.

The karndean ones arrived after a few days, and just didn't seem as good to me.
 
Maccapacca said:
Sub floor has to be perfect absolutely perfect. It's so thin it'll show every lump bump and board joint.

I'd rather use an engineered board with an underlay.

Any reason you want to use karndean?
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Just for the choice of finishes, water resilience and resistance to damage. At the moment the current house is a mix of carpet, tiles and engineered hardwood but I'm just looking at more options for the new place.

Amtico are definitely on the list too.
 
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Just had my living room done using Polyfloor Camaro LVT. I was so happy with result I’ve had my hallway done too, but with a Harvey Maria and Polyfloor mix.
Floors were first levelled with self levelling compound as my existing subfloors were poo. So easy to clean and a long warranty, expensive, but so would alternatives line engineered wood.
 
Lonewolf said:
Just had my living room done using Polyfloor Camaro LVT. I was so happy with result I’ve had my hallway done too, but with a Harvey Maria and Polyfloor mix.
Floors were first levelled with self levelling compound as my existing subfloors were poo. So easy to clean and a long warranty, expensive, but so would alternatives line engineered wood.
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any chance of a photo or two mate? :)
 
Weve got Karndean down in our living room over electric underfloor heating, we are pleased with it now, but we had lots of problems, nothing to do with the material, just a **** floor fitter.

It's sorted now though.
 
Just had it laid last week in kitchen and dining room. Kitchen looks perfect (screeded floor) but in the dining room in certain light you can see slight undulations from the floorboards underneath (6mm ply on top of boards before karndean)

Its a good surface though and we are happy overall.

Cost was £50sqm laid including any sub floor work.
 
I've had the ployfloor version down for probably ten year now and I really like it, definitely a step above laminate and much tougher than a real wood floor. I echo the comments about the sub floor preparation though.
 
^^lol

For a bit of context it's for a new-build property that I'm due to complete purchase of soon. I'm looking at options for the utility, gaming room, ground floor hall, study, bathrooms and potentially kitchen/family room. Bedrooms, landings, living room and cinema room will certainly be carpet. More than likely going to go straight vinyl for the utility, quite possibly for the downstairs bathroom too.
 
we had amtico fitted when we did our house up, got it in our hallway and kitchen. we preferred amtico over karndean when looking at samples.
 
When I bought my new build apartment in 2015 I had wood effect Karndean installed in hallways, lounge and kitchen. No complaints, thought it was pretty good and looked nice. Had Amtico tiles installed in the bathrooms, I ended up just going for the designs I preferred - didn't see much difference in the quality between the two personally.
 
alx said:
When I bought my new build apartment in 2015 I had wood effect Karndean installed in hallways, lounge and kitchen. No complaints, thought it was pretty good and looked nice. Had Amtico tiles installed in the bathrooms, I ended up just going for the designs I preferred - didn't see much difference in the quality between the two personally.
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We found there was more choice with the Amtico. Seemed to be able to choose bevelled edges etc, whereas with Karndean each range came as it did. However in the end the design we preferred ended up being one of the cheaper Karndean ones.

Our floor isn't level in the slightest to the point it's comical, our fitter suggested it was still suitable and he just evened out the main dips rather than getting it completely flat as it would've been a huge/expensive job. It's only been 18 months so far but no issues yet.
 
BUDFORCE said:
Weve got Karndean down in our living room over electric underfloor heating, we are pleased with it now, but we had lots of problems, nothing to do with the material, just a **** floor fitter.

It's sorted now though.
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What problems did you have? I've got problems with my flooring which is both down to fitters and product!
 
Felix said:
What problems did you have? I've got problems with my flooring which is both down to fitters and product!
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Ok, so, we had it fitted over electric under floor heating, the electrician did a pretty good job screeding the floor, even the floor fitter who had originally quoted us for 2 rounds it screed said they did a good job and we would only need one. They also used heat resistant glue (apparently) as were well aware the heating was under before taking the job.

That done, floor fitted, looked fantastic.

It was November and chilli, new floor, living room decorated, all cosy though wack on the underfloor heating, enjoy a movie.

What they failed to tell us is that for a good few weeks you are not supposed to put heating on under, and then go very gently for a few more weeks after until it all settles in.

Blew the bloody flooring up, basically it expanded into itself at all the joints, which then lifted.

To be fair, they were ok about it after, but came 3 separate times to do patch jobs until we got fed up and they eventually agreed to relay the entire floor.

Obviously each time this meant emptying the furniture out of the room etc, pain in the backside.

It's all sorted now though and looks fine, I did drag a piano across it where one of the casters had seized, and you can hardly see it, which isn't bad considering if you've ever moved a piano you'll know how heavy they are.
 
Marvt74 said:
We found there was more choice with the Amtico. Seemed to be able to choose bevelled edges etc, whereas with Karndean each range came as it did. However in the end the design we preferred ended up being one of the cheaper Karndean ones.

Our floor isn't level in the slightest to the point it's comical, our fitter suggested it was still suitable and he just evened out the main dips rather than getting it completely flat as it would've been a huge/expensive job. It's only been 18 months so far but no issues yet.
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When I did my flooring I wanted a light wood flooring effect, which for whatever reason Karndean had more selection for, however in general yes Amtico has a larger selection.
 
BUDFORCE said:
Ok, so, we had it fitted over electric under floor heating, the electrician did a pretty good job screeding the floor, even the floor fitter who had originally quoted us for 2 rounds it screed said they did a good job and we would only need one. They also used heat resistant glue (apparently) as were well aware the heating was under before taking the job.

That done, floor fitted, looked fantastic.

It was November and chilli, new floor, living room decorated, all cosy though wack on the underfloor heating, enjoy a movie.

What they failed to tell us is that for a good few weeks you are not supposed to put heating on under, and then go very gently for a few more weeks after until it all settles in.

Blew the bloody flooring up, basically it expanded into itself at all the joints, which then lifted.

To be fair, they were ok about it after, but came 3 separate times to do patch jobs until we got fed up and they eventually agreed to relay the entire floor.

Obviously each time this meant emptying the furniture out of the room etc, pain in the backside.

It's all sorted now though and looks fine, I did drag a piano across it where one of the casters had seized, and you can hardly see it, which isn't bad considering if you've ever moved a piano you'll know how heavy they are.
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Thanks, basically mine is doing the opposite and is shrinking and gaps appearing all over it.
 
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