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.
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.
Welcome to the 70’s-80’s when carpeting was de rigueur for bathrooms and kitchens.
Fun story … my son was a climber so all food was in the highest cupboards. One time I needed a bathroom break, and in under 5 minutes he’d dragged a kitchen chair to the counter, climbed up, took down the flour and dumped it all over his little sister. Honest to gawd all I could see of her was her dark eyes in a cloud of white.
And just to boost his creativeness here, he decided to move the chair to the sink, grabbed a cup of water and they started making flour pies on the carpet.
Gotta love kids!
I am British, lived here for 35+ years (all my life) and I’ve never seen carpet in a toilet or bathroom.
Hey it’s not me experiencing urine leakages often enough to develop such presumption, buddy
Whenever a man is peeing standing up, droplets will spread around the toilet. Over the years, the buildup will be horribly unhealthy and disgusting. But for Brits who already never wash their hands, it may not be such big of a deal.
Then just don’t pee standing up, I’m a dude and when I’m at comfort of my home I always choose to sit on my toilet. It’s so much better that way, much more comfortable and less messy.
I always sit down, but can you be certain every other man peeing in your toilet does the same?
You think flushing doesn’t sprinkle toilet water everywhere?
Yup, just shut the cover before flushing
Mythbuster showed 20 years ago that doesnt work
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.
It’s easier to clean than carpet
Edit: I can only assume that one down vote is from the Big Carpet Cleaning lobby
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?
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?
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.
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.
Those sound like poor people problems
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…
Are dropping kettle bells on your wooden flooring or something 🤣.
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?
Ceramic tile is tough as hell and cleans easily.
