Anyone have/seen up close vinyl flooring?

[*TripleJ*]

we have vinyl but u have to be careful with sharp things on the floor we have a few rips in our floor from moving furniture

[Willow]

J - Thanks for your reply

we have a few rips in our floor from moving furniture

Wouldn't really be an issue for us. We haven't moved furniture since we've been here and have a modular lounge suite so we can really only have the room set out the way it is now. Although with small children, I can't guarantee there wouldn't be any rips! LOL.

Trish - I agree. I was surprised how good the modern stuff looks.

We're going to head out to a few flooring places tomorrow to have a look but that's always hard with three little ones in tow!

[*TripleJ*]

yeah its mostly in the kitchen where we had the issues with the fridge

[fionas]

I've only seen vinyl flooring in magazines and it looks quite good.

I've always liked cork and it's apparently environmentally friendly and you can get all sort of effects in it these days like parquetry. I'm not sure how well it wears but I like the fact that it looks and feels warm.

[girlonamission]

Hi,

We recently "did up" DS2 bedroom so that it looked like a little boy's nursery, and we replaced the carpet with some of the vinyl timber look planking - we think it looks fantastic! Its held in place by double sided tape, and DH was able to do it himself in only a few hours (he's a builder though, so has all the right tools and equipment needed for cutting it quicker, neater etc than just a stanley knife like they say will also do the trick). If I knew how to post a pic of it on here I would.....but I haven't figured it out yet!

We actually love it so much, that we're going to re-do right throughout our house with the same stuff, going directly over the tiles that are already down. The tiles we have are just so hard to keep clean with 2 kids (they're an off-white gloss - can you imagine!) so we are hoping this timber look stuff will be softer and hide a lot of the smudges marks a bit better.

the beauty of it also is that as I said, it can go straight over the top of what is already down (as long as its reasonably flat - it should be fine over our tiles).

We're certainly happy with how ours looks anyway. I don't think you'll be disappointed!

[Tinks]

My work has the timber plank vinyl flooring in the shop area. It looks exactly like wood, in fact customers comment on it every day and can't believe it's vinyl when I tell them. I would have it in my house if it wasn't so expensive. They type we have is very thick and wouldn't tear if furniture was moved on it. It seriously looks like wood.

I can't for the life of me remember the brand of it (the tiler did give me a brochure which I've lost) but I was talking to the guy who installed it, he said he has it right through his house and it's hard wearing, easy to clean and looks great.

[Willow]

I would have it in my house if it wasn't so expensive.

Bugger...I was thinking it would be a cheaper alternative to a floating floor??

Rilady - If you don't mind me asking, can you remember approx how much it was?