Anyone have/seen up close vinyl flooring?

[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?

[YoYo]

I had this throughout my house that I built. If you aren't going to be there long term I think it's a great idea....I would have thought it be cheaper than the floating click together flooring.....BUT.....

You'd have to make sure that your floor is even....KWIM? Mine was placed direct onto a concrete pad, and you could see little bits of dirt that weren't cleaned off the floor properly kind of showing through (no big deal though). Also like JwithJ said, you have to be careful as it's pretty soft stuff so dropping things on it can poke holes through.

Not sure, maybe they have varying thicknesses you can choose from, but I'd say the thicker the better!

Mine was timber plank and it looked great! It holds onto dust though!!

[girlonamission]

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?

I just asked DH and he said approx retail price for what we've got was about $47/square metre (we got it a bit cheaper though as he's a trade customer).

He said it was a truckload cheaper than some of the floating timber floor out on the market. I have no idea about prices of all these sort of things, but I know for a fact he wouldn't have gone with it if it was too expensive.

Like I said, we think ours looks great, it looks like timber until you walk on it and realise its softer under your feet, but still has that timber look about it. Plus, its supposed to be pretty hard wearing stuff.

I know we've seen some cheaper alternatives as well, however we've been told they're basically a waste of money because some of them will rot the minute anything is spilled on them (unless they're wiped and dried IMMEDIATELY), especially urine (again, definitely a no go for us, with 2 little ones & toilet training!).

[Willow]

That's great rilady, thank you!!

I've already seen online that it comes in different quality and thickness, so we'll look in to all that tomorrow. We may also be able to get it at trade price because the builder who is doing our renos is an old family friend of DH's.

We are only doing a smallish area too so it should be affordable enough. I was thinking about putting it in our laundry too which is off our main living area but not sure if it's suitable for wet areas...will check that out tomorrow too.

[girlonamission]

Ok, I'm hoping this works, I've tried to attach a pic of the floor in DS2's room to show you how it looks - we love it and so does everyone else who's seen it. They can't believe its vinyl until the look closely at it!

Ok, so I must not be allowed to attach pics in here since its been edited....oops, sorry about that!

[Doing my best]

My parents have it in the dining room and hallways, and I love it.

I have had wooden floors before, but this is so much easier to clean, and is nice to walk on..