Kitchen floor - How easy is it to maintain wood? Please help!
We can't decide between whether to use wooden floor in a kitchen or porcelain? Does the potential for spillages, grease, red wine and mud from outside mean its completely impractical to clean? Thanks!!
Kommentarer (8)
Ruth Turner Interior Design Ltd
7 år sedanI would not really use wood in a kitchen. It's not really a practical choice especially if it gets very wet as it can warp. It also marks easily so can become tired looking very quickly. Porcelain is definitely the more practical choice. There are some great wood effect tiles out there now.Walrow kitchens
7 år sedanWe agree that wood isn't a practical choice for the kitchen as spills and stains can cause real problems. Our advice would be to keep the kitchen easy to clean and maintain, and keep your wood floor for another part of the house.
Room by Room (Midlands) Ltd
7 år sedanWood floors are prone to scratching. The key is regular hovering to reduce any potential scratching, mopping with an appropriate wood floor cleaner as needed and ensuring that your floor is oiled (the oil will help manage the spill issue but recommend mopping any spills up as they happen). Wood floors are less practical than porcelain but they do add warmth visually and underfoot. If using engineered wood the option for underfloor heating is an added bonus.
The Wood Works
7 år sedanLaminate flooring with a wood effect is a good option and as stated before adds a great amount of warmth to a room. It is also very easy to look after!
Elizabeth Dixon
7 år sedan2 kitchens ago I had reclaimed teak parquet flooring - looked great when it was polished but needed quite a lot of regular work. Also quite dark. We put maple in the conservatory which was definitely a mistake - lovely and light in colour but a pain to maintain. My last kitchen was laminate oak - very practical but perhaps a bit cheap looking - although it was OK for that house which was a temporary home for me. Now I'm in a bigger and rather grander house and also in a quandary about what's going to be best for the floor - limestone or porcelain tiles would look great but I wonder if they're going to be cold and less user friendly if anything gets dropped ....
shelleyuk
7 år sedanI have high end expensive laminate on my floor. It wasn't much cheaper than using wood but I was talked into it as being more practical. Its been a nightmare. With wood on the floor you would drop a bowl, it would smash and you be left with a dent in the floor but that becomes part of the character of the floor. With laminate you drop a bowl it chips the glaze and tears the photo underneath and you're left with a light coloured chip in the floor which really shows up and looks rubbish. Don't go for laminate. If I could rip ours out I would but its only been down for two years and it runs underneath the kitchen cabinets.
I'd go for wood or if you're worried about spills and maintenance then karndean is a good option.
Moduleo UK
7 år sedanHi Darren,
Wood effect vinyl flooring works well in a kitchen as it's easy to clean and hard-wearing. It is also a great heat insulator and can be used with underfloor heating.
We are specialists in luxury vinyl flooring, please see our website for the full range of our wood effect tiles: http://www.moduleo.co.uk/products/wood
Let us know if you have any questions!
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