Is LVP always a bad idea?
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Anonymous
| We really want to replace our first floor carpets, but hard wood is very expensive. Would LVP be a horrible idea in a $1 Million house? We just bought, we're currently quite house poor while we rebuild our savings.The carpets are 30 years old, we hate them. |
Anonymous
| I'd go with engineered wood. Easy enough DIY. |
Anonymous
| I hate LVP more than carpet. Please don't. |
Anonymous
I love our LVP, but not for the first floor. It should be engineered or hardwood. No carpet. |
Anonymous
+1 Good for basement, not first floor. No carpet anywhere. |
Anonymous
| LVP in the basement or a beach house, not your first floor. It is plastic. |
Anonymous
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Honestly? Depends on how long you think you will need them. Doing your floors is disruptive, but LVP is relatively inexpensive and if you hate the carpet, I'd go ahead and do it now. I would plan to redo the floors in 5-6 years.
I wish we'd redone the floors in our place when we moved in. When we finally did it, it made SUCH a difference I was so angry we hadn't done it earlier. This was in a $600K townhouse so LVP isn't that out of place. |
Anonymous
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LVP has improved. LVP is available that looks good and is waterproof, pet pee-proof, and resists odors. See Provenza Moda Living Waterproof Vinyl Planks in colors Road Trip and Sweet Talker.
https://www.provenzafloors.com/waterprooflvp/detail?sku=PRO2622&color=Road%20Trip&collection=Moda%20Living https://www.provenzafloors.com/waterprooflvp/detail?sku=PRO2611&color=Sweet%20Talker&collection=Moda%20Living I’d choose good LVP over carpet every time. But I would never choose it over hardwood or engineered hardwood, and the better LVP is just slightly less expensive than decent engineered hardwood. |
Anonymous
| If you’re house poor why not just replace with new, clean carpet and then install hardwood when you have saved enough? If you’re in the DMV, I would say LVP is for basements or mud rooms only. Even in DE where we recently bought, LVp was a turn off |
Anonymous
| It’s horrific. |
Anonymous
| It's better than carpet or tile or linoleum. So if it's your best alternative, sure. |
Anonymous
| If you are comfortable redoing the floors before you sell, I think your friends won’t judge you if you have LVP for now. But I do think an agent would recommend you fix that before selling from an ROI perspective. |
Anonymous
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We lived in a rental with LVP "wood" (coming out of a home with beautifully done real wood) and I actually loved the LVP. Incredibly easy to maintain. The caveat would be that it wasn't in a large, open space, and it was "dark wood" so that you didn't see the fake grain that much as you would with a light color. I don't know how it would have looked in an open space with lots of light.
I personally am not a fan of engineered wood. I can always tell. I might get some samples of LVP and see what you think, with the intent of one day down the road replacing with real wood. |
Anonymous
| It's really bad. sorry. Are you in a tear down or nice $1m? Makes a difference. |
Anonymous
Engineered hardwood consists of 100% hardwood on the top wear layer, so I’m not sure how you could tell assuming it is a quality product. Engineered hardwood products vary in price and quality just like any other flooring product. The “real wood” wear layer on engineered hardwood can be anywhere from 0.15mm to 0.5mm thick; a 0.5mm wear layer can be sanded and refinished multiple times just like a solid hardwood plank. Engineered hardware planks can be as thick as 0.75” thick overall, thicker than cheap wood planks, and jusr as easy on the knees, but more resistant to water damage and rot. |