Is LVP always a bad idea?
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Anonymous
| We bought high end LVP and people ask us what kind of wood it is all the time. Doesn’t scratch, always looks new. Can redo for low cost later on if you want to. Great for pets and kids. |
Anonymous
| I’m genuinely happy for people who are happy with their floors but it’s a no for me, so I would build in the cost of replacing it if making an offer on a house. But the PP above might be budgeting to replace a wood floor with vinyl so you can’t please everyone. |
Anonymous
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Live out west where it goes in all new homes- costing well over a million. Between dogs and Mormon families with lots of kids, and snow- nobody wants the work/liability of hardwood. Redoing them necissitates a move out- no way I’m doing that every 5 years.
Get modern, DCUM, get modern Love LVP |
Anonymous
Relax. It’s just the name of the product. If it eases your distress, it’s called that to distinguish it from vinyl composite, so it’s the most luxurious option in the universe of vinyl tiles, not in the universe of all flooring. I regret to inform you that Taco Supremes aren’t actually supreme, nor are Magic Erasers actually magical. |
Anonymous
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LOL at Taco Supreme and Magic Erasers!!
We put Coretec Cairo Oak in our bonus room/office and we love it. I think the earlier versions of LVP were pretty bad and I really don't care for charcoal gray flooring and/or ones with a "stripey" appearance. But we're so happy with our floors we're considering doing them in the entire upstairs (currently carpeted). |
Anonymous
+1 I don't care for the kind that try to look like wood. The worst is the gray colored wood look IMO. |
Anonymous
It does feel like it encapsulates Utah McMansion culture to me so. |
Anonymous
| We have it throughout 1st floor with 3 kids, 2 dogs, and pool. It makes sense for us now but I cannot wait until we can replace it with real wood. But glad we have this now. |
Anonymous
| We just replaced carpet with marmoleum and it’s awesome so far. It doesn’t look like wood, which I like. And the improvement over nasty carpet is huge. We have a split level so it’s fine in terms of appropriate for the house, plus with kids and pets etc and for cost reasons we wouldn’t do wood. |
Anonymous
| 1m is not a high end house |
Anonymous
| It looks wonderful in our basement and we don't worry about the kids or dogs scratching it or water damage if there's a leak. It's much more hygienic than the wall-to-wall carpeting that was there before. |
Anonymous
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Just replaced the 10 year old failing engineered hardwood flooring and ceramic tile throughout a $400k home with COREtec LVP.
The floor installation looks great, there are no thresholds anywhere in the home, the care and maintenance is super easy. Many friends have commented thinking it’s real hardwood, it’s a plastic product that is durable. My husband has tried to scratch and damage left over pieces to demonstrate its durability. We weighed the pro’s and con’s of the LVP vs hardwood, and ultimately went with the LVP knowing many friends that have hardwood and their floors are beat up from kids and pets. And the refinishing of hardwood is so invasive. |
Anonymous
| We installed LVP in the basement of our old house and it was perfect for that space. I would not install it in my new house on the living levels, but when the time comes to replace the carpet in our basement, I will put LVP there. |
Anonymous
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We installed Lvp in a rental home, albeit one worth about 3.3 m (in Los Angeles). We are renting to a family with two dogs so…I looked at a ton of lvp and we ultimately chose to order from Flooret, which looks and feels really good.
In our own home (under 1m) we replaced with hardwood. To me I’d rather have lvp or hardwood, engineered wood often seems to delaminate and scratch. |
Anonymous
| It's soooo incredibly toxic. |