Reply to anyone regret (or love) hardwood floors in the kitchen?

Forum Index » Home Improvement, Design, and Decorating

Reply to "anyone regret (or love) hardwood floors in the kitchen?"

Subject:

Emoticons





More smilies

Text Color: Font: Close Marks

[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]NP here, but I'm intrigued. We get so many spills in the kitchen - water, drinks, tomato sauce, even the dog's water bowl gets tipped. There is no guarantee it will be mopped up quickly. Would this be a problem with wood floors? Is there a kind of wood (real or engineered) that will tolerate this treatment and clean up okay in the end? I've heard horror stories about the ice maker or dishwasher overflowing and destroying the floor. We also have the laundry area right off the kitchen. I supposed that could be tiled if necessary but the transition might be awkward. Right now, we have a sheet vinyl floor which isn't the prettiest (not ugly either) but at least it's waterproof.[/quote]

You're going to have to be neater. A dog's bowl cannot get tipped over and you don't use a towel to get the water up. That would probably warp the floors. Wood is not waterproof if you let water just sit on it. When we bought our house, their old wood floors were warped under where they kept the dog's bowls (but those floors were 20 years old and still looked nice in the kitchen). [/quote]

Options

	Disable HTML in this message
	Disable BB Code in this message
	Disable smilies in this message

Review message

Search Recent Topics Hottest Topics