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Anonymous wrote:NP. This is encouraging. We are renovating now and trying to decide between tile (current) and HW in kitchen. Do kitchen HWF wear out and need refinishing, typically, faster than those in other rooms in the house? 2 kids, no pets here.

I will always prefer tile in the kitchen and bathrooms as it's simply more durable (not a big fan of wood in 1/2 baths either). We have some very minor warping in our HW floors in a couple spots I'm guessing from the previous owners when a water leak likely went undetected under the kitchen sink. These days appliances are garbage that fail/leak and it takes a lot more to damage/warp tile floors than wood floors. Just my 2 cents. Ultimately you can't go wrong with either, but tile is certainly more durable.

We currently have 30 year old hard wood floors (oak) in our kitchen. It is incredibly durable. We're replacing now because we're replacing the entire house, but it wore amazingly well. Past owners had lots of boys too, so it got abused. Tile doesn't last 30 years. It cracks and the grout gets stained. My last house had a tile floor and I hated the high maintenance of it. I had to mop weekly because the floor always looked splattered and streaked easily. It was 5 year old tile and there were chips already. One especially bad chip was from a wine bottle that broke.

Anonymous wrote:NP. This is encouraging. We are renovating now and trying to decide between tile (current) and HW in kitchen. Do kitchen HWF wear out and need refinishing, typically, faster than those in other rooms in the house? 2 kids, no pets here.

I will always prefer tile in the kitchen and bathrooms as it's simply more durable (not a big fan of wood in 1/2 baths either). We have some very minor warping in our HW floors in a couple spots I'm guessing from the previous owners when a water leak likely went undetected under the kitchen sink. These days appliances are garbage that fail/leak and it takes a lot more to damage/warp tile floors than wood floors. Just my 2 cents. Ultimately you can't go wrong with either, but tile is certainly more durable.

7 years in, four kids and a big dog, sweep a couple of times a week and use the swiffer wetjet once a week (more often when the kids were littler).

So far so good.

We have bamboo in the kitchen. I broom sweep daily for crumbs and cleaners Clean with Bona and swifter type mop weekly. It's so much nicer on my feet than tile. Yes, I clean up water drops a lot but I would on a tile flooR too- it's not like I would leave a mess just because the floor is tile.

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I use a swifter on our kitchen hard wood floors. Fast & easy!

Bamboo anyone?

We sweep daily because my kids cannot manage to get all of the food from plate to mouth, and our cleaning lady mops every other week. I honestly have no idea what she uses. Some products can make it slippery, in the past we've used water with a little vinegar, which is what the installers recommended.

Anonymous wrote:We love our hardwood floor!

I use a Dyson stick vac for daily cleaning. Use Bona to mop it once a week.

This is what I do also. Love that Dyson stick vac with the hardwood floor attachment.

Go with vinyl tiles that resemble hardwood. Outstanding for kitchens and wears like iron.

Anonymous wrote:I don't nec. prefer wood in kitchen (I've had large quarry tiles that I've liked) but we did that in our recent renov/addition.

Sweep daily, spray mop with Bona and clean mop head, should probably vacuum in between too but so far (2 yrs in) it looks very good.

should add, we don't have heavy traffic load and no dogs (cats are easy on floors).

In our old house we had wood in the kitchen and the traffic pattern def. showed significant wear over 10-15 yrs. We had it refin'd once and it looked great again...

I don't nec. prefer wood in kitchen (I've had large quarry tiles that I've liked) but we did that in our recent renov/addition.

Sweep daily, spray mop with Bona and clean mop head, should probably vacuum in between too but so far (2 yrs in) it looks very good.

NP. This is encouraging. We are renovating now and trying to decide between tile (current) and HW in kitchen. Do kitchen HWF wear out and need refinishing, typically, faster than those in other rooms in the house? 2 kids, no pets here.

I love my hardwood floors in the kitchen. We put them in when we did our reno. I vacuum almost daily and mop once a week. I use hot water with a little pine sol.

We love our hardwood floor!

I use a Dyson stick vac for daily cleaning. Use Bona to mop it once a week.

I run my roomba a few times a week. It keeps my hardwood floors pretty clean. I keep a mat under the sink and dishwasher to help prevent water damaging my hardwood floors.