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Flooring advice

Priscilla Sunderland

26 days ago

Hi, we are renovating downstairs and I am looking at flooring ideas. We want the same floor to run through the hall, lounge, downstairs toilet, open plan kitchen dining and living areas. Given we have no under floor heating, what is everyone’s experience with different floor types?

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Sonia
25 days ago
Wood or LVT are probably the warmest, but not very warm, flooring without UFH. In my experience porcelain is the chilliest, I have it in my kitchen and I never walk barefoot in there! I have laminate in my living room and that’s quite chilly. Mind you the chilly floors are lovely during a hot sunny day. I think as long as you have cosy slippers and lots of rugs it will help.
Alex Burnett
25 days ago
You'll want Glue down LVT like Karndean or Amtico. This does not require expansion gaps around the edge of the rooms or in doorways and can be run through the whole of the downstairs. Be sure to have the subfloors correctly prepared and use High Temperature adhesive.

Avoid 'click' LVT's, these will be nothing but bother and despite claims, will need the same subfloor preparation as glue down LVT.
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Woodfloors4u
4 days ago
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As per other comments, I would recommend Wood or Vinyl. At Woodfloors4u we specialise in Engineered Wood, Solid Wood and Vinyl flooring we also stock all of the accessories to finish the floor.

We have vast number of flooring options on the website, below are some example images of floors fitted in our customer's homes:

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