Hi
I havent posted for a while. I have unfortunately been back at work for the past 4 weeks and this working mum stuff is very hard. Anyway the reason I am back at work is that we are having a house built.
Dp and I are considering laminate "click woood" flooring instead of tiles. Has anyone had any experience with this type of flooring? We like the lood of the wood and it has a very good warranty but any personal experience is better.
Thanks
Michelle

We have Quick Step laminate flooring in entry/hallway/bedroom/study and it is FANTASTIC! Looks good, easy to take care of, and it takes a real beating from DH's wheelchair and other wheeled equipment.

It's laid on a pretty dodgy chipboard floor which means it's not very even but this was a pre-existing problem with 30yo house and the Quick Step has handled this very well. Putting it on a slab (as you will probably do in a new house) will be a really stable base.

As an example of the durability, DH once fell over in his shower chair which is stainless steel tubing and to get him out of it I had to swivel the chair on the floor with my 80-90kg DH's weight on it, and there is not a SINGLE mark on the flooring. Try doing that with carpet, lino, cork or floor boards!

There are other cheaper brands of flooring like this but I don't believe they come close to Quick Step in terms of durability of finish and ability to lock pieces securely together (I can't remember the load rating of Quick Step joins but it's pretty high).

If you have any qns or want to come for a look even, just send me a PM.



Steph
DD Alex (March 04)

Hi Michelle,

I'm not sure what sort of flooring you're talking about exactly but.........we have flooring in our house that looks like wooden floorboards, but is actually vinyl.

It's strips of vinyl cut to look like individual floorboards, each with different grain etc, and laid to look like wooden flooring too. We were surprised to learn that it actually wasn't a wooden floor when we bought the place a couple of months ago. People who visit are also surprised to learn that it's not actually wood.

I couldn't tell you what it's called, because we didn't lay it. It's super easy to look after though, looks much nicer than regular vinyl, so we're happy.

We had the laminate strips similar to Emjay installed last
year, I agree they look great, but I find they are sometimes
hard to clean, some foods just seem to stick & I really have to
rub hard to get it off, jelly is the worst.

After we had it installed DS # 1 went through the stage of
having to drag everything around e.g his little table & chair
(plastic) which has left scratches in it.

Thanks everyone for your replies. We are getting the Quick step laminate flooring so your review Steph was great because a lot of people kept telling us that tiles were better (even though they knew nothing about laminate flooring).
It does look really good and for us works out a little bit cheaper than tiles - now all we have to do is decide on a colour.
Thanks again
Michelle

Me Shelly
DP Ian
DD Maddison Grace
13 June 2004