• Kitchen and hallway floor: engineered wood or laminate? We're messy cooks and ride bikes in all conditions so the floor will have a rough life, which seems to have pros and cons each way. not a 40k kitchen but it is over 20 now so I'm battling sunk cost fallacy vs doing it right doing it once

  • Rubber or vinyl could be good hard wearing options. Usual place colour flooring.co.uk

  • Not what you want to hear, but if you can stretch to solid wood I really, really would. Especially if you're talking about 20yrs.

    Our engineered oak floor has a decent thickness of top layer and has defects in some tiles. Solid wood wouldn't have done that.

    That said that hard-core bamboo composite stuff still looks good in my BiL's place and has survived 2 kids growing up and more recently a dog. But it's not cheap.

    Personally I'd only do laminate if I was diy and OK with replacing it down the line. We put it in what was our dressing room, but is now a kids room. I think it's quite effective, but I'd struggle to drop £ks paying someone else to fit it.

    Lux vinyl is a good shout, as is resin. A mate has off white resin in their extension and it looks brilliant. When we looked at it the options, other than laminate (which was actually cheap) every* other option cost about the same.

    *assuming you're not souring tiles from Morocco

  • Forbo marmoleum, like all the cognoscenti

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