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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
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I was gonna drop you a DM actually as the place you got your tiles from was on our list. Weirdly there’s some solid wood options that aren’t too much more than engineered, but I was under the impression that’s a bad move for the kitchen.
Fitting is part of the kitchen fit and some other stuff so it’s not £ks, but I take your point there
jackbepablo
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