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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
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When we actually came to purchase they were the only engineered small parquet tiles with a 6mm toplayer. Pretty much everyone had switched to 3mm. So it was them or a solid wood install from a supplier and fitter which was ~£3k more.
Feel free to msg if I can help. My OH did all of the heavy lifting on this so I might have to go back and double check things.
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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