Pro's & cons? I know the vinyl is water proof but the wood looks so much better
Let me just save you a bunch of hours looking at the various vinyl plank stuff and share what we put down in our whole downstairs. I spent months researching and looking at flooring products. You want a rigid SPC board, that's stone plastic composite. Its 70% stone dust extruded with pvc. Its heavy, waterproof and not suspectible to warpage from direct sunlight like floppy vinyl plank is. Its rigid so it doesn't telegraph anything beneath the floor through over time (no sagging). Super scratch resistant as we have a dog and it hasn't shown a single scratch.country squirrell said:
Pro's & cons? I know the vinyl is water proof but the wood looks so much better
IMHO, No such thing as "higher end stuff" when it comes to vinyl. Vinyl is vinyl. Looks like vinyl, walks like vinyl, wears like vinyl. Would not touch a new home with that stuff installed with a ten foot poll. Imagine paying for it for 30 years.rsa said:
A number of our local builders are using the higher end (not the stuff you buy from the liquidator warehouse) vinyl planking in their new homes. Looks great, wears well, and is softer and quieter under foot. The higher end engineered wood products are strong and look great, but they do tend to be noisier when walking on them than the vinyl planks.
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Looked like flooring in the entrance of a Walmart. Or a new trailer house.
Now people are being snobs about flooring. Not everyone lives in a multi-million dollar house with an unlimited renovation budget.Quote:
Triple the price.
TAMC11 said:
Alright fancy pants. It's a value engineering item. Interested to hear if you have any legitimate gripes about it other than "it's vinyl".