Good ol’ vinyl wood-lookalike planks. Cheap to buy, cheap to install, easy to repair without tearing up the whole floor, glues right down to the beautiful hardwood underneath.
Here these are usually wood composite boards with a layer of veneer on top. Technically wooden floors, but not actually. Still a major step up from plastic floors.
Why was this downvoted? I’m genuinely asking. If you manage to damage your rental apartment’s floor with moisture here you’re basically criminally negligent and fucked financially.
You’ve never come in to a house with wet shoes or clothes? Or spilled a drink? There’s a ton of ways for the floor to get wet that isn’t “criminally negligent or fucked”.
You leave wet shoes in the vestibule and dry the spilled drink with a towel or something. Even student houses use wooden laminate these days here, because no one is paying decent rent for an apartment with crack den floors.
You’re not supposed to glue them. It’s a “floating” floor meaning it needs to be allowed to expand and contract according to temperature and humidity. If you glue it down it’ll start bulging and joints will open up. I install these for a living and the manufacturer instructions specifically forbid the use of glue.
Relatively cheap to install especially when it can be laid over the old flooring but it’s not exactly cheap to buy though. Personally I vastly prefer the feel of LVP to laminate or parquet. It feels warmer and softer and is also much less slippery and waterproof. As a general contractor I also prefer installing it over the others.
The last time I installed them was a few years ago so “cheap” might have changed since then. But I did a 20’x15’ kitchen all by myself with a pair of scissors for like $300 and about a day’s work. (Though I didn’t put it down over hardwood because I’m not a monster.)
Good ol’ vinyl wood-lookalike planks. Cheap to buy, cheap to install, easy to repair without tearing up the whole floor, glues right down to the beautiful hardwood underneath.
No wonder landlords love them
Here these are usually wood composite boards with a layer of veneer on top. Technically wooden floors, but not actually. Still a major step up from plastic floors.
You’re talking engineered wood floors and the other guy is talking about luxury vinyl plank (LVP).
Landlord Vinyl Plank, I call it
Not a good option, especially for a rental. They bubble up when it gets wet. It’s better to install vinyl plank so it doesn’t get destroyed in a year.
why would a floor get wet?
Why was this downvoted? I’m genuinely asking. If you manage to damage your rental apartment’s floor with moisture here you’re basically criminally negligent and fucked financially.
You’ve never come in to a house with wet shoes or clothes? Or spilled a drink? There’s a ton of ways for the floor to get wet that isn’t “criminally negligent or fucked”.
You leave wet shoes in the vestibule and dry the spilled drink with a towel or something. Even student houses use wooden laminate these days here, because no one is paying decent rent for an apartment with crack den floors.
Chaulked right full of urea based glues though. If it’s new sleep with the windows open.
The true landlord way is to not even bother gluing them down so you can keep your tenant’s security deposit for “damaging the floors”
You’re not supposed to glue them. It’s a “floating” floor meaning it needs to be allowed to expand and contract according to temperature and humidity. If you glue it down it’ll start bulging and joints will open up. I install these for a living and the manufacturer instructions specifically forbid the use of glue.
Relatively cheap to install especially when it can be laid over the old flooring but it’s not exactly cheap to buy though. Personally I vastly prefer the feel of LVP to laminate or parquet. It feels warmer and softer and is also much less slippery and waterproof. As a general contractor I also prefer installing it over the others.
The last time I installed them was a few years ago so “cheap” might have changed since then. But I did a 20’x15’ kitchen all by myself with a pair of scissors for like $300 and about a day’s work. (Though I didn’t put it down over hardwood because I’m not a monster.)