Seems like a terrible idea to me.

You make one mistake one time and bingo, you cost yourself a few grand to have it sanded, leveled, varnished, and polished.

  • Lord Wiggle
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    In Brittain they often have carpet in the toilet. How tf do you clean that, it will get soaked with piss, you dirty fucking Brits.

    • @[email protected]
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      Welcome to the 70’s-80’s when carpeting was de rigueur for bathrooms and kitchens.

      Fun story … my son was a climber so all food was in the highest cupboards. One time I needed a bathroom break, and in under 5 minutes he’d dragged a kitchen chair to the counter, climbed up, took down the flour and dumped it all over his little sister. Honest to gawd all I could see of her was her dark eyes in a cloud of white.

      And just to boost his creativeness here, he decided to move the chair to the sink, grabbed a cup of water and they started making flour pies on the carpet.

      Gotta love kids!

      • Lord Wiggle
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        I have 3 kittens in their puberty, that’s already more then I can handle. I’m skipping kids.

      • @eskimofry
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        You think flushing doesn’t sprinkle toilet water everywhere?

      • Lord Wiggle
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        Whenever a man is peeing standing up, droplets will spread around the toilet. Over the years, the buildup will be horribly unhealthy and disgusting. But for Brits who already never wash their hands, it may not be such big of a deal.

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          Then just don’t pee standing up, I’m a dude and when I’m at comfort of my home I always choose to sit on my toilet. It’s so much better that way, much more comfortable and less messy.

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    I thought most people have tiles or vinyl/linoleum for their kitchen floor. Still, you do know that you can just remove and replace the damaged floorboard instead of sanding and varnishing the entire floor, right?

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    If your one mistake is attacking your floor with sledgehammer or jackhammer, you may have a point.

    Hardwoods & bamboo will weather damn near anything.

    Even dog claws will take a few years before the floor begs for a refinishing.

  • Subverb
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    My wife and I had ceramic tile installed in our kitchen when we remodeled our house. Didn’t like it so four years later we had it torn out and had oak flooring installed. Couldn’t be happier. High quality hardwood floors are really durable.

  • deadcatbounce
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    Same people install white or cream carpets just before they decide to have kids or a party.

  • HubertManne
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    Mostly I have seen it to have seen it with cheaper floating options and even in the bathrooms to have a seemless consistancy throughout a condo. Never seen it done in a house.

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    Wear and tear adds to the charm of a well lived kitchen imo

    • @khannie
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      Couldn’t agree more.

      Our kitchen table was pretty expensive when we got it and is destroyed from a heap of kids use and family meals over about 22 years. It is firmly agreed (by them too) that when my wife and I die it will be the only thing the kids fight over possession of.

  • @474D
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    What the fuck are you doing to your floors?? Hardwood is easy to clean and doesn’t crack like tile.

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      Wasn’t my floor, friend dropped a steak knife which landed tip down, took a big ass chip out of it. Guess they didn’t varnish/seal it, they just stained it?

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        You might look for more competent flooring people.

        When I was working with a 3rd generation hardwood master, we would glue in a replacement chip or swap the board if the chip was huge. And stain to match (if appropriate). And refinish.

        Always, ALWAYS make the finished product an even, flat floor.

        Stained potholes? Wtf ever. Fire that team.

      • @[email protected]
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        If it chipped, then it is likely some kind of vinyl or composite made to look like wood. Nowadays the fake wood looks realistic enough to fool people! But real wood doesn’t chip like that.

  • @[email protected]
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    Hardwood floor sealer exists. It’s called vitrification

    You’d be nuts to install a hardwood floor and not protect it!

  • @AdamEatsAss
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    It looks nice. And if it’s finished well spills will clean if you’re quick.

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        Also, nothing survives a drop to tile, ever. And you’re left trying to clean shards and sauce out of the grout. Fuck my tile.

        • Tony N
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          You should try installing some good ole linoleum. We solved kitchen flooring in the 1860s but people need to install expensive floors that are worse in every way because… why exactly? I don’t know. I have hardwood floors that are 17 years old and they need to be replaced. Linoleum floors last as long as 40 years. I’m thinking of going old school.

          • folkrav
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            Is it solid wood or engineered? Some very soft variety of wood? 17 years is extremely short…

            • Tony N
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              Our old dishwasher and previous cats sped up the process with the one thing that kills hardwood floors.

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            Wow it’s actually 1860. I didn’t know they had plastic that far back. I would have guessed 1950.

            • @ForgotAboutDre
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              Linoleum isn’t plastic, you may be thinking of vinyl flooring which looks similar. Vinyl is cheaper and newer while appearing very similar to linoleum.

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            Since I can’t afford to replace the tile our apartment came with, I got a set of vinyl floor mats and put rug gripper anti-skid pads underneath, the result being like anti-fatigue mats but not as tall, heavy, or ugly. They cover most of the areas I might possibly drop a dish and have already saved one casserole lid. They wipe clean and are easy to move to mop the tile. They won’t last forever but one day I’ll be able to do linoleum.

      • Maeve
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        Wood flexes more, too. Unless it’s on a slab, I guess?

  • @[email protected]
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    You’ve obviously never slid over to the kitchen sink with socks on. Bonus points for doing a spin.

    • @[email protected]OP
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      No, friend dropped a steak knife tip down on theirs, took a chip out of it. From reading comments I guess they must have not sealed/varnished it.

    • @[email protected]
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      No, but cooking pots could fall and those have sharp lips which will indent the floor. Same with other hardware like cutlery.
      And I will handle knives more likely in the kitchen than in the living room.

          • @[email protected]
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            That’s like 5x the cost though and you’re likely to break anything you drop onto it like dishes or bottles.

            Our kitchen has laminate plank flooring and it has held up really well. I believe it’s original which means it’s made it 22ish years so far with part of that time being a rental full of college kids who apparently stored all their literal garbage in the garage and put a bunch of holes in the walls.

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    Our kitchen is integrated into the living room (open kitchen space) and the whole room has hardwood flooring. Due to the room layout it would be hard to establish a “border” where the flooring could change (e.g. tile floor in the kitchen area). It it easier to have one type of flooring across all the room.

    We rent, and unfortunately we were the first ones after the hardwood flooring was put in, which means that every spill and every scratch is on us. We decided not to bother, as every spill leaves a mark (regardless how fast your clean-up effort is), and thus adds character to the floor. It’s a living room after all.

    We know that a chunk of the security deposit will likely be gone if we move out. It would probably be as much money as to have the floor sanded down by ourselves.

    Despite hardwood flooring has some disadvantages regarding spills and scratches, it makes the room much more cozy than any other type of flooring. The most durable type of flooring would be sealed screed flooring you expect in a warehouse. But that wouldn’t look cozy.

    • @[email protected]
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      Every spill leaves a mark?

      Hardwoods need finish coats. Sounds like a real half assed job you’re living with.

    • @[email protected]
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      Spills and dropped items are kind of expected in a kitchen, no? Wouldn’t most of this damage be categorized as normal wear and tear? As a tenant it’s not expected that you hand back the property exactly as it was when you took possession - it’s up to the landlord to budget for normal maintenance.

      • @[email protected]
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        We are on good terms with our landlord, and repairs (mostly heating) are taken care of quickly. So far there are no problems at all. But we like to anticipate the worst. I too believe that spills on a wooden floor in a kitchen are normal wear and tear. I think it all depends on what else in the appartement is worn out (some things even due to real negligence), if we move out any time in the future eventually.