Laminate Flooring or Fitted Carpet

[Selby White]

Our Lounge carpet is overdue changing and we are deciding whether to go along the Laminate Flooring route.

What have you got or prefer?

Advantages or disadvantages?

[NottinghamWhite]

We have laminate in the kitchen, lino ( I’m sure it’s called summart else ) in the bathroom & carpet everywhere else.

[yorkfan]

Laminate flooring looks great, helped out with some strategically placed rugs, to liven things up, but be aware, it does need regular cleaning, to avoid the dreaded tumbleweeds of dust which seem to gather in the corners!

[johnh]

In the midst of freezing winter you can't beat fitted carpet. As Yorkfan says, laminate does require a regular (almost daily) clean.

[ChilwellWhite]

Not a laminate floor fan if I’m honest, too noisy.

[Deleted User 728]

I've got a mixture in my flat - upstairs I stripped and varnished the floorboards, but downstairs there's underfloor heating, so it's concrete with tiling over the top. I've got tiling in the kitchen, carpet in the hallway and living room.

Regarding keeping the wooden floors clean, I've got a big "Henry" hoover for the proper going-over - once a week usually - and a cordless jobbie for the whoosh around upstairs, and I do need both especially now I've got two cats.

[Deleted User 728]

Not a laminate floor fan if I’m honest, too noisy.

Yeah, your high heels look nice but they do tend to make a racket, don't they ?

[Davycc]

Only place we have carpet now is on the stairs and landing. Tiles in kitchen and bathroom and laminate everywhere else. It does indeed need a regular hoover and we also use one of those steam jobbies peace of mind the floors are clean for the ankle biters.

[Selby White]

Thanks Everyone interesting about the cleaning had thought the carpet would need cleaning more. We are currently working our way through the house and its a real toss of a coin whether its carpet again or Laminate Wood Flooring.

Was a new bathroom last year and we are in the process of new windows (ordered) and a new kitchen is been planned, so then the lounge & hallway carpets if the budget allows

[johnh]

We have fitted carpets everywhere except for bathroom, en-suite and downstairs toilet which are tiled. The kitchen/dining room is half fitted carpet and half linoleum. Its a damn site easier to push the hoover around on the carpets than washing the tiles and linoleum.