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HIgher price laminate or lower price semi-solid?

  • 30-03-2013 1:49pm
    #1
    tea and coffee
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,843 ✭✭✭


    If you had to choose one above the other, which would you for? Or something else??
    LOoking at a antique oak effect or walnut (something on the daarker scale of things)...for a hall opening out into living dining....

    Thanks


    Say €20-30 per sq yd....would be the budget.


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  • #2
    brop
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 25 ✭brop


    In my own experience for durability you can't beat a high price laminate, you don't have to worry about wear and tear and dents with it, even though I do like the look of semi it definitely doesn't look as sharp 5-10 years down the line

    Balterio flooring has stood the test of time for me in a few different houses, they have a great selection of finishes and plank sizes and they come with 10, 20 or 25 year guarantees, floor design just off the long mile road stock it all and I found them far cheaper than anywhere like carpetright or other flooring stores as they supply balterio to the shops! Our walnut finish wide plank with groove and 20 year guarantee worked out at approx €14 a meter square( great price considering the same floor was being sold for €26 in carpet right


  • #3
    tea and coffee
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,843 ✭✭✭tea and coffee


    Thanks that was my thought too but OH is obsessed wth idea of getting "real wood". Don't think it will last the pace though, even though the look is fabulous.
    I love the Junckers wide plank solid wood but I think I will probably faint when I go to Brooks and see the price!


  • #4
    Elottois
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 64 ✭✭Elottois


    I'd be of the same opinion as your other half and opt for the real deal. There are plethora of good deals to be had when it comes to wooden flooring. When we were completing our house we purchased engineered wide board smoked oak.
    I fell in love with the look in a show room in Dublin, priced at €120 per square metre, eventually sourced the same brand elsewhere and negotiated to €45 per square metre.
    My take on it is if you can afford it, put wooden floors in your living areas where you spend most of your time and put laminate in the bedrooms. Underlay is key too. Don't scrimp, as you will regret it down the line.


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