Help me with flooring please!

[DeLaRuiz]

I need to redo hall, stairs, landing, and three bedrooms. There’s a Tapi nearby, but I have heard they are super expensive. Everything is currently fitted carpets. Could someone explain how it works if one has a mixture of vinyl flooring laid and then carpet .. how does the join work? I saw nice looking wood planks in Tapi.. why are they varying in price so much? Would you have wood vinyl laid in a bedroom, and then a rug?
Basically I’m wanting to chat about how I should go about this… the easiest thing would be to have everything recarpeted.. but our cats are old and scratch everything in sight.. it seems like a good idea to try something new, but we know nothing about it!

We had a good experience with Tapi and both times they gave us a good discount. We bought the LVT click in a nice wood and it’s great. We’ve got it throughout, even in bathroom, and it’s good in bedrooms and living room with a rug on it. The place looks
more spacious done throughout in the same “wood”.

They are called thresholds, you can buy them from any DIY or carpet store to join same or different floor surfaces and cut to size
I've got expensive engineered planks that click together: scratched badly already.
Same in kitchen and hall. Original floorboards in bedroom, vinyl in bathroom, carpet in dining room, stairs and landing and remaining bedrooms

Oh, good to know, thanks! How did you choose which range of the wood? They vary in price, and despite reading the blurb I couldn’t really ascertain difference, in practical terms. How did they give you a discount?
can I ask, what have you got on your stairs? I wondered what to do if I get the hall and landing done in “ wood”.

Scratched badly! How annoying! I wonder would that be even more annoying than a cat scratched moth eaten carpet!

So the thresholds.. yes.. at the moment we have carpet everywhere and gold bars - as it were- on the floor between rooms. It works because carpets are all the same thickness. The planks in the shop looked a bit thicker than carpet, I thought, and of course not flexible enough to push under a rod with nails through it?!

Beat to go into a shop and they’ll explain - some we liked weren’t suitable to lay in our place. We are on one level so no stairs.

Ok yes, Thankyou! I will do. 👍🏻

If you have different flooring types that are all different sizes, they use what are called “reducers” they are similar to the gold ones that you have the differences that underneath they have different sizes on both sides so the flooring can fit under that and have a flush top. It’s not something that you need to worry about to be honest whoever is fitting your flooring will complete that for you. All you need to decide whether you want wooden ones or metal ones.

Let the carpet fitters deal with the joins. They will be able to do it with a different version of the gold bars you currently have - you may well have a slight height difference tho, but the threasholds deal with that too.

Personally, I would never have a hard floor in a bedroom again - but we had tiles (not uk) which might make a big difference. It was hard to make the room "soft" and dropping anything made a big noise!

We have just had a fabulous experience with a small, independent, carpet shop. If you've got a highly recommended local one, I'd suggest going for a look.

We have LVT in the bedrooms, it's super easy to keep clean (DCs are messy) but a pain in the arse as you can always see dust balls under the beds - they weren't as evident with carpet!
LVT is also a pain when DCs are charging around upstairs - sounds like a herd of wildebeest - but don't regret changing to it.

They can use something like a wedge/reducing floor bar where there is a significant difference in floor heights.

Ohhhh!! Thankyou for explaining. Gosh i can’t believe I didn’t know this!

I would always go to a range of flooring retailers. The small independents can provide more advice, but Tapi does offer credit and if you time it right, big discounts at sale time.

LVT is great but get it fitted professionally and if you want it to last then look at brands like Amtico or Karndean. More per sq meter, but they have better after sales service.

This is a useful site www.homebuilding.co.uk/advice/flooring