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FlippinEll · 2021-02-12T17:19:28+00:00

Ordered our new chevron floor and loved it, the pictures online it all blended together and looked somewhat like a real wood floor and I've been so excited but seeing it fitted all I can is see the joins. You can so clearly see the tiles. It looks awful, doesn't it?

Bulldoglady · 13/02/2021 09:45

@Shrivelled

There’s only so much that can be achieved with plastic squares that are trying to look like wood. It’s never going to look like an engineered wood floor if that’s what you were expecting.

This ^

blisstwins · 13/02/2021 09:53

@MaMaD1990

I didn't even notice until I'd read your post!

I had to read to know what was wrong. It is lovely.

Whatthebloodyell · 13/02/2021 10:09

I think it looks lovely and smart and clean and new. Yes it looks like tiles, but it is tiles. I really don’t think it will be worth the bother and expense to get it altered, when it is still going to look like tiles and the end of the day! I think stand back and
Look at the kitchen as a whole and appreciate how lovely and new and bright and clean it is and be happy with the whole effect.

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FlippinEll · 13/02/2021 10:27

I just didn't think it would be so obvious. It looks cheap to me and I'm gutted

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Oblomov21 · 13/02/2021 10:29

I'm sorry, I agree with OP and think the overall effect is not as good as it could be. I'd be unhappy.

ANewDawnANewDay · 13/02/2021 10:34

I couldn't see the joins till I rtft and went back to look again.
They don't stand out at all.

Candleabra · 13/02/2021 10:56

I think it looks nice, I would try not to be too upset, especially if you don't have the budget for real parquet flooring. It's like upsetting yourself for no reason.
(I do this with many aspects of life, I'm never happy with anything I do - it doesn't lead to a life of contentment). Enjoy your nice new kitchen.

peachgreen · 13/02/2021 11:10

It's been incorrectly fitted. I'd be getting them back to refit according to the instructions.

Mamette · 13/02/2021 11:16

@Whatthebloodyell

I think it looks lovely and smart and clean and new. Yes it looks like tiles, but it is tiles. I really don’t think it will be worth the bother and expense to get it altered, when it is still going to look like tiles and the end of the day! I think stand back and Look at the kitchen as a whole and appreciate how lovely and new and bright and clean it is and be happy with the whole effect.

What a lovely post. I aspire to this level of maturity and perspective.

I also have a new kitchen OP, and I have had several things turn out differently to what I thought they would. Honestly you have to give it a few days and see if the rage fades. If it’s still niggling you next week you will have to weigh up the hassle of changing it against how annoyed you are.

I would contact the suppliers now though, and say you believe it’s two different batches and that it hasn’t been laid as it should. Mark their cards that you may be back to have it rectified after you’ve considered the situation.

justanotherneighinparadise · 13/02/2021 11:51

We used polyflor laminate that’s laid down in strips. I can see the joins if I stare at it. But it’s robust, doesn’t show dirt, hasn’t lifted, i fucking love it! If someone came in and started analysing it I’m sure they could find fault. We can find fault in most things if we scrutinise it. My focus would be if the joins could cause an issue with cleaning? Is the floor up to the job in terms of coping with liquid spill and the ability to keep it hygienic. If the answer is yes then over time your eye won’t be drawn to the joins.

PurplePansy05 · 13/02/2021 12:11

But OP, in the nicest possible way, you bought cheap flooring which looks like on the website, I'm really not sure what else you expected.

MiniCooperLover · 13/02/2021 12:37

I don't think it looks awful OP, it's a nice floor, just jot quite what you were hoping for. This is our Karndean floor and it was single tiles laid together.

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FlippinEll · 13/02/2021 13:20

Just seen the Karndean ones and I'm gutted, they're perfect and much more what I had in mind. Just ordered some samples of them and will get a quote from there, I definitely can't live with this. It's throughout the downstairs and as silly as it may sound it's making me want to cry!

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MiniCooperLover · 13/02/2021 13:40

I'm sorry OP, I didn't post my pictures to make you feel bad, just for comparison. I honestly don't think your floor looks that bad.

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FlippinEll · 13/02/2021 13:49

@MiniCooperLover

I'm sorry OP, I didn't post my pictures to make you feel bad, just for comparison. I honestly don't think your floor looks that bad.

It's ok, I've been scouring the internet all night and discovered the Karndean small plank lime washed oak which would of been perfect! Waiting for samples this time to make sure before I go ahead, lesson learned but if I like it I think we're just going to go for it. I just don't think I'll get used to this and we've spent so much on this house I don't really want to have to get used to it, I want to love it!

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Nacreous · 13/02/2021 15:18

Given it doesn't look like they have fitted it as per the instructions do you think it's worth asking them to do that instead before you get a whole new floor? I think it would be much less obvious with the lines broken up, and they shouldn't have fitted it outside the instructions in the first place?

Bluntness100 · 13/02/2021 15:44

Op, I think it’s the light in thr comparitive pics you’re showing, people are wrong when they are saying it’s being laid incorrectly and then posting pics of real wood floors. I think it’s been laid correctly it’s just that’s what it is.

This is a relatively inexpensive flooring you’ve picked. It was never going to look like Karndean which is more than double the price for all the materials alone, before all the fitting costs, which is usually in the region of a further 30 per square metre. It’s an expensive option.

MiniCooperLover · 13/02/2021 16:12

Hopefully you might be able to recoup some of the cost by having the existing floor taken up carefully and sold on. Hope you can find someone selling it at a good price: ours was about £70 a square metre.

Toorapid · 13/02/2021 16:15

It's obviously not a solid wood floor but it doesn't look awful.

HumourReplacementTherapy · 13/02/2021 17:47

Try living with it for a few months. I know it's not turned out how you wanted but when things go wrong, it's all you can focus on at first.
We had some mosaic tiles fitted in our kitchen years ago. The timer made a tight old balls up of them. You can see the squares of tiles and they look shite! ( mine not yours)
I lived with it but it was a lesson learned.
I'm not sure what karndean is but sounds like it's gonna cost you

TheSandman · 13/02/2021 19:02

It's ok, I've been scouring the internet all night and discovered the Karndean small plank lime washed oak which would of been perfect! Waiting for samples this time to make sure before I go ahead, lesson learned but if I like it I think we're just going to go for it. I just don't think I'll get used to this and we've spent so much on this house I don't really want to have to get used to it, I want to love it!

This is starting to look like you've got more money than sense. Have you really got nothing better to spend your time and money on than your kitchen floor? As HumourReplacementTherapy says just live with it. OK, its not what you dreamed of but it's not a disaster.

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FlippinEll · 13/02/2021 20:50

@TheSandman

It's ok, I've been scouring the internet all night and discovered the Karndean small plank lime washed oak which would of been perfect! Waiting for samples this time to make sure before I go ahead, lesson learned but if I like it I think we're just going to go for it. I just don't think I'll get used to this and we've spent so much on this house I don't really want to have to get used to it, I want to love it!

This is starting to look like you've got more money than sense. Have you really got nothing better to spend your time and money on than your kitchen floor? As HumourReplacementTherapy says just live with it. OK, its not what you dreamed of but it's not a disaster.

Honestly I don't care, we've built this house from scratch and have infested so much money and time and I want it to be perfect. It won't be a waste to love my home. This is throughout the whole downstairs, I don't want to grin and bare it.

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PCar20 · 13/02/2021 20:57

I couldn’t live with this either OP. It looks really cheap. What a bummer I think you’re doing the right thing to replace it.

LittleRen · 13/02/2021 21:17

I get it OP. We got ceramic tiles in our kitchen and I hated them, it was all I could see... replaced them with amtico a year later and it’s so much better and we love it. We did also have original impractical wooden parquet which we had in the diner part of the kitchen and I wanted it the same so there was a secondary reason.

You will always see the joins and you probably won’t get used to it.

I know someone posted their karndean but this is our amtico tile to give you an idea.

Mumtofourandnomore · 13/02/2021 23:38

I would definitely take it up with the fitters, the tiles will be a repeating pattern and they’ve laid them in the wrong order - it’s obvious, maybe other people can’t see it. Each tile should match up with the one next to it - kind of like a logic puzzle. Your tiles have been laid down randomly. I have to say that I laid the quickstep myself (my diy skills are average) so I think the fitters should come round and do it again, it doesn’t take long, although because of repeating patter nature of it they won’t be able to reuse bits they’ve cut up..... Fwiw, I have Amtico in our front room which has much higher traffic and I like that too.