Flooring in new builds?

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Hi,
I'm buying a newbuild and flooring in all rooms (except kitchen and bathroom aren't included).

My dad tells me (rolly eye emoji) that it's best not to spend too much initially as the concrete and building needs to dry out for up to a year before installing the forever flooring.

Has anyone been in this position? Have any advice? How have you covered the concrete in the interim?

Thanks

We're getting a new build next year

Carpets are ok as they can breathe but any hard floor needs a layer of DPV (I think it's called) to stop the damp

We're not going with the developers for our floors (none are included!!) and the company we will use has said this to us

That’s interesting about carpets. Is the underlay breathable?

I’d like wooden flooring ultimately but could live with a cheap, neutral carpet for a year.

Is vinyl breathable? I’m guessing not?

We're in a newbuild and have cushion vinyl downstairs (had a quote for amtico at the time which was £22k just for downstairs which was really beyond our budget) and good quality 80/20 carpets upstairs. Vinyl in bathrooms. No issues. The floorer (independent) did a screed downstairs before installing the vinyl. Vinyl is glued down.

To add we moved in 3.5years ago

I think we were advised against tiles but we had carpet and LVT fitted with no issues.

We bought a new build and had wooden flooring put in straight away without any problems. Been here for almost 9 years.

@coolpattern

That’s interesting about carpets. Is the underlay breathable?

I’d like wooden flooring ultimately but could live with a cheap, neutral carpet for a year.

Is vinyl breathable? I’m guessing not?

From what I understand on the carpet yes

But vinyl no as it's sealed or something

Most new builds 'should' be treated but the company we've contacted said they've been told it has on several occasions and it hasn't so now check beforehand

Sorry to resurrect, but interested...what should be treated exactly? The concrete? Treated with what? Must remember to ask the builders!

When we had a conservatory built we had to leave the concrete for a minimum of 6 months before laying engineered wood (we left it about 9 months) . IIRC it would have been a shorter time for ceramic tiles.

We moved into our new build 2 months ago. We got the builder to do all our flooring as we didn't live in the region and wanted to move straight in. It was nice to walk in on day one and it was all done, and to a high standard. Our neighbours on the other hand decided to buy flooring elsewhere. Not sure if was because of cost or limited choices but they got their keys same time as us. They still only have concrete downstairs as their floors haven't been laid yet. If you arrange your own flooring you need to level the concrete for things like laminate.