What flooring - hallway and kitchen

[AwkwardPaws27]

We're hopefully extending the kitchen so there's room for a table, & once that's done we'll finally decorate the hallway. I'm unsure on flooring for both.

Edwardian semi, was thinking of potentially having a patterned tile floor in the hallway - or do I want LVT /Amtico/ Karndean? I think they do patterned options although quite pricey.

Kitchen - both clumsy so leaning away from tiles, as much as I like them. First baby on the way, so needs to be easy to clean!

We also have a dog who sadly has an immune condition and is on high doses of steroids. This means he cannot always hold his wee, so I definitely don't want something like laminate where urine could seep through if he has an accident.
He's only 1, we're slowly reducing the medication but there is a real possibility that we won't be able to stop the meds completely or that he may relapse in future, so I think I do need to consider this possibility with regard to flooring.

Bumping for the evening crowd 🙂

Are tiles not your only impermeable option? I think anything that won’t allow leaking through is going to be pretty solid,like a polished concrete or something?

I thought LVT was sealed but guessing I'm wrong? Eek.
Might have to be tiles then...

I’d go for an amtico/lvt option. Forgiving for your clumsiness. Warm for crawling baby’s knees. Washable for incontenent dog. And you can literally have any design you like.

Cork is amazing , warm cushioned and affordable and range of shades from very light to very dark
Also sustainable and good for planet

Also rubber !
More expensive but trendy and you can tile with it huge range of colours

I’ve got LVT in the hallway and very large diner kitchen and I’m so pleased with it. I live on a single track and the carpet I had just got dirtier and dirtier. Now I just sweep every other day and mop once a week. They put a self-levelling screed down and then glue the LVT pieces down, so it won’t lift if the dog has accidents. I went for Polyflor Georgian Oak and it cost under £3k all in. Friend has had the lighter oak down for about six years and it looks as good as the day she had it laid.

@butterflyfox

I’d go for an amtico/lvt option. Forgiving for your clumsiness. Warm for crawling baby’s knees. Washable for incontenent dog. And you can literally have any design you like.

This should totally be the next Karndean advert

www.colourflooring.co.uk/collections/rubber-flooring
I loved this company

Here you go - my hallway. Have posted it before but I’m evangelical about it

@WhatDidISayAlan

Here you go - my hallway. Have posted it before but I’m evangelical about it

That's beautiful! Thank you for sharing; I'd love something like this in the kitchen diner.

That is lovely @WhatDidISayAlan

No recommendations on the flooring, but we use a washable pee pad with a disposable pee pad on for our dog. She vary rarely uses it, but did pee on it nightly when she was on steroids for a week (limping)
Perhaps your dog could be trained to do so. Best wishes to you and your dog by the way.

We have Livyn Quick Step, it's brilliant! Really great finish and look.

We have solid oak (sealed) in our kitchen/diner which is beautiful and washable.
Tiny patterned coloured tiles in the hallway to suit the era of the house (similar era to yours). I love both

Would you consider plain old vinyl? I think there are loads of pattern options. We replaced some vinyl with Karndean last year, and while I love the look of the LVT, it’s definitely slippier underfoot than the vinyl (our dog tends to go sliding around a bit when she gets the zoomies).

@toldgoodDog

No recommendations on the flooring, but we use a washable pee pad with a disposable pee pad on for our dog. She vary rarely uses it, but did pee on it nightly when she was on steroids for a week (limping) Perhaps your dog could be trained to do so. Best wishes to you and your dog by the way.

Thank you. We've tried the disposable ones but when we use them, he goes on them every night. If we don't put a pad down, he can hold it about 5/7 nights, it's only 1-2 nights a week where he doesn't manage - so I'm a little reluctant to put pads down all the time.

@Vinniepolis

Would you consider plain old vinyl? I think there are loads of pattern options. We replaced some vinyl with Karndean last year, and while I love the look of the LVT, it’s definitely slippier underfoot than the vinyl (our dog tends to go sliding around a bit when she gets the zoomies).

Thank you - I might have another look at this for the kitchen. It's what we have at the moment and looks awful, but I think that's mostly because the subfloor is so lumpy and uneven! It would probably look a lot better on a new screed.

Oh I see awkwardpaws. Aren't dogs brilliant? I am always impressed that my old girl uses pee pads on the rare occasion, as we have carpet.

Do not get rubber! Firstly the floor has to be screed to be absolutely level and it’s not at all hardwaring We had it in our old kitchen and it looked so old and tatty after about a year. It also bleaches lighter places if you so much as leave a splash of water: something damp on it.