Amtico versus Moduleo for kitchen floor?

[polyhymnia]

I’m replacing my kitchen and have decided on a luxury vinyl/ laminate type floor. I’ve had Amtico in bathrooms in our last house and been very pleased with it. So planning to go with that, but my local supplier seems to be pushing Moduleo as better - cheaper I think but not quite sure how it’s supposed to be better in other ways.
Views, please, on your experience with either - or both if you’ve tried both.
TIA

hi poly

is this still a live Q for you, do you still need an answer to this?

Too late, I think. I’ve almost decided!

Hey Poly

A word of advice if it's not too late. The Moduleo product is fine but it's all down to the fitting. Their policy on installers is not as strict as the others and you must have a very flat floor. Theyll charge for screeding but won't check if the flatness is upto the product spec afterwards. Needless to say if the floor isn't very flat you will get gaps between the boards and they'll try and convince you to silicone it, which you don't won't on a bad job that should have been done right. Hope that helps. Just make sure they make sure the floor is flat enough and get it in writing. Check out the other other threads on here there have been lots of posts on it

Hi - looking for some more up to date reviews/experiences with Moduleo flooring. There are a lot of bad reviews but I’m hoping things have changed since the majority of them were posted years ago. (I see an increasing number of shops supplying it - surely they wouldn’t do that if all they got were complaints?). TIA

We are just waiting for a price quote tomorrow for Amtico flooring. We chose Amitico over Moduleo as that is the colour we like. I saw the negative reviews too and spoke to the flooring company and asked if they had any problems but they said none. I too thought that Modeleo wouldn’t be supplied if the product was rubbish. If the price quote tomorrow is too much then I will take another look at Moduleo.

Thanks @LindaDawn. I think I’ve looked at every Karndean and Amtico board available and lugged half of them home with me and back again 🤪.

I keep coming back to a particular Moduleo colour and I like the plank variation and the texture. The shop that laid my Amtico a few years ago has stopped dealing with them and only supplies Moduleo now! So can’t be that bad??

I’m wondering if the bad experiences are from people fitting it themselves rather than using an experienced fitter. 🤷🏻‍♀️

Reading this with interest as I've been through this the wrong way and learned all the lessons.

There are 2 key things to get right.

1st is ensuring the floor it's laid on is flat and free of moisture. It needs a spirit level and hygrometer to assess it.

The 2nd thing is having a fitter who knows that, checks it and ensures the floor meets the British Standard that is quoted in the technical specs.

These floors have a very low margin of error for fitting.if there is just a small amount of unevenness in the floor it can throw the edges out and look terrible.

It's easy to get away with ignoring this in a newer build house but harder in an older one.

We had several people come and quote, even from a major carpet retailer that prides itself on doing it right, at least for carpets, that didn't check the evenness of the floor, and only checked the moisture on prompting.

My advice is to watch how the people quoting you assess the floor and you'll know if they know what they are doing.

It can all go wrong from there.

We have a module floor and the product is fine. But the fitting was done badly, with lots of gaps and movement that could have been avoided had it been fitted correctly.

Hope that helps.

I swear by Karndean.

Thanks @CharlieMN - it is being fitted by the insurers’ contractors so I guess if anything goes wrong my discussions will be with them. He’s already been round and spotted potential pitfalls so I’m feeling quite good about him.

Our carpet fitter said we will have to wait to lay it it if our screed isn’t the fast drying screed. I have every confidence in them.

May I ask which zModuloe you like please. My Amtico,is Zpowdered Oak. It is incrediblely hard trying to choose.

We’ve got moduleo and it’s crap, I can’t wait to rip it out. Had Amtico in my old house and it still looked as good 6 years old.

We’ve got moduleo….been down 8 years….still looks like it was laid yesterday…
and cheaper than amtico

It’s Blackjack Oak 22220. Was also looking at Amtico Muted Oak. Yes - v hard!! 🙈😆

Hi @Softpebbles :(

Can I ask crap in what way? Was it fitted by the supplier? Have you complained? Tia.

It’s not Amtico Muted Oak!! It’s Amtico Powdered Oak.

i know… I just meant Muted Oak was another that was in the running for us if we decided against Mod. 😆

Good to know - thank you!

We have Moduleo Country Oak. Laid in 2020, still looks brand new. We're so happy with it that we're having the entire downstairs of our new house done in it again.

That’s fantastic to hear - thank you!

Do you have straight planks or herringbone?

@MrsSubsidence it’s peeled up in loads of places. The glue seems to have seeped through and is a nightmare to clean off and where we had an issue they apparently can’t match the colour, despite being less than 18 months old, led to a huge headache.

Oh no - that’s not good at all. I can see why you’d be fed up. What did your fitter say?

@MrsSubsidence we have straight planks, and will do again.

Sorry I came across rude in my post. I have reread and realise what you were saying. Text is open to missunderstanding!

Not at all. Please don’t worry. And yes, texts can be tricky 🙂