Anyone regretted wooden floor in KITCHEN?

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Anyone regretted putting wooden floor in kitchen? Have to decide whether or not to put engineered tongue & groove in a small kitchen as well as other rooms.

Currently there are tiles in there which look good and are hard wearing.

Please give me pros and cons ?
Many thanks 😊

God yes. Ours is coming up, fitted wrong and full of gaps

I have wood in my kitchen, but behind the island (where all the cooking/washing up happens) I have tiles as wood gets a bit knackered from spitting fat/water. I like the look of having both!

We didn’t fit ours was already there. It doesn’t wear well and we want underfloor heating when we renovate the kitchen, so it will be tile for us. Engineered floorboards have been brilliant in the hall, but a small kitchen gets a different order of wear and tear.

Old house had it and was lovely - we varnished it and it lasted fine for the 10 or so years we were there and still looked lovely at end. Was solid wood rather than engineered.

This house we have a tiled floor and nearly changed it to wood but were very lucky we didn't, there is a bathroom above it and DS flooded the bathroom and went through the ceiling to floor below. Tiles were fine but not sure wood would have survived.

We had wood in the kitchen and bathrooms. It warped and marked with water and was difficult to keep clean in the kitchen with food spills. We replaced it with wood effect porcelain tiles. They are easy to clean and look great.

Not a single regret. We have dark engineered wood boards. They're lovely and still look great after 4 years of being down.

We’ve had it for 5 years now. No regrets. No issues.

I've had a couple of floods in the kitchen (one was from a faulty brand new dishwasher) so I was very glad not to have a wooden floor.

om goodness, so sorry you have that problem

Oooh could I asked which ones you have please? Thinking of doing the same!

I’ll try and add the link
https://www.wallsandfloors.co.uk/rustic-wood-tiles-oak-wood-tiles

My sister dropped a jar of beetroot on hers and it was wrecked, but prior to that once wet started to move and become unlevel

she replaced it with a really good quality vinyl that looks like wood.

This is almost the.same as the one we have put down. My husband is a joiner so it has been fitted properly, no warning, movement and several parties later it's fine.
https://flooring365.co.uk/catalogsearch/result/?q=antique+oak+distressed

We have engineered herringbone in our kitchen, I love it. It hasn’t been down long so will have to see how it holds up, but it was very well installed (glued down) and looks great.

Mine were in my house when I bought it almost 20 years ago - they are still going strong. I love them! Sure they have a few nicks and gaps but nothing major, but I'm not bothered by small imperfections, and I prefer them to tile (which I do have in my bathroom).

I've got a small kitchen and I don't like to cook so I've got laminate. It potentially won't wear well although we had it in our rental and it was fine. Its open plan here and I like it to look plain and the same.

Those wood effect tiles are stunning!

Amtico and Karndean will last better. Obviously not wood. It can be great but not if you are messy and I like big format ceramic.

Solid wood here, love the look, but it hasn’t worn well and it’s a big area to try to sand and varnish again. Faded in the dining area under the roof lantern, scratched under breakfast bar stools, heels also mark it - I’d definitely get the wood effect ceramic tiles next time, think they look really effective.

We have engineered oak herringbone.

pros: easy to clean and looks wonderful
con: more solid things dropped on it do tend to put small dents in it (quite a few round the dishwasher where various items of cutlery have been dropped). However, I understand you can get more hard wearing versions of this flooring.

My pal laid Moduleo in her ground floor hall and kitchen and it looks great and is super hard wearing.

https://www.best4flooring.co.uk/moduleo-layred-herringbone-blackjack-oak-22210?gadsource=1&gadcampaignid=18026717642&gbraid=0AAAAAD1N4ALhJb9QKEyAp55Hm4ItAKQVX&gclid=CjwKCAjwqJXUBhBNEiwA8BgG7unETvFJ9UHj385AWHbNKojnBKFI0UuGSYzDR352mthkKs4hmrIyPRoCMdgQAvDBwE

Same. Love it still

We have engineered oak flooring. It’s five years old and no issues at all.

We had solid wood throughout the ground floor of a lovely old house in America. However, while the rest of the wood was oaf, the kitchen was maple. This was said to be because maple was harder and wore better.

Our friend who knew something about old houses thought it was original but had been refinished once or twice. In 100 years.
It had held up beautifully. And we are heavy kitchen users.

But we had the same problem with a wood floor in a bathroom here (luckily a rental) as PP. When we renovated one of our own bathrooms, we used wood effect tiles similar to what @Florence1997 has posted. They have worked well.

Everyone advised us not to get engineered wood for the kitchen and we didn't. But I wish we had now. My neighbours have it and it's been fine.

An example of my small dents here.

We got Amtico which has worn brilliantly to be fair (not at all in three years) but I don't like the look of it