Does anyone have a marmoleum or rubber floor? Would you recommend either?

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Thinking of this for when we redo our kitchen (in that imaginary future that makes DH roll his eyes but that provides me with a measure of harmless escapism).

So my question is, is this is good practical hardwearing family floor that scrubs up well, or is it a nightmare for marking etc.

I looked at rubber for my kitchen extension but the work required in getting the subfloor up to scratch didn't make it viable.

I think it looks really good though...but my dh has worked somewhere that had the rubber flooring in a light colour with the discs that are slightly proud in the design and said it hadn't worn well.

Thanks that's good to know - though I don't think it can wear worse than what we have at the minute - a Kars engineered oak that marks every time you drop something on it, despite it having a special extra hard coating - I guess if you don't have kids and aren't clumsy you'd be OK . Very poor and I wouldn't recommend them to anyone esp considering they ain't exactly budget.

I wanna rubber floor!

We had marmoleum in the bathroom of our old house. It is nice enough, and doesn't show the dirt, if you get a mottled colour. But get it fitted by a specialist contractor, ours was done by the builders, who cocked it up.

Planning to get dalsouple rubber in bathroom of new house, but again fitting is for the experts not a general builder. Have taken advice from friends who have it in their bathroom, and they recommended the slightly textured one rather than either the discy one or the completely smooth one, in terms of wearing well and not showing scratches, so I suspect that's what we'll go for.

We have dalsouple rubber flooring in bathrooms. One in hot pink the other in turquoise.

You can't clean it with normal cleaning fluids which is a drag. We have the slightly raised disc ones, they look very good and not too slippy.

My friend has dalsouple rubber in her kitchen. She has the rivets - says they are a nightmare to clean in the kitchen, and I guess you do have to clean a kitchen floor more often than a bathroom floor, so you'll get through loads of the special cleaning fluid. Though have to say it looks very good. But probably don't get raised rivet ones for kitchen because things get stuck on the rivets - but fine for bathroom.

Would you be able to use a steam cleaner on it do you reckon?

A steam cleaner?

I have no idea. Why would you? Don't you use steam cleaners on carpets and fabric? Actually, I know nothing about steam cleaners.

I think you would use a bucket and mop, but with the special cleaning fluid rather than your Sainsbury's floor cleaner type thing?

Do you use a steam cleaner on your wooden floor? Actually what IS a steam cleaner?

I have marmoleum in the kisd bathroom

it is lovely, warm underfoot, easy to clean (I just wipe with hot flannel)

it does get dusty quickly

I wuold deffo have it again

I am having wooden floors ni new kitchen

What is marmoleum as opposed to the rubber floor I have?

See, she wants it in the kitchen. Also Enid, what is a steam cleaner? And also what colour do you have?

I have wooden floors in kitchen.

Let's talk about floors.

I am shrewd enough to realise that they will get knackered, which I want

I am hoping for wide dark boards with underfloor heating, cream cupboards and black aga

[drool]

I presume a steam cleaner is what the cleaning man uses [vague]

Oh lovely. I have blue Aga. And wide oak floor boards, but we stripped back the floorboards in sitting-room and stained them dark. They look good.

We also have white painted floor in hall. How STUPID is that? So stupid, I mostly can't think about it.

I have creamy yellowy flecked marmoleum (very 50s), off white tongue and groove panelling and f and b Calamine paint

we have white painted boarsd in our bedroom and bathromo

they are pleasing as the millions of scuffs reveal the dark underneath

although so cold and horrid in winter

we are having CARPET cant wait

[swoon]

I like this. In children's bathroom, turquoise rubber floor and bright white painted fake panelling. Sounds horrid - but looks good, sort of in squares. Is nice.

Ah now we have carpet in our bedroom - but PINK rubber floor in shower-room - and discussing getting rid of carpet and having bare floors. But you say no. Hmmm.

I really wanted rubber floor but dh balked

I wanted it in kids rooms

bare floors look nice and have lasted really well

but are cold and unforgiving (our bedroom and bathroom are fecking freezing)

Marmoleum is the up-to-date version of lineoleum. It's an all-natural product, which I liked, and it comes in a range of appealing mottled colours, which are fab as they don't show the dirt.

Oh, and did I say, Get it fitted by an expert?

Yes, I love it. It looks great and is practical - we have the ones with rivets. I looked for ages at the rubber flooring with fake grass and daisies and wanted it for dd's room. DH said no too.

we are installing a wood burner in our bedroom

and having carpet

am sooooooooooo tempted to have a pikey flat screen tv above woodburner

bloody dhs

you must unroll marmoleum and leave it flat for 24 hours before installing (very inconvenient but absoutlye necessary)

This is Marmoleum

It is actually really nice, possibly a bit more durable than the rubber, and warmish underfoot.

You MUST. You'll never leave.

A woodburner in your bedroom. That is FAB. We had one at our last house, downstairs, and some wretched child left their plastic beaker round the back of it, and it melted and every time the burner was lit it gave off this poisonous reek.

We have one in kitchen, but have never used. On account of the horror Aga.