Glossy shiny kitchen floor?

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Can I have one? The woman in World's End Tiles yesterday told me polished porcelain tiles aren't suitable for kitchens as they scratch easily and are very slippery.

What's the alternative? I have this idea of a super-glossy kitchen with light bouncing around. (Till now it's been a bit on the dark side.)

rubber floors can by quite shiny and glossy

light and glossy?
I hope you love cleaning...
We've got karndean and love it

scratch clippy and you will be endlessly polishing or they will look not so great..

hands and knees with an e-cloth.. blimey my worktops are bad enough lol.. imagine all those little sweaty footprints ;)

Will investigate rubber hana - had been thinking about that.

Not a light colour piffle - was going to go for dark grey (with white gloss units).

What's karndean?

Clippy, mascara??

we have white gloss units with a grey rubber floor. I think it looks good! It's 4 years old

Where did you get the floor from hana?

piffle i've googled karndean ... which type have you got?

it's dalsouple

www.dalsouple.com/

That looks great hana. Do you know which type - is it DalUni?

This article is quite useful but says you have to remove and reapply lacquer on gloss rubber floors annually - is that right?

no, I think that's in high traffic areas like shopping centers, stairs and lifts. We used to buy the special floor cleaner but now just use regular flash/hot water. Has been fine. it's daltex (with the raised dimples)

Is the lacquer just for a super-high-gloss look do you think? Or was yours lacquered and you've just left it?

This thread on LivingEtc worries me a bit - a lot of talk of rubber marking easily and being high maintenance - ?

well there are marks on it and scratches and dents - but it's not a showhouse and we have 3 young kids - kitchen has french doors onto decking and backyard, so lots of wear and tear. Still looks good - you don't really notice them, honest you don't unless you're on your hands and knees scrubbing up. I love it.

If you don't have any children / pets, don't cook very much and plan to keep your kitchen as a pristine show room - go for it!

MrsM, do you mean I shouldn't go for shiny at all, or do you mean a particular type of floor?

hana - I guess the 'dimpled' floors show marks/damaged a lot less than smooth ones, which is what I'd be going for

May have to give up on the idea of shine

I'm very dubious about any type of shiny floor.

I have become a bit of a 'kitchen floor bore' since we got our new kitchen put in recently .

Seriously, it all depends on how much time you want to spend cleaning it / how high your standards of cleanliness are. I am a slattern, so got a terracotta-coloured ceramic floor with a kind of grey/sand coloured grouting - simply because it doesn't show up the dirt (at all - quite scary actually, as it is has to be really filthy before I notice!) and is super easy to clean.

I can see why you're attracted to those shiny floors. They look lovely when all new and clean. But they have to be almost polished (let alone cleaned) on a daily basis to keep that effect.