I had water damaged hardwood replaced in a living room area in a midcentury modern house. Water resistant vinyl. Marginally less money, but liking the look, and spills are nothing on it. It does look dirty fast though since it’s dark. Your experiences?

Pics if needed, but prefer not to.

Real hardwood is goat, vinyl probably makes more sense tho

We do the Vinyl. It looks awesome and can be installed in like an hour.

Hardwood takes a week start to finish.

Honestly it feels more like hardwood than the actual hardwood we replaced. Looks much better too imo

I work in the trades and I’ll never put wood flooring in because it takes next to nothing to destroy/warp the wood. Ice maker line leaks, stopped up condensation any liquid can destroy them. It just doesn’t make sense to install something that is so fragile.

They do however make tile that mimics wood flooring, it looks awesome and cheaper.

This really doesn’t though. I don’t know what it is, but it feels better than most of the rest of house, which is 90% hardwood. Not the best color though. That alone helps with decent vinyl. Doesn’t yellow or any of that. Our floors used to be mirage hardwood in white. Turned pink in 5 years.

Vinyl is fine on a slab.

Do not ever put vinyl upstairs. Ever. Do not.

It's flexible and wood subfloors are never perfectly even. You'll end up with a trampoline effect where the floor is moving as you walk.

Fuk already did. It’s nucore and seems solid.

wood flooring is a pain to rip up

I think the best way I can represent how much the old hardwood flooring sucked is with a pic.



This used to be white. Almost the same color as the doors

It feels ok, but I get it. The waterproof stuff was important, our flat roof has constant leak issues during/after winter. Ruins floors. I think it’s also important to illustrate the colors at this point. Imagine that pink in this room.


Yeah the floor is dirty and always looks it unless you mop a lot. Covered in dust. But the difference between the old hardwood and darker vinyl is stark.

I know, get hardwood in that color. i just wanted to avoid fixing it over and over. And yeah, repainting the area to get rid of those colors on the walls.

If it’s an area of the house where you think there’s a lot of potential for water damage, I wouldn’t invest in hard flooring. But just lol if you are using vinyl in a house

I use vinyl in my bathroom but the living uses only the highest quality materials and build

I have had both and there are pros and cons to either choice

Always always go for natural real sheit like wood. Never settle for modern cuck chemical BS and composites. Even the sound of your voice is different in rooms with real wood. Real always looks better and feels better. Higher resale as well.

Okay, points noted from everyone. I’ll give this a few years. If it really doesn’t work out, then some kind of porcelain it is.

Earlier on, my parents were saying use marble, but it seemed like the whole place would have too much of it and water would ruin it too. We’ll see. Appreciate the input misc.

Getting new floors at my place here in Florida. Ripping up the old carpet.

Real hardwood isn’t really a smart choice in such a humid environment. Porcelain tile is ridiculously expensive due to the labor costs so we were thinking either vinyl or laminate wood plank flooring.

My friend owns the store and does all the work so we went in for a look. My wife hated the vinyl as it just looks and feels too fake and man made. Everyone down here has it but we just didn’t love it so we went with the laminate planks. It looks just like real hardwood and feels almost the same but with the durability of vinyl except you wouldn’t want this in a bathroom so our kitchen and bathrooms keep the White tile.

The cost between the vinyl and laminate was almost identical and we chose a blond color.

We are thinking that long term this place will be a rental property and we’ll be buying another house here in Naples and that one we might do porcelain tiles.

Marble should hold up against water damage but it’s a slip hazard

Nice connection, I hope your new laminate works out for many years. We bought this stuff.

https://www.flooranddecor.com/nucore...E&gclsrc=aw.ds

I don’t think it was that far off in price from some of the less costly hardwoods, but yeah. Hardwood was always one ceiling leak away from warped and fuked floors. I might tackle the roof and see if any new system can fix it’s issue first. It’s been replaced a couple of times, but maybe there’s a better solution out there now.