Hall flooring

[Guest]

I need to redo flooring in the ground floor, except kitchen and down stairs loo. So hallway lounge dining room plus stairs and upper landing.

Hallway is causing debate.
What do you have in yours ? Carpet, tile, laminate, wooden floors, karndean etc ?

Do you have different right by the front door for durability / cleanliness ?

Humming and hawing about having the same all through or going for practicality in the hallway.

Plus, can flooring fitters come into houses now ? I think lead times are quite long so it may be a moot point anyway.

[darbs]

Fitters can definitely still work as we are getting a new carpet fitted. It is choosing the product that is tricky as all the showrooms are closed. I personally would go for hard flooring in the hall, lounge and dining room then carpet on the stairs and landing maybe?

[tmwalsh]

We've got karndean. I love it. This flows from the hall into a study and a downstairs WC. The guy just cut round the toilet as we couldn't be bothered taking it out or raising it as there was just lino in there before. We have that thin trim around the edges of the room about 20cm in from the edge.

[tmwalsh]

Just to add, for the karndean. We're in a fairly modern house so the floor is chipboard. The fitter then put a thin layer of plywood on top and then some sort of levelling mix on top of that. The karndean was then fit on that.

[Guest]

Thank you. I was pondering Karen dean type stuff. But my dh isn’t so keen on the trim thing so might want all new skirting boards which seems a lot of faff. It’s for the expansion gap no?

[Guest]

Originally Posted by darbs

Fitters can definitely still work as we are getting a new carpet fitted. It is choosing the product that is tricky as all the showrooms are closed. I personally would go for hard flooring in the hall, lounge and dining room then carpet on the stairs and landing maybe?

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Ah good point. I forgot showrooms are closed ☺️

The layout you suggested would work for me but come concerns that it might be cold or hard to clean ? And need rugs on to keep warm ?

[tmwalsh]

Originally Posted by FamilyGWales

Thank you. I was pondering Karen dean type stuff. But my dh isn’t so keen on the trim thing so might want all new skirting boards which seems a lot of faff. It’s for the expansion gap no?

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No our fitter went to the skirts. The thin trim is decoration only, you dont need to have it.

Basically the fitter followed the wall with the plank of karndean, fit the trim which is only about 3-4mm. The middle of the room was then filled at a diagonal.

[tmwalsh]

So kind of like this. Although this isn't what we've got.

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[darbs]

Originally Posted by FamilyGWales

Ah good point. I forgot showrooms are closed ☺️

The layout you suggested would work for me but come concerns that it might be cold or hard to clean ? And need rugs on to keep warm ?

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We do have a rug in the lounge, we only moved in a few months ago and had carpet in our old lounge so it does feel different!

I find a hard floor in the hall much easier to keep clean than a carpet as we don't have a porch so lots of muddy shoes straight in the house at this time of year!

[DisneyWannabe]

We've had: carpet, laminate and LVT and would always now go for the LVT its so easy to lay and maintain (we had Polyfloor Camaro loc and DH fitted it easily himself). As we've moved home we are just refurbing our en-suite and will be having LVT Click in there.

We need to do the main bathroom next and then will do the hallway, hoping t get the same flooring for all areas.