ᐅ Meister Luxury Vinyl Flooring, Experiences

My parents have this vinyl on their stairs, and honestly, I prefer our laminate much more. The vinyl floor is hard, and you can immediately tell it’s not wood.

With our laminate, however, everyone thinks it is hardwood flooring. Even the feel is the same. We have high-quality laminate, well above the 20 euro mark.

In our kitchen, we have vinyl flooring, and we really like it there; we didn’t want tiles. But in the rest of the apartment, it just doesn’t belong. Especially since it is disproportionately expensive.

I installed vinyl planks throughout the entire house, except in the hallway, bathroom, and kitchen, where I have tiles. I really like the material! It allows the warmth from the underfloor heating to pass through relatively quickly but is not as cold underfoot as tiles. When combined with underfloor heating, I prefer vinyl over other types of flooring!

Irgendwoabaier schrieb:
In other words: PVC.
Disposal is difficult.
It is naturally hard and brittle, and only becomes elastic and soft with significant amounts of plasticizers.
There are areas in the house where PVC still makes sense (wastewater pipes, but also window frames – partly because better alternatives are significantly more expensive). Whether flooring is one of those areas is a personal decision.

Nowadays, there are PVC floors with natural plasticizers that are supposed to be harmless. It always depends on the place of manufacture.

Interesting, I somehow got the impression that everyone wanted these vinyl floors. I need a flooring option for the kitchen, dining area, and hallway and wanted something consistent—so not laminate in the dining area, vinyl in the kitchen, tiles in the bathroom, and carpet in the living room. Laminate is probably not very suitable for the kitchen, right?

You can already get oak parquet flooring for around €50 (about $55). Installation might be more expensive, though. But before I put any kind of low-quality material—which is what laminate is—in my house, I’d rather invest a bit more and live healthier. I can’t say how vinyl disposal works, but it’s certainly not a natural material either.