ᐅ Disadvantages of engineered wood veneer flooring? Apart from the inability to sand and refinish?
Created on: 18 Feb 2022 17:43
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christophen
Hello everyone,
We have a newly built house and have been looking into flooring options lately. For the living room on the ground floor, we will use standard multilayer parquet. For the other four rooms, we initially considered vinyl flooring due to the high cost of parquet. Then some people recommended a "veneer floor" as well. This is basically parquet with a very thin wear layer.
Advantages: affordable, parquet appearance, warm underfoot... basically all the benefits of parquet.
Disadvantages: it cannot be sanded down.
Several people have told us that the inability to sand it is not really a disadvantage anymore, since hardly anyone sands their floors nowadays. Tastes also change, so with veneer flooring you have the “advantage” that after about 15 years—if the wear bothers you—you can replace it with something completely different. You don’t have to pay a lot upfront for parquet. In terms of price, veneer flooring from the company Kährs costs around €30/m² (about $30/sq ft), while real parquet nowadays is at least €60/m² (about $60/sq ft).
Do you have any experience with this type of flooring? We are not looking for a floor we have to live with for a lifetime. If the wear looks bad in 15 years, we can choose something else. That’s fine with us.
Thanks in advance for your experiences.
We have a newly built house and have been looking into flooring options lately. For the living room on the ground floor, we will use standard multilayer parquet. For the other four rooms, we initially considered vinyl flooring due to the high cost of parquet. Then some people recommended a "veneer floor" as well. This is basically parquet with a very thin wear layer.
Advantages: affordable, parquet appearance, warm underfoot... basically all the benefits of parquet.
Disadvantages: it cannot be sanded down.
Several people have told us that the inability to sand it is not really a disadvantage anymore, since hardly anyone sands their floors nowadays. Tastes also change, so with veneer flooring you have the “advantage” that after about 15 years—if the wear bothers you—you can replace it with something completely different. You don’t have to pay a lot upfront for parquet. In terms of price, veneer flooring from the company Kährs costs around €30/m² (about $30/sq ft), while real parquet nowadays is at least €60/m² (about $60/sq ft).
Do you have any experience with this type of flooring? We are not looking for a floor we have to live with for a lifetime. If the wear looks bad in 15 years, we can choose something else. That’s fine with us.
Thanks in advance for your experiences.
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Myrna_Loy19 Feb 2022 15:34pagoni2020 schrieb:
....maybe the floorboards don’t necessarily have to be premium oak either.....then you might find something affordable there as wellPine was also unaffordable. Unfortunately, the 200-year-old floorboards running the length of the rooms in our house could no longer be saved, and this is the point I regret the most—that our budget did not allow us to replace them with new boards of the same size. That was the only compromise, and even after two years, I still find it hard to accept.
askforafriend27 Feb 2022 15:26We have just recently paid 44 euros per square meter (sqm) for a beautiful rustic oak parquet floor. It was initially quoted at 50 euros per sqm. Even today, there is still room for negotiation.
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christophen27 Feb 2022 23:05Thanks to everyone. We have now also found a hardwood floor. Kährs Grano is the model (from an old collection), the price is incredible (remaining stock) €38!
Thanks!
Thanks!
Hello everyone, since you all have experience with parquet or wooden flooring, I would like to ask for your input: The prices mentioned above are without installation, right? We are currently starting our search for floor coverings (mainly wood), and I’m wondering what I should roughly budget for the installation. Does anyone have a somewhat recent price estimate for me? I would really appreciate it!
Lycka21 schrieb:
Hello everyone, since you all have experience with parquet or wooden flooring, I would like to get some feedback from you: The prices mentioned above are without installation, right?
We are just starting to look for flooring (primarily wood), and I’m wondering what I should roughly budget for the installation.
Does anyone have a somewhat current price for me? I would really appreciate it! The prices mentioned here are probably without installation, correct.
If you want to do floating installation, it’s not rocket science, not much harder than laminate. It gets tricky with full-surface installation, for example under door frames. But even a moderately skilled DIYer with a miter saw and circular saw, possibly a contour gauge, can manage it. As a team, after the first room you should be able to cover about 20 m2 (215 sq ft) per day. I can’t help with glued installation since I’ve never done that myself.
We recently had parquet installed floating in our attic studio, three years after moving in. The installer (small child duties take their toll…) charged €22 per m2 (square meter) plus €5 per linear meter for baseboards. All prices net.
I had bought the parquet myself last fall as a second choice, country plank Swedish oak, brushed, smoked, and oiled, 240 x 20 cm (94 x 8 inches) with 3.5 mm wear layer (“Berg&Berg Eriksberg”) for €35 per m2. The manufacturer charged €105 at the time for first-choice quality, and currently even €120. We bought one pack more than would have been needed for first choice, but that was basically unnecessary. The installer thought the quality was very good.
The same dealer still offers light oiled “oak select” from the same manufacturer in that size for €25 per m2. Even vinyl is often more expensive than that! Delivery is available nationwide for a flat fee of €100.
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motorradsilke4 Apr 2022 07:29Scout** schrieb:
The prices mentioned here are probably without installation, correct.
If you want to install it as a floating floor, it’s not complicated, not much more difficult than laminate. The tricky part is installing it continuously, for example under door frames. But even a moderately skilled DIYer can manage this with a miter saw and circular saw, and possibly a contour gauge. Working as a pair, after the first room you should be able to cover roughly 20 m² (215 sq ft) per day. I don’t find it any harder to install than laminate. It’s basically the same principle. And in new buildings, you can arrange for the door frames to be installed after the flooring.
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