ᐅ Flooring with a Dog

Hello,

for us, it is clear that we only want tiles in the kitchen, bathrooms, and utility room. For the other rooms, we would prefer a warmer type of flooring. We have planned underfloor heating.

Since we have a small but active dog, we are wondering how scratch-resistant vinyl or cork flooring is. Are there any experiences with dogs?

Thank you

Marko958

For a warming floor covering, I recommend poor insulation 😀

I meant one that feels warmer 🙂

I have an experience to share: a trained police drug dog damaged the entire hardwood floor with its claws during a search in a house... Okay, the dog was excited because it found something 😉 I’m sure the same would happen with vinyl and cork flooring as well!

Hi,
we also have two dogs and faced the decision of which flooring to choose for the new house.
We immediately ruled out cork flooring because I saw it at friends’ place after about one year and it looked really bad, unfortunately.
Vinyl was initially very appealing, being promoted as durable, etc., but after checking it at work or friends’ places after a few years, we found it to be heavily scratched as well.
Supposedly, this shouldn’t happen, but when I compare it to our current flooring (tiles), vinyl definitely loses out.
That’s why we are choosing tiles again for the new house.

Best regards, Tina

Then it was cheaper vinyl – good, high-quality vinyl is industrial grade, and a dog simply won’t scratch it at all.