ᐅ Which Flooring Is Better – Tiles or Vinyl in the Living/Dining Area?

Hallway, kitchen, bathroom, and utility room are tiled. The rest of the floors are vinyl. Price is 19.50 per square meter (2 sq ft). The vinyl has a 0.3 mm wear layer, Project Floors Limfjord. It is glued down. A 0.3 mm wear layer is more than sufficient for living areas.

Both options are comfortable and warm. Vinyl feels softer underfoot. In retrospect, I would have preferred to lay a low-pile carpet in the bedroom for an even cozier feel.

Wood parquet is great in the living room, but real parquet is very expensive, laid strip by strip. I am not a fan of engineered wood flooring. It’s basically wood scraps covered with a veneer. It doesn’t last long. Karsten

@Müllerin: I hadn’t even considered using vinyl for the walk-in shower floor until now; I’ll ask the floor installer soon if that’s even possible. I had originally planned to have the shower floor tiled with tiles that look as similar as possible to the vinyl. At a showroom, I once saw floor tiles that really looked like real wood… there is an amazing variety available nowadays. We’ll see, I’ll be happy to update here later.

Berny, that is possible, but not with planks. Instead, use sheet material, with a cove (concave molding) slightly raised along the wall, sealed with PU foam.

Yes Nordlys, throughout the whole house, materials like that are applied from a roll and fully glued onto the heated screed. So far, I've only seen samples (about 1 x 1 m (3 x 3 ft)). It seemed solid to me. As I said, I’ll ask him later, and if that really works as the shower floor (non-slip, wear-resistant, resistant to cleaning agents?), that would be great. We don’t want even the three walls of the shower tiled; instead, special custom-made glass panels with patterns and colors will be installed there. But I have no say in that anyway—it’s madam’s domain.

Kitchen, bathrooms, utility room, building services, entrance area tiles

The rest is oak parquet laid in a strip pattern. It will probably need sanding once the children are a bit older. With a thickness of 8mm (0.3 inches), this should not be a problem. Parents and parents-in-law are convinced that the varnish used to be more durable.

Tiles without underfloor heating are colder, but that doesn't bother me. I rarely wear shoes at home and am quite tolerant in that regard.

I mean, precisely because of slip resistance, we decided not to go with it, and it was said that the drain would be quite fiddly to install?! But I didn’t look into it any further. I also don’t like wood-look tiles; for us, the walls will be white and blue, and the floor light gray, which works well.