Hi guys. I will soon be moving to my new house. However the floors are just plain cement, untiled, because home buyers in the village have different preferences.
I was thinking of laminated HDF flooring like Hornitex and Pergo because they really look good and almost like real wood (but much less expensive than solid wood planks). But then they are really not scratch proof, do not last a lifetime, have VOCs, and not water proof.
Should I opt for the good old glazed ceramic tiles instead? Any recommendations?
I would be needing this in the 4 bedrooms, 2nd floor hallway, living room, dining and kitchen areas in the ground floor.
Btw, my budget is limited so I couldn't go for real wood flooring. 🙁
Re: Laminated Wood or Glazed Ceramic Tiles for Floors?
Maybe ceramic/granite tiles for the 1st/heavy used floors, and wood laminates for the 2nd floor.
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Maybe ceramic/granite tiles for the 1st/heavy used floors, and wood laminates for the 2nd floor.
Thanks, bigfoot. Yep. I'll consider that option. 🙂
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Btw, my budget is laminated so I couldn't go for real wood flooring.
Note that the cost of 'real wood' at say P50/bft, if used as flooring at one inch nominal thickness, would put it at ~P500/sq.m, which is comparable to installed price of many brands of laminated flooring. (Pergo starts at ~P800/sq.m discounted, last I checked, but other brands cost less.)
If cut at lesser thckness, say one half inch nominal, the cost of wood per unit area would be even less.
Of course, this is raw material cost only. Tools and labor to shape the wood not included, but if you already have the tools, or can consider tools and labor to be not part of flooring cost but investment and free, respectively...
I don't know though whether wood recycled from old houses as discussed in other threads could be had for P50-100/bft.
Re: Laminated Wood or Glazed Ceramic Tiles for Floors?
Note that the cost of 'real wood' at say P50/bft, if used as flooring at one inch nominal thickness, would put it at ~P500/sq.m, which is comparable to installed price of many brands of laminated flooring. (Pergo starts at ~P800/sq.m discounted, last I checked, but other brands cost less.)
If cut at lesser thckness, say one half inch nominal, the cost of wood per unit area would be even less.
Of course, this is raw material cost only. Tools and labor to shape the wood not included, but if you already have the tools, or can consider tools and labor to be not part of flooring cost but investment and free, respectively...
I don't know though whether wood recycled from old houses as discussed in other threads could be had for P50-100/bft.
great idea, guad. 🙂 unfortunately, i don't have the means to cut and prep ths "real wood" for flooring. the solid wood flooring planks available in the market costs at 2-2.5k yata.
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same dilemma here..a spare room was created near the t&b and the type of flooring isnt decided yet simply because of the tendency of laminated floors to swell with undue moisture (except some brands like pergo)
i am looking into the possibility of installing engineered wood planks instead but costlier..but they are indeed beautiful.
APO for one has many varieties to choose from.
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Re: Laminated Wood or Glazed Ceramic Tiles for Floors?
same dilemma here..a spare room was created near the t&b and the type of flooring isnt decided yet simply because of the tendency of laminated floors to swell with undue moisture (except some brands like pergo)
i am looking into the possibility of installing engineered wood planks instead but costlier..but they are indeed beautiful.
APO for one has many varieties to choose from.
yep. saw that, too. JME Supreme also distributes HDF laminates (malaysia and china), engineered hardwood (prefinished or stained), solid hardwood, and even bamboo.
bamboo looks nice. it is also one of the materials of choice for flooring by green home builders.
i also looked at stamped concrete. i thought this is less expensive than HDF laminates. but they are actually a bit pricier.
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It's more than a decade now since I built my house. I chose granite for flooring. Easy to maintain and clean.
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Hi macG and the community !
Nothing like stepping on warm wood floors when you wake up in your bedroom .granite tiles and ceramic tile are cold on the feet plus the trouble of dirt and dust collecting on the grouts .
Laminated flooring are seamless and neither dust or dirt collects in the joints.
PERGO is much superior in quality and shipped directly from Sweden making it 3x the price of brand ---...PERGO malaysia caters to the Asian market and has wax sealed in its joint making it repellant to moisture and water.it's body is made of acacia and other hardwoods making it perfect to tropical environments and anay resistant.
Afford and Invest on PERGO and Robinafloors NOW- (02)4999207 and (0915)6716333.
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the solid wood flooring planks available in the market costs at 2-2.5k yata.
I saw engineered bamboo flooring planks, 15 mm, tongue and groove, at P1,300/sq.m.
http://www.pinoyhandyman.com/showthread.php?t=841&page=2
Probably cheaper if you can get a hold of the products of local e-kawayan technology.
Re HDF: Have used this, in fact, Pergo. Unfortunately, the A/C contractor did not do a good job sealing the joints in the PVC drain pipes embedded in the wall. Water seeped through the wall and floor, damaging the laminate flooring. Actually, the first sign that there was a leak was the joints between the planks darkening and loosening into a tripping hazard. Normally, the seams are almost invisible.
So it looks like even Pergo, with polyethylene foam+moisture barrier, is no match for moist concrete from an embedded pipe leak.
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Have you considered parquet? A matter of choosing the right design and If installed, sanded, and polished right, then it's a good alternative to hard wood. How about being creative? A combination of solid wood planks and granite tiles can also look good. Tiles can go around as borders beside the baseboard and also as a design in the middle of the floor or vice-versa.
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Hi macG and the community !
Nothing like stepping on warm wood floors when you wake up in your bedroom .granite tiles and ceramic tile are cold on the feet plus the trouble of dirt and dust collecting on the grouts .
Laminated flooring are seamless and neither dust or dirt collects in the joints.
PERGO is much superior in quality and shipped directly from Sweden making it 3x the price of brand ---...PERGO malaysia caters to the Asian market and has wax sealed in its joint making it repellant to moisture and water.it's body is made of acacia and other hardwoods making it perfect to tropical environments and anay resistant.
Afford and Invest on PERGO and Robinafloors NOW- (02)4999207 and (0915)6716333.
Hi, basti.sigfreid. Sounds like a marketing brochure. I could just imagine you in a store and promoting Pergo products to me. 😀
Visited your showroom at Alabang Home Depot. Marie attended to me. I was really impressed with Pergo. She also showed me another brand, Steiger, which is almost the same price as Hornitex.
Re: Laminated Wood or Glazed Ceramic Tiles for Floors?
I saw engineered bamboo flooring planks, 15 mm, tongue and groove, at P1,300/sq.m.
http://www.pinoyhandyman.com/showthread.php?t=841&page=2Probably cheaper if you can get a hold of the products of local e-kawayan technology.
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Hi, guad. That's a good price for bamboo flooring planks.
Sorry to hear about your Pergo flooring. 🙁
Re: Laminated Wood or Glazed Ceramic Tiles for Floors?
Have you considered parquet? A matter of choosing the right design and If installed, sanded, and polished right, then it's a good alternative to hard wood. How about being creative? A combination of solid wood planks and granite tiles can also look good. Tiles can go around as borders beside the baseboard and also as a design in the middle of the floor or vice-versa.
Hi, ultimax. I was considering wood parquet. Many of the houses in our village have wood parquet flooring in the bedrooms. However, the designs I've seen seem outdated. Baduy na sa ngayon. I guess I haven't been to other shops/stores wood parquet floorings to see more designs.
The granite-wood planks combination is a nice idea. Worth considering.
I've also seen plain cement-small ceramic tiles combination flooring. Each cement slab is bordered by the ceramic tiles. This gives a character to the plain old cement flooring. Where normally the plain cement flooring is ignored, the ceramic tiles attract the eyes. Less expensive but also nice. Best used outside though.
