Wood floor tiles

[LennyM1984]

I need to start thinking about flooring for the hallway in our new house (renovation job) and I've seen wood effect tiles and was wondering if anybody had any real world feedback?

We have two kids (8 and 6) so the hallway can expect wet shoes, mud, spilt water bottles etc etc. I'd like solid wood again but I think it'll be destroyed in a hallway and I'm not super keen on LVT (seems expensive for what it is).

The hallway is 7m by 2m extending to about 5m at the end

[IJWS15]

We used them in a conservatory, approx 18” x 4” in herringbone pattern (never again).

We were complimented several times on the wood flooring.

Cold on the feet and anything you drop will probably break, or chip a tile.

Having used LVT since in other rooms that is the way I would go now. It is much better now than it was when I first laid some for my daughter.

[Mercdriver]

Engineered oak?

[mattlovescars93]

Similar story, have had wood effect tiles which looked great but were cold to touch and very hard if anyone fell over or dropped anything. Now have amtico LVT and wouldn’t look back, we went for a dark wood colour and constantly get asked whether it’s wood or not but without any of the downsides.

[LooneyTunes]

We had them in a couple of rooms in our previous place.

Very low maintenance, especially in a boot room where wood would have been a PITA,and surprisingly convincing.

If you’ve got UFH they’re a good alternative to wood.

[mattvanders]

We have got them in the whole of the ground floor but we also have under floor heating so don’t really suffer from cold floor/feet. Ours are very textured so can feel a bit weird under foot at first but my parents have an older similar effect tile that is very flat which now feels weird to me.

[Sheepshanks]

mattlovescars93 said:

Similar story, have had wood effect tiles which looked great but were cold to touch and very hard if anyone fell over or dropped anything. Now have amtico LVT and wouldn’t look back, we went for a dark wood colour and constantly get asked whether it’s wood or not but without any of the downsides.

Had that in a barn conversation we stayed in for a couple of mths while our house was being renovated and everyone who saw thought it was wood.

We went for mid-range Karndean and it’s a bit of a pain as in stocking feet it’s ridiculously slippy. We tell visitors to leave their shoes on but some people insist on taking them off.