Wooden or ceramic floor

[Anna Kazimierowicz]

I'm repairing my flat this autumn and I have to make new floors. 13 years with Bajka and her children, also one litter of 9 monsters, totally ruined my wooden floors. In hall in front of the door (Bajka's favourite place)  parquet floor came unstuck. So over there I have to make ceramic floor, that's for sure. But what to do with floor in the rooms?
What's your experience with few dogs at home and wooden or ceramic floors?

[Laura Kolbach]

i don't have much experience in this but the ceramic part of my flat is more slippery - but much easier to keep clean. and take a colour that lets red hair "merge into it". :-) if i ever have a new house, i will have strip floor like something, the best choice for doggie nails :-)

[Susan Stone]

Hi Anna
We're in the middle of ripping out all the carpets in the bedrooms... all stink due to poor old Shannon's years of incontinence -plus old blood stains from mice killed and eaten under beds or cupboards - by the dear pussies I should add! ;-)
We've opted for Linoleum and the first room looks and feels great. Ask me again in 10 years time;-))

[Catherine Carter]

Hi Anna,
I have changed from carpets to solid stone floor last year in the hallway downstairs. I live in the countryside and it has been a great success....much much easier to keep clean in the Winter and the dogs love lying on it in the Summer when it gets hot!

[silvia]

I suggest porcelain tiles. More expensive than ceramic, but virtually undestroyable and less porous.

I was so happy to have them in half of our house when we had Oberon :) The other half of the house has wood floors and of course is more prone to stains and scratches. So there is half house where he can play and run freely as long as he wish when he has that "madness" setter moments !

regards

Silvia

[eva ciechonska]

I agree with Silvia..........porcelain tiles are indestructable, very beautiful, come in all colours and sizes, flooring grade, non-slip.....whatever you want. Italian porcelain such as Ariostea or similar is the best. You can drop a cast iron pot on these tiles and they will not crack or scratch. You can conbine them with an underfloor heating system, probably a heating mat and they will be warm in the winter and cool in the summer.
Once you get pee in your timber floors you can never get rid of the smell plus they warp unless you get solid timber floor boards and they can be more expensive than the tiles. Laminated timber floor boards will warp and peel. They are cheaper but then................if you pay peanuts you get monkeys!!!!!

[Maggie Smith]

I have indian slate tiles in the utility (were the girls sleep) this goes through the kitchen and dining room. The tiles are sealed to water ect I let the muddy paw prints dry and then simpley sweep or hoover the floor. I don't wash the floor more than weekly - if that!! In the living room it is laminate flooring - that I hoover and spray with a flooring solution and then use a flat floor duster to gather any dirt or dog hairs.

[Anna Kazimierowicz]

Thank you girls for sharing your experience in that matter. I like very much wood on the floor - it's nice and warm, but after more than 10 years with dogs, I think is rather impractical. I know how it is to have dog's piss on it:(
Maybe I make wood in the bedroom?
I have to start to look for fine ceramic tails:-)
Thank you
Anna