We had mostly tile (carpet in the bedrooms, hallways and family room) completely removed in 2019 and had Shaw's LVP installed in all the carpeted areas to include the stairs.
Love it. No more carpet matting or wear patterns through the common areas. Easier to clean up and dirt, grass, pine needles, or burrs that happen to hitchhike in on the dogs.
Also--as somebody else mentioned the size of the tiles 8" through 24" do not seem to "age" well. They seem to date the home back to when those sized tiles were the vogue. (Like avocado appliances)
One big advantage to the LVP is that when you decide to replace the flooring a decade from now it is MUCH easier to remove LVP than ceramic tile. The machines, buffers, chippers, dust vacuums, etc., required to remove the ceramic tile is a huge inconvenience and mess--not to mention the cost to remove it.
The downside to LVP is that our dogs tend to slip a bit on the vinyl (but no nail marks at all) and we are required to wear house slippers or crocs everywhere now to head off foot pain and planters fasciitis. Walking on hard surfaces for a few days definitely made our feet sore.
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