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Originally Posted by justanormalgirl
Is there a reason why you would use/choose a floating floor over real wood? Does it make a difference in the Florida climate? We had a floating floor in one of our homes and we hated it for sooo many reasons!
1. It was hard to keep clean and you had to dry it after mopping or it would streak.
2. The floors were cold.
3. They were noisy, every sound was magnified.
Although, the floors in that house weren't level so the 'floating' floor did help with that 
When we bought this home we had all of the carpet removed and had real, solid oak floors installed. We love them! When we got the area rug we went to the carpet store and bought a piece of the soft back carpet (not foam back and not traditional jute back) and had it bound. With the soft back carpet/rugs you don't need a pad under an area rug, the soft back is made for use over hardwood. |
No no no.....we haven't even purchased a home in TV yet. If you read the earlier threads, I was asking about the pros and cons of various type wood flooring and if they install it in a newly purchased TV home, etc.
In other words, do the "packages" have options as to flooring.
I mentioned that our carpenter, here in VERMONT, had suggested putting a floating wood floor down for us.........we have a tri level and in this lower level which is a daylight basement (house is built to accomodate the hillside).
They couldn't dynamite out a cellar hole as there is so much boulder and ledge under the earth up here........so they put down cement slabs.
Our carpenter who is also a home builder, tile installer, etc........suggested a floating wood floor.........which we recently finally did see and understand the 'soft layer" put beneath right onto the cement /concrete.....then the wood or laminate...whichever someone chose.....is put down WITH NO NAILS.
It doesn't raise the floor as much as if we had wood put down and the new floor nailed to the wood.
Supposedly, it's also softer and "gives a little" and is good for humid places such as basements or Florida homes which are built on a slab with no cellar beneath.............we aren't doing anything yet.
Our home is carpeted and tiled (tiled in kitchen and 3 bathrooms), carpeted in living room, dining room, three bedrooms, family room......two stairwells and three hallways.....foyer.
Foyer is a long story.....it's a 20 foot foyer and very nice.......tile would have been perfect.......but we moved back here from our condo on the beach in Venice, Florida where I had tiled not only the foyer, the kitchen, the bathrooms, and the two balconies, one facing the beach and sand.......the other facing the esplanade and waterway in the front............so coming back here after 4 months, with my mom with Alzheimers, my hubby and I just carpeted the entire house......I was all decorated out.
We had other concerns such as my mom's "wandering", confusion, etc.
The Venice tile was beautiful....we did it like a small chapel we saw in Nokomis, Florida.......pale grey and rose colored slate on the balconies and a pale peach in the kitchen and bathrooms......beige berber in the living room and bedrooms............we actually moved back to Vermont with all our Florida furniture...........16 years ago. Our adult kids wish we'd tear out all our carpeting and replace with wood floors !!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Wood is "in"....for sure.