I know this has been covered before :rolleyes: but has anyone got any experience of IKEA Tundra flooring?   We still haven't replaced the manky carpet in the living room and at the moment it's between B&Q Toughloc and IKEA Tundra.  There's a huge difference in price so not really sure what to choose   any opinions/experience (good or bad) would be great :)

I know this type of flooring is going out of fashion but in this area houses with laminate flooring do sell better /quicker ;)  and the ease of keeping things clean is a big plus (I detest hoovering!)  also son and OH are asthmatic so this will probably help there too :)  Got the paw wax ready for the mad loons :D

Thanks in advance

dill

Not sure but to be honest I have had loads of wooden items from ikea from TV cabinets to photo frames :D and have always thought how well made they are and great value for money.  We got our laminate from floors 2 go as they did boards that were 12mm think rather than the normal 6-8 so it was better quality - plus the one we chose looks like real wood as each plank is like one cut of wood (you know how some laminate is made up of loads of small rectangles) so looks authentic too.

I think I  would be tempted to try Ikea as I think they are as good, if not better than B&Q for most things - oh yeah almost forgot, we had a solid wood work surface from Ikea and its fab, about 3/4 of the price of the one from B&Q too :)

To be honest apart from fitting loads of various ones myself in the past, my other half has fitted hundreds of them and to be honest both of us think it is yet to be proven the in laminate the most expensive is better.

Homebase has one that clicks together that seems to be OK.   I don't think it lasts very long away and if you get a water raised bit then you would want to lift it anyway. I would go with the cheaper.

One last thing though..IF you can, buy real wood and forget the laminate full stop :-). I wouldn't honestly fit it again myself.

In our last house we had ikea tundra laminate and found it to be the best flooring we have had :0.  We had another brand which was almost 3 times more expensive than the ikea one, and i have to say i thought it was terrible in comparison. 

We've got B&Q toughloc, been down for about 3 years and it is wearing okay with the dogs sharp claws.  However I do agree with previous poster that if oyu can afford wood floor then splash out the bit extra. I always remember the presenter of one of those house design shows saying why would anyone want use a photo of a wood floor when they can have the real thing !!

i've not used ikea malinate dill, but my very fussy sister has, and it was the best she'd tried. she had most of the downstairs done in it in the end, and it must have been down over 6years before she changed to real wood.

We have Pergo throughout our house and we are very very pleased with it.  Unfortunately you will still need to hoover a lot though if your dog is anything like our 8 month old cavalier.  There are balls of fluff everywhere LOL

Yes I have to say that I think wooden floors are very high maintenance - compared with carpets.  I thought it would be easier, but every bit of dirt/fluff sits on the surface and so is noticeable.  The best thing is though that once you clean the floor you know it is really clean.

I agree - we have tiled floors in part of our house carpet in the rest. The tiled floor shows every dog hair, which all blow around in any draught and scutter away from the vacuum cleaner, making them almost impossible to catch. At least on the carpets they stay still!

Agreed - hooray for carpets :D LOL Tara's hair is like tumbleweed in all the corners. I haven't got the time for perpetual house cleaning - I have a job and a life :D :D

Daisy

Laminate flooring is a mine field :rolleyes: Its about time it was regulated properly and we stopted importing rubbish ;)
Personly Id stick to the good quality ones Id go for somthing like quickstep . I have never heard a bad report about it , Not only that we had it down for 15 years and even after it was left out in the rain still dident swell :D

We went for solid oak flooring, quite expensive but worth it. i agree that the hair sits on top and is more noticeable but once it's clean it's clean, if youk now what i mean,our carpet used to be disgusting especially in the winter and no matter what never felt properly clean.
Laminate is ok we had it in our bathroom and that was the £34.99 a pack one i just think sometimes it sounds a bit hollow and noisey where as the real wood doesn't.

You probably needed acoustic underlay which helps with the sound problem :)

lovelylady - you're so right!

But even so-called expensive laminates aren't always the best :(  I've seen some recently in a local shop and the samples are in a terrible state, scratched, chipped, deteriorating around the edges and basically disintegrating   and these only have to be in the shop, they're too small to walk on (about 9ins square) :rolleyes: and in a bunch they don't get handled that much :rolleyes: If they can't stand up to handling in the shop how will they stand up to being walked on?? :( :( 

This is why we don't want to spend a fortune on it, I'd rather buuy a middle priced floor and replace after a few years than take the risk of paying a fortune for a piece of tat which doesn't last :(

need to get to IKEA now to have another look at their flooring - ho-hum...

Well,

We went to IKEA today to look at the flooring (and everything else ;) )  They have the one we like in lots of the room sets and many of the walkways.  It's been down for 3 years and looks good as new :)  Have to say it shows confidence in the product to use it in the shop ;)   we've bought the board underlay to help with insulation and sound damping and will get the flooring soon (couldn't get it all in the car )  They guarantee it for 15 years as long as it's laid as per instructions, and it's manufactured in germany so should be ok quality wise.  I also looked at the cheapest range (for the bedrooms ;) ) but don't like the look of it, not really wanting one made of chipboard ;)