Browse Forums Flooring & Floor Covering Re: Tiles or Bamboo flooring 2Dec 30, 2011 5:07 pm Internal and External Building and Colour Consultant Online - Worldwide http://www.denovoconcepts.com Re: Tiles or Bamboo flooring 3Dec 30, 2011 6:18 pm Bamboo Flooring Perth - Simply Bamboo http://www.simplybamboo.com.au Re: Tiles or Bamboo flooring 11Jan 08, 2012 12:14 pm AGF if you lived over east I would invite you to come and have a look!! LOL Colour is light cream, I'll take a photo, but in the meantime they are a tad deeper than Dulux Grand Piano Quarter...which is the wall and architrave colour and a good contrast. The tile supplier had similar in light grey tones so you might be lucky. Re: Tiles or Bamboo flooring 12Jan 09, 2012 7:42 pm mary23 mmm...not sure, but in our old home we had tiles, that over a period of 7 or so years we had 2 damaged tiles!Weve just moved into our new home, and have installed bamboo flooring, which I do love the look of, but the dope that installed them put scratches on them by sitting and moving his toolbox and sawhorses around on the bamboo flooring, without placing anything under them!!!GRRRRR!!Weve been in about a month now and have put a couple of small scratches in the floor and a few chips where Ive dropped coasters and keys! Bamboo king what would you suggest using to repair or fill in scratches?I ave the coffee colored bamboo, so when scratched it looks almost white where its scratched. Hello Mary If the scratches looks white then an easy way is to use a permanent marker that is the same colour as the floor, and simply draw down the scratch and then lick your finger and rub your finger down the scratch to remove the excess. This will make the scratch blend in better. Bamboo Flooring Perth - Simply Bamboo http://www.simplybamboo.com.au Re: Tiles or Bamboo flooring 13Jan 09, 2012 7:47 pm HappyCamper_au Been in this house for 13 months and the 600 x 600 porcelain tiles with matchng 300 x 300 tiles in the bathrooms and laundry, are (imho) the perfect choice, just wipe any spills with a barely damp microfibre cloth or mop and let the Roomba do the rest and the floor 'always' looks immaculate. On Xmas Eve I knocked a glass of Apple & Raspberry cordial from the Caesarstone bench, it went all over the porcelain tiles in the kitchen and I fully expected the grout might be stained, but nothing!! I've been selling some excess furniture etc through Gumtree/eBay and when people call to collect their items as soon as I open the front door and they see the porcelain tiles in the hall they immediately remove their shoes and comment how much time I must spend getting the floors to look so good!! To be honest I spend much less time cleaning floors in this house than in all previous houses put together. The Roomba is let loose as required, but that's usually only once a week, maybe twice if I've had visitors as living on black sand it does track inside easily. A wheel on the trolley broke when a dishwasher was being moved and of course the D/w went crashing onto the tiles....I didn't want to look, but when I did there wasn't a mark and it hit really hard. A large glass bottle full of chilled water fell from a shelf in the fridge door and it also hit the tiles with a crash and not damage to the floor...of course the bottle didn't survive but that was OK as long as the floor wasn't damaged. I've had polished, solid timber floors (not laminate) in previous houses and every time a fork or knife was dropped another mark was added to the floor. So for me, I'd choose porcelain again and again! Hope this helps? Yes looks nice but is cold in winter, and also if you do chip a tile will stand out so much, and how would you fix it? Bamboo Flooring Perth - Simply Bamboo http://www.simplybamboo.com.au Re: Tiles or Bamboo flooring 15Jan 10, 2012 11:24 am hi althom funny, just mopped my floors!!yes they suck how they smudge so quickly, but I do still love the look of them.Ive had both tiles and floorboards and both have their pros and cons.A friend of mine has light colored tiles in her house and they show up every little spot of dirt, so she finds herself cleaning them a lot too. What are you using to clean your floors.I use the wood cleaner, but Ive used just water with some metho in it, to see how that goes. Re: Tiles or Bamboo flooring 16Jan 10, 2012 11:43 am HappyCamper_au Been in this house for 13 months and the 600 x 600 porcelain tiles with matchng 300 x 300 tiles in the bathrooms and laundry, are (imho) the perfect choice, just wipe any spills with a barely damp microfibre cloth or mop and let the Roomba do the rest and the floor 'always' looks immaculate. Hi HappyCamper I like the idea of the Roomba! How long have you been using it and how well does it work? 1 15766 1000000% definitely add insulation. I have in my home and it makes a big difference minimising sound transfer. Insulation is pretty cheap and definitely worth it 2 6211 Engineering timber is certainly a less fuss option, times cheaper to supply and install and better withstands humidity. 1 15924 |