Browse Forums Flooring & Floor Covering 1 Jul 05, 2020 4:50 am Trying to decide what type of flooring to go in our house we are renovating. We will have carpet in bedrooms. Lounge/ open plan areas and hallways are wanting to go timber style. We are deciding between solid hardwood 14mm overlay or 5mm glue down vinyl planks. There will be approx 3-4k price difference with hardwood being the higher price. We are installing over yellow tongue so vinyl with require masonite to be laid underneath first. We also have young children Re: Which type of flooring would you choose and why? 2Jul 05, 2020 10:46 pm Have you had a look at hybrid flooring? It looked to me more realistic than the vinyl plank and is apparently 100% waterproof. The ones I liked (mid range?) were about $80 per sqm incl installation. Not sure about $ of installing over yellow tongue. Anthony Firstly, wow you have put a lot of work into your list of questions! Great job and they are mostly valid questions that a builder should be able to answer. As… 14 9081 This is the current bathroom with a european laundry. Overall internal dimensions are 3.69 wide and 3.65m deep, including the footprint of the laundry. There is a toilet… 0 783 That sucks! Hope it all works out. Good to move away from steel anyway for all your reasons, but it's also thermally poor. 16 13696 |