kati1337
2023-06-04 15:49:19
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I would have thought that floating vinyl floors can also be mopped wet - shouldn't you avoid that because water might penetrate the edges more easily?
I heard that vinyl nowadays partly looks deceptively real like wood, on the photos on the internet it always looks great. But when it's installed, you probably still see the difference.
Sure, they advertise with "deceptively real," but I can only recommend - visit friends/family who have laminate/vinyl, and those who have parquet. You can clearly see a difference between wood imitations and real wood.
That doesn't mean vinyl floors look bad. But you can simply tell that it's a plastic surface and you're not walking on wood. Both visually and to the touch.
I don't know exactly if you shouldn't wet mop clicked vinyl, but you always have a point of attack for water through the seams. With glued vinyl, that's not an issue. The floor was indeed low-maintenance. However, we also had the problem that you quickly got deep scratches. That is probably the case with wood as well, but wood looks more like "patina" and less like damage. But that's just my subjective opinion.
Here's an example photo, that's our old vinyl floor in the new building. I still think it's a nice floor today, but you can definitely see that it's not real wood. At least that's what I think.