Design flooring as a parquet alternative - purchase recommendation, manufacturer

Nevertheless, the floor is so sensitive and soft,

It's not the property. It's the parquet. It's due to a soft choice of wood. Take oak, for example, and then you won't have the problem. It withstood three small children along with a Bernese Mountain Dog well.

Design flooring is not an option due to the high costs and poor price/performance ratio. It should actually be cheaper than laminate, as it is simpler in construction, but it is more expensive and in some respects more sensitive (pressure marks, deformation). My recommendation would be commercially graded laminate laid floating, and when the children are old enough that you can make them pay if they break something, then get rid of it and put in nice parquet.

The apartment is 5 years old and we really take great care to cause as few dents as possible. Nevertheless, the floor is so sensitive and soft that due to our very young children we want to go for an alternative. Tiles are not an option because of the lack of "foot warmth".

Floors get dents. Even design floors. For one it is a scratch, for another a pressure mark or whatever. Besides the principal differences between types of floors, there are also different qualities of execution. The parquet in the rental apartment was possibly not from a "mid-range" - how representative your impression is I would check again. I find it a bit odd to pursue a "disposable solution" for a few years because of impending dents. If you prefer wood anyway, choose a higher quality and use - as already suggested - the possibility of sanding at a later date. About the material: Bamboo is even more robust than oak.

I simply see many advantages of design flooring: few scratches, dents (with the appropriate usage class), no problems with water, no grease stains, 10 times better heat transfer than parquet with underfloor heating, pleasant to walk, sit, and play on.

Environmental concerns can be addressed with plant oils and [blauer Engel].

Good that you don’t have to sand a design floor! :)

Coffee not working yet? ;) She wrote above that she wants to tear out the design floor in the living room and replace it with something more valuable once the kids are no longer wrecking balls on two legs. That’s what it referred to.
Apart from the fact that someone should show me a plastic floor from the last 50 years that didn’t look bad after 10 years.

But yes, we also don’t want something that emits fumes, so we chose a design floor with the Blue Angel.

Exactly, I would definitely pay attention to that! I wouldn’t want to support anything else.

It requires less effort to sand a parquet floor than to dispose of a plastic floor and lay a new one. I would therefore choose a parquet with a somewhat thicker wear layer for the living room.

Haha, basically a sensible thought. But it doesn’t help with deeper dents, so I would definitely prefer the design floor option!

Design flooring is not an option anyway because of the high costs and the poor price/performance ratio.

Can you elaborate? I don’t necessarily see it that way, rather the advantages of .

The parquet in the rental apartment was possibly not from a "mid-range" brand – I would double-check how representative your impression really is.

Unfortunately, I have to disagree. The wear layers are becoming thinner and thinner for cost reasons, and unfortunately it was a very high-priced parquet.

I simply see many advantages of design flooring: few scratches, dents (with the appropriate usage class), no problems with water, no grease stains, 10x better heat conductivity than parquet with underfloor heating, pleasant to walk, sit, and play on.

Environmental concerns can be addressed with plant oils and the Blue Angel.

Finally a supporter ;). Do you have any recommendations regarding manufacturers and types? People hear good but also a lot of bad about Parador Modular One.

Many thanks in advance for your quite differing opinions :). Despite the concerns here, I would rather prefer a glued or floating vinyl or design floor. I don’t like vinyl as much due to the lack of foot warmth. Although male, I am very sensitive here :).