Disadvantages of parquet veneer flooring? Apart from no sanding possibility?

Hello everyone,

we have a newly built house and have been dealing with the topic of parquet flooring these days. For the living room (ground floor) we will take a normal multi-layer parquet. For our other 4 rooms, however, we initially wanted to take a vinyl floor because of high parquet costs. Then some people recommended a "veneer floor" to us as well. This is basically also a parquet with a very, very thin wear layer.

Advantages: inexpensive, parquet look, warm underfoot... basically all the advantages of parquet
Disadvantages: you cannot sand it down.

Several people said so far that sanding is actually not a real disadvantage, since nowadays almost no one gets their floors sanded anyway. Tastes change as well, so with the veneer floor you have the 'advantage' that after e.g. 15 years—if the wear bothers you—you can have something completely different installed.. But you don't have to pay a lot for parquet from the start. So price-wise we are at 30€/m2 for a veneer floor from the company Kährs. With real parquet you pay at least 60€ nowadays.

Do you have any experience with this covering? We are not looking for a covering that we have to live with for life.. If in 15 years the wear looks so bad, we can choose something else. That’s also fine.
Thanks in advance for your experiences.

You can get parquet from €30/sqm. Why do you want to get yourself such a crutch there?

Parquet costs you from €30/sqm. Why do you want to get yourself such a crutch?

I already wrote above why. This is simply a parquet floor but cheaper. We have visited several stores here for weeks, the cheapest were €50-60. The good ones are €80-90-100. Oak country house plank.

Could it be that your info regarding the prices is not entirely up to date?

We have parquet flooring in the living room and veneer flooring in the other rooms. It has been installed for about 1.5 years. So far, we have nothing negative to say. Most guests don't even notice the difference. It is just smoother and has less texture. Overall, the floor is quite hard and has so far survived two small children including various excretions (sorry ;-). There are scratches, but you get those with vinyl as well. An important reason for choosing this floor was the very good thermal transmittance coefficient. We installed it as a floating floor and still manage with very low VLT. (Old building, 36° at NAT -10) Common three-layer parquet is much worse in this regard. And if the floor in a room ever really gets damaged, thanks to the floating installation, everything can be replaced within a day. Edit: All natural, ordinary oak with medium "knotiness". I don’t remember the exact fancy product name.

Could it be that your information regarding the prices is not quite up to date?

Google says otherwise...
Links are not really welcome here, but when I google parquet, the offer overwhelms me. And 30€/sqm is also among them.

I already wrote above why. This is just a parquet floor but cheaper. We have visited several stores here for weeks, the cheapest were 50-60€. The good ones are 80-90-100€. Oak country house plank.

Oak parquet from about 22€. Then two-layer parquet (completely sufficient for underfloor heating). Your 80-100€ will soon be massive castle planks.

I paid just over 30€ for my Haro country house planks oak smoked (briefly) and oiled. High-quality branded parquet.