Suitable flooring for kitchen/fireplace needed

2024-11-29 08:22:30

Kitchen = tiles. Unless you are extremely picky and always wipe immediately afterwards or use the kitchen mainly for reheating dishes in the microwave.

You can tell me whatever you want. When I fry a steak, 3.5 minutes full blast on both sides, then 10-15 minutes at 80°C in the warming drawer, the floor under the stove is full of grease splashes afterwards. Under my built-in coffee machine, there are constantly small coffee splashes. With kids, things constantly fall down, I wouldn't even want to see the dents in the parquet...

If it's supposed to be a real kitchen that is used... take tiles. Even if there are a few die-hards who convince themselves that parquet would also be great and totally easy to maintain. Not true...

That's the difference between hearsay and personal experience. I have had parquet in the kitchen for at least 20 years now and have done the same in our house because it's simply not a problem at all. I cook a lot and enjoy it and by the way, I don't have a microwave at all. I have neither dents in the parquet from things constantly falling down nor a permanent greasy film or water stains.

Everyone should do as they please - I don't need to preach to anyone. What annoys me are these absolute statements from people who don't even speak from their own experience.

2024-11-29 08:26:23

I don't need direct experience with parquet when I look at how the kitchen floor in our house looks after 3 days without wet mopping... but never mind, I already said that. For the tough ones, it might be fine because nothing ever falls on the floor or they mop twice daily without thinking.

For the average family, there is nothing more impractical than parquet in the kitchen.

2024-11-29 08:35:49

There is nothing more impractical than parquet flooring in the kitchen for the average family.

That’s what I meant by "absolute statements from people who haven’t even spoken from their own experience." Where does your firm conviction come from that your opinion is always and 100% the only possible truth?

I just wrote that I have been cooking a lot and with pleasure in a kitchen with parquet flooring for decades and (my personal!) experience has been that the scenarios you described have never been a problem for me. You respond along the lines of: "I have no idea, but I’m definitely right anyway!"

Of course, I sometimes drop something. But that doesn’t mean the parquet automatically gets ruined. What do you throw around in your kitchen?

2024-11-29 08:47:37

Oh sorry, I always forget. Of course, there is also the option to make a nice real wood floor waterproof with clear lacquer. I really didn't think about that horror story at all. Then it may be suitable for the kitchen, but of course it has also lost every property that makes a wooden floor a wooden floor. You might as well use vinyl.

2024-11-29 09:40:30

You can tell me whatever you want. When I fry a steak, 3.5 minutes full power on both sides, then 10-15 minutes at 80°C in the warming drawer, afterwards the floor under the stove is full of grease splatters. Under my built-in coffee machine there are constantly small coffee splashes. With kids something is always falling down, I don't even want to see the dents in the parquet...

I stick with parquet – even with three kids and a big dog. BUT: If I have a mini countertop with 60cm, it of course splatters more than with a properly deep countertop. I can't even imagine a kitchen with such a narrow countertop, for example. The space is worth its weight in gold. Dents in the parquet, by the way, are a matter of the wood. Oak dents very little, but if I use maple/birch/larch & co., the parquet "suffers" significantly.

2024-11-29 18:12:35

We have had parquet in the kitchen for 13 years. No problem at all. We also don’t have a microwave.

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