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Originally Posted by Lups
So we picked out floors earlier, but the hubby is being really difficult. He wants these almost 30 cm wide oak lanks (we call it parquet here, wood but the under layers are different wood sorry I ran out of vocabulary). Grey and abt 130 euros per m2.
I want avocado floor (oak, the name was avocado, so I'm going to fucking use it), same structure, dark, half the price.
My floors would last the age of a wooden floor, and hide the destruction made by kids and dogs fairly well. His floors however can be sanded down twice (mine once) so my question is and do note I will show your answer to him: We will live in the flat for 2-6 months. How many fucking sandings will our floor have to endure considering our dogs nails have short nails (never touching the floor) and the kids play with hard toys inly on carpets, and our lobby will have tiles, and it is a flat so all shit falls to the common area?
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You'll likely never sand the floors, even if you were going to be there for 2 to 6 years, probably not even if you were there for 26 years. (depending on quality of finish on the wood)
I'm assuming that the top layer of wood is covered in a urethane finish. It's that finish that you're walking on. If ANYTHING, you might screen the floors (sanding machine, but no sand paper. Just to scuff up the existing finish.) and apply new finish. But that's about it. People live on wood floors with full families and dogs for 20 years before having to screen and reapply a new urethane finish.
Not sure how it works in the north pole, but here, the warranties given out with wood floors are based on how long they believe the finish will hold up. So if you're buying a 20 year warranty wood, the manufacture is hedging their bets that the finish will hold up under normal foot traffic for at least 20 years.