Solid Hardwood, Engineered and Laminate Flooring - What should I put in my tripple wide manufactured home?

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tripplewide
05-02-07, 07:41 AM
Hi everyone! We are pulling our ratty old carpeting out of our home and want to put down some other type of flooring. We are looking at around 900 square feet of flooring. The 2 family rooms and hallways and one bedroom will be refloored. It is a manufactured home that we intend to live in for a while but not decades.

In our house are 2 dogs, 3 declawed cats, 2 primarily outdoor cats and 2 kids (8 and 5). The dogs spend most of the non-rainy days outside but come in when everyone gets home from work/school. We don't get a lot of spills but we do have a pool and the kids do come in and out from it. None of the flooring will be in bathrooms, laundry room or the kitchen.

So what do you recommend? What's easiest to clean? Can hardwood stand up to that? My wife wants linoleum as she thinks it will be a lot of money for little gain with the hardwoods or laminate. I don't want linoleum as I think it would make our mobile home look more like a cheap mobile home.

I would like hard wood but is it a good choice here. Is vinyl plank good here too?

Thank you for your opinions

--Chris


tripplewide
05-02-07, 08:12 AM
To follow up, I do have the OSB flooring in the home. No particle board to worry about. Humidity isn't much of a problem as the crawl space has a vapor barrier. Also, this is not a do it myself project. I can't draw a stick figure let alone cut and paste flooring. As Dirty Harry said, "A man's got to know his limitations" and I know mine.

Thank you again.

--Chris