<p>The wood-look planks I was picturing were vinyl “tiles”. If I recall correctly, they were applied over the concrete with an adhesive glue. I have also seen the wood-look ceramic tiles, but I bet they are quite expensive.</p>
<p>Life got a little busy since this thread in late July but finally had our floor installed yesterday. Vinyl planks - it’s all and more than I hoped for! Somewhat wider planks. Has some grooving like wood floors. Not too shiny. Comfortable to walk on. Fast installation over concrete flooring! The planks actually lock together. Am putting a beautiful rug I purchased over it but plenty of floor also exposed - I’m SO satisfied at this point! We are definitely going to remember this product when we are ready for some flooring renovations at our cottage - a nice alternative to natural wood flooring. </p>
<p>Always like to try and report and give thanks for advice received on a thread - so thanks a bunch! </p>
<p>Any thoughts on wood look LVT vs wood laminate? Ruled out tile completely.</p>
<p>You need to run away from that store that’s giving you advice. I do like the wood look tile but it’s pretty expensive. You can use engineered hardwood over concrete and below grade (basements). They have to use a vapor barrier, 6 mil plastic under the engineered planks but it’s very cheap, $20 for 100 square feet. I have had engineered planks in my beach house for more than eight years and it looks like normal wood and it still has no scratches. It receives full sun light as a sunroom would. The finish is much harder than normal hardwood. It was about $4.99 per square ft. at the time. </p>
<p>The condition in question for the wood floor was the winter conditions in the room. While the room has one radiator (which doesn’t work to it’s capacity IMO) and a portable heater, winter nights like last year can make the room quite cold. </p>
<p>I’m happy with the wood look vinyl planks. It was important to me to get a style that had the wood plank “grooves” with each plank to give the floor some dimension. </p>
<p>I hadn’t thought about it being cold. I’ve seen some vinyl planks that look realistic. I would double check the manufactures site about vinyl in a cold room. I have to keep my floors at least 50 degrees in the winter. Vinyl shrinks a lot in the cold. </p>
<p>We did check with the manufacturer and two different installers. I actually trust our store quite a bit - they have done other flooring for us. They were the caution ones about proceeding and took time/energy to talk to a few different people. They advised us to make sure the room was at 55 or above for a couple days after installation - no problem since it happens to be seasonally warm this week! For the most part, the room is kept above 50 - but we wanted to error on the side of caution especially after last winter! There are french doors to the sunporch - we only close them off on the very cold nights so we don’t have the furnace kicking on all night - then at that point, the one small radiator and the portable heater on a timer keep the room cooler than you want to be in, but not ice cold! In the morning, we open it back up as the cold morning air warms up. </p>
<p>Of course now I have a banner ad from Builder Direct at the top of the page. Love those Google leads…</p>
<p>We have hardwood throughout our home and needed to replace the nasty vinyl in the kitchen when we were doing the remodel. After a lot of looking, I went with Trafficmaster Allure Interlocking Vinyl Planks from Home Depot- honestly, with the threshold in place, it’s hard to tell the difference without looking really hard. I used some of their stone-look tiles for the rear entrance hall- the slightly textured surface makes it (and the kitchen floor too) non-slip for the dogs. They are all easy care, are warm to the touch in winter,and don’t show any wear at all.</p>