12-21-2018, 12:54 AM
2.5 yrs in and our engineered hardwoods are ok. You can see dog scratches if you look real close. We are pretty anal about the kid building/crashing shit on the carpet in our living room if we are hanging out downstairs, vs a free for all on our floors.
I'd recommend a matte finish to hide dingo scratches, gloss shows way more. My friends have "real" hardwood floors, gloss finish, see every scratch from their dog and dent from a kids dropped toy. Our dog is a spaz, and if you walk around a corner unexpectedly she turns into bambi on ice and digs in.
Matte finish has helped hide scratches in the "Clear Coat", if the sun hits it just right you can see them.
Plus rugs at the bottom of the stairs and doors, where dogs usually dig in to get a head start up the stairs or out the door, have saved the heavy traffic areas.
Nothing has penetrated the color, except for the god damn socket and ratchet I dropped on day 2 of living here. But, i wasn't anything the included wax crayon couldn't fix though.
The old house we ripped up some carpet and put in some cheap laminate. It held up well to 2 dogs for 4 yrs.
But, if you are planning for resell, hardwood floors are going to be one of those boxes i feel like everyone checks, just cause.
I'd recommend a matte finish to hide dingo scratches, gloss shows way more. My friends have "real" hardwood floors, gloss finish, see every scratch from their dog and dent from a kids dropped toy. Our dog is a spaz, and if you walk around a corner unexpectedly she turns into bambi on ice and digs in.
Matte finish has helped hide scratches in the "Clear Coat", if the sun hits it just right you can see them.
Plus rugs at the bottom of the stairs and doors, where dogs usually dig in to get a head start up the stairs or out the door, have saved the heavy traffic areas.
Nothing has penetrated the color, except for the god damn socket and ratchet I dropped on day 2 of living here. But, i wasn't anything the included wax crayon couldn't fix though.
The old house we ripped up some carpet and put in some cheap laminate. It held up well to 2 dogs for 4 yrs.
But, if you are planning for resell, hardwood floors are going to be one of those boxes i feel like everyone checks, just cause.