Some renovation questions- flooring, laundry and??
We are adding a bathroom, making a new laundry room and reconfiguring some of our basement (doors, stairs, storage).
1. I figured we'd do Luxury Vinyl flooring since it's a basement and would be easy to maintain and wouldn't need to worry about potential water (only every few years do we get a slight trickle on a crazy storm). I know environmentally I could make better choices but let's put that aside for now. What other flooring options would you consider? And, floating vs glue down? My contractor says floating, the flooring store says glue down. I'm more inclined to trust my contractor but I admit to still being confused. The one floor would be something like this Luxury Vinyl Plank https://www.lowes.com/pd/Mohawk-7-Pi...ank/1000560687 (open to any other brand recs- I have a local flooring store we usually use but that Lowe's link is easy). This is the glue down one https://www.karndean.com/en/floors/d...ng-ranges/opus
2. Does anyone have a laundry set that finishes their cycles close in timing? Or am I hoping for something that doesn't exist? Right now my dryer is on it's last legs and takes forever. It'd be so nice to just keep things moving along.
3. Are there any tips you'd put out to consider? This won't be a primary bathroom at all, just one to use as a powder room most of the time and shower for guests. The devil is in the details and I don't want to miss something.
The contractor has worked for us before and has done good work.
Some renovation questions- flooring, laundry and??
We don’t have vinyl plank flooring but my grandma had Pergo in her old kitchen and she loved it (I think she has full hardwood now); my in-laws also live in a dusty high desert area and have Pergo in their entire house and love it because it is so easy to clean. We put in hardwood like tile in our kitchen and bath and love it. We have Arizona Tile and I am not sure if it is regional but it was very reasonably priced. I love how easy it is to clean and the grout hasn’t been bothersome to clean either. The rest of our house is hardwood though so it fit the look we were going for.
We have an Electrolux base model gas dryer and the dry cycle we use most (mixed load with medium heat) finishes in 51 minutes (but it also auto adjusts if the load isn’t super full), but if it is really full we add another 15-25 minutes. We have a Speed Queen washer and I believe the full normal or permanent press cycle is about 40 minutes. We have been very happy with both. If we move into a house that only allows for a stackable set I would buy a front loading Electrolux, but I really love my Speed Queen. The Speed Queen front loafers are super pricey though so we may not even consider one.
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