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Post by waferswafers on May 27, 2013 15:40:56 GMT -5
We're in the process of choosing new flooring for the living room and Hall, and were thinking of replacing the carpet with laminate flooring. Our kitchen/diner has ceramic tiles with a slightly rough surface, and our grey has no issues on it.
However, we wondered if she may have a problem with walking/gripping on laminate flooring? My fiancee feels she may slip and hurt herself, whereas my logic is that if she can walk ok on the kitchen tiles, then it shouldn't be particularly different on laminate...
Anyone else got opinions on one or the other?
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Post by sammy13 on May 27, 2013 15:55:31 GMT -5
When we had laminate Sam used to slip on it and as his legs got worse we changed it back to carpet. Nell wasn't keen either
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Post by lurcherlot on May 27, 2013 16:21:29 GMT -5
Some seem to be OK on laminate flooring, but my personal experience is that they hate it ..... carpets rule here!
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Post by nataliesian on May 27, 2013 16:37:28 GMT -5
Mak rubbish on laminate but not too bad on anything a bit rough. We have wood floors at the moment and that's ok. We really don't let him go up or down stairs where the flooring on them or at the top or bottom is anything but carpet inside as he tends to corner and his legs go everywhere :0)
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Post by animalslave on May 27, 2013 16:49:25 GMT -5
Again I discover my greyhounds do not believe they are greyhounds! Both mine are fine on laminate (my mother has it in two rooms) and when it's warm love it to pieces as they lie on it to cool off!
The problem with mine is plastic flooring and vinyl they HATE vinyl
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Post by jackie on May 27, 2013 18:01:35 GMT -5
We have laminate in some of the rooms and all mine have struggled with it, some worse than others. The dogs walk on their nails to try to get some grip and if they try to move too quickly or turn around their legs go everywhere. I have rugs covering virtually all of it to prevent accidents.
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Post by gazer on May 27, 2013 19:07:51 GMT -5
I personally wouldn't get the really shiny type, lots of hounds don't like it and really struggle, some can even build up a bit of a fear about it and refuse to go across the room because they are afraid of slipping.
I'd stay with carpet, hounds are so much happier on something they can get a grip on.
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Post by sassbu on May 28, 2013 2:40:18 GMT -5
My first thought is you can't use greyhounds and logic in the same sentance  However more seriously, we changed our upstairs from carpet to laminate and my grehound adapted fine, not sure he even noticed. Our foster greyhounds that came after did not like it at all though and never went upstairs again  We have wooden downstairs and all dogs coming in our home have been fine with that. If you keep in the back of your mind that you might need rugs or runners on top of laminate incase its not working out, I expect all will cope, is there anywhere you can test yours out first, a friends perhaps? |
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Post by andywillow on May 28, 2013 3:01:31 GMT -5
We did away with carpets some years ago when all our old greyhounds were getting incontinent and we couldn't get rid of the smell of urine. We took a long time looking round for the right flooring as laminate isn't good if they wee because it can get down the joins and lift the floor, also it was too slippy for our old dogs. One of my neighbours showed me what they had down and said her 2 dogs were fine on it, a friend of theirs did it for us, I cannot for the life of me think of the name of it, its similar to karndean but it was a cheaper version, it is german made though. Its glued down and we've been really pleased with it. Is usually our kitchen flooring that new foster dogs don't like which is laminate, ours are absolutely fine on it but we just put large pieces of vetbed down if we have any dogs who panic. We've also got a large piece of nonslip vetbed near the door incase its wet to stop them slipping.
Our old dog hated all the flooring but most of the time he'd walk absolutely fine on it then suddenly go up on his nails and start to panic so when he was still with us I literally vetbedded the house! But at least it could be shoved in the washer when we had any accidents.
I love our living room flooring, its textured and easy to keep clean. Wish I could remember the blooming name of it! I hadn't seen it anywhere before until my neighbour mentioned hers.
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Post by barbaranixon on May 28, 2013 3:24:36 GMT -5
We have old Marley tiles (soon to be replaced) in the kitchen and a bare wood floor in the bathroom. As my cavaliers got older (Joly's having the problem, now) they did slip very easily (usually back legs going under), so though it would suit Teddy's dust mite allergy, I won't consider laminate.(I'd probably slip on it, too).
My dogs are near the floor, so I imagine it would be much worse for long legged/tall dogs.
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Post by waferswafers on May 28, 2013 3:25:38 GMT -5
Thanks for all the replies! We've both got a day off work tomorrow, so think we will go look at laminate and carpet, and have a good think.
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Post by vickyb on May 28, 2013 4:21:21 GMT -5
We did away with carpets some years ago when all our old greyhounds were getting incontinent and we couldn't get rid of the smell of urine. We took a long time looking round for the right flooring as laminate isn't good if they wee because it can get down the joins and lift the floor, also it was too slippy for our old dogs. One of my neighbours showed me what they had down and said her 2 dogs were fine on it, a friend of theirs did it for us, I cannot for the life of me think of the name of it, its similar to karndean but it was a cheaper version, it is german made though. Its glued down and we've been really pleased with it. Is usually our kitchen flooring that new foster dogs don't like which is laminate, ours are absolutely fine on it but we just put large pieces of vetbed down if we have any dogs who panic. We've also got a large piece of nonslip vetbed near the door incase its wet to stop them slipping. Our old dog hated all the flooring but most of the time he'd walk absolutely fine on it then suddenly go up on his nails and start to panic so when he was still with us I literally vetbedded the house! But at least it could be shoved in the washer when we had any accidents. I love our living room flooring, its textured and easy to keep clean. Wish I could remember the blooming name of it! I hadn't seen it anywhere before until my neighbour mentioned hers. Is it Amtico Sue? Laminate's a no no for Gracie and we've had to put non slip rugs on it where we've got it the bedrooms which does defeat the object a bit. We've got a really thick, sound and heat insulating textured vinyl in the living room and I love it. The dogs are fine on it, cleans easily, quick to lay and when the time comes will be easy to replace. At first I was a bit 'vinyl's for kitchens' but there are some great ones available. I know several people here have wood effect ones and they look great on the pics they've posted. I'd never put laminate in a room the dogs used now. |
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Post by andywillow on May 28, 2013 4:49:29 GMT -5
No its not amtico Vicky, far too expensive!! I'd never seen or heard of it before. Think it cost us about £1000 but its a living room/dining room so a biggish area
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Post by barbaranixon on May 28, 2013 7:15:03 GMT -5
Some carpet tiles are washable.We had Co-op brand ones in the kitchen(very similar to Heuga)and they lasted for years.Any soiled ones were put in the washing machine, but eventually the backing disintegrated.
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Post by lilypie on May 28, 2013 7:29:05 GMT -5
We have laminate everywhere except stairs an landing and textured tiles I kitchen and wouldnt go back to carpet. We have a runner in the hall and big rugs in eavh room.
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