Hi,

thinking of having parquet flooring but existing flooring is ceramic and no intention to hack away. Anyone did it, please share your experience and how's the level of the flooring as I think the parquet flooring would be slightly higher and bottom of the door gotta be saw away.

You are not considering using laminated flooring? If you are going to use Parquet flooring, tried to hack the floor, they will lay cement for you. They lay with Parquet. This method will last longer.

If you overlay with parquet with the existing flooring, might fear in 5-10 years, the tiles might pop-up, which might be same result like laminated flooring. I was told by many reno id, this will happened. It is not because of the parquet flooring no good, it is fear of the floor tiles might suddenly pop-up.

By the way, is it just bedroom or it include living hall??

Hi,

thinking of having parquet flooring but existing flooring is ceramic and no intention to hack away. Anyone did it, please share your experience and how's the level of the flooring as I think the parquet flooring would be slightly higher and bottom of the door gotta be saw away.

i had no problem laying laminated tiles over ceramic tiles, as the laying turned out nice and professional -- head to my blog to see pics. whether parquet floor or laminated floor, you can lay directly over the existing ceramic floor. like you, i was initially concerned about the laminated floor being higher than the original, but in the end it was ok, not noticeable at all.

b/w parquet and laminated floor, i prefer laminated floor because my previous parquet flooring needed re-polishing every 5-6 yrs, and the parquet shows wear and tear in locations where the chair rests/moves about. i learnt from the web that laminated flooring do not suffer from such issues, the only issue maybe the "feeling" and "sound" as one walks on the laminated floor. after a few weeks, however, you get used to it and the laminated floor feels good and solid now.

my preference? give me laminated floor anytime!

Edited December 2, 200817 yr by BlueFly

Beside now laminated flooring especially AC5 is cheap (but made in Malaysia) is about $3.4 - $3.8 psf, depend you do living hall.

currently using AC 5 from Kronotex for my 3 bedrooms. Was thinking its still very fake since the feeling and knowledge that its not parquet really dont go down well with many people. Many people still feel that laminated flooring is cheapo. I'm considering to do parquet for my next place as just sold my current flat. No problems with AC 5 from Kronotex now....really unlike other houses we visited as dont have the pop pop feeling when walking around. During the midst of my house searching, we been to 2 flats, done up with laminated flooring and gaps here and there. Really looks so badly maintained. So far mine dont have such problems and I cant imagine having such problems.

Edited December 3, 200817 yr by hello88

First thing, i think its not fesible to overlay paraquet flooring over an existing ceramic flooring.

paraquet need to be lay over on cement screed using max bond and nails

Secondly, laminated flooring is not cheapo, you get what you pay for.

$3.80 compared to $8 or $9 paraquet?

there no comparison at all.

My suggestion is to hack off the existing ceramic and lay with paraquet

but laminated flooring is another option for you also.

thanks