I worried ceramic would be too cold?

You can run heating under ceramic floors. When we build our new house that is what I want in the intire house. Absolutely no carpet.

Oh hubby won't go for that...I 'm positive :rolleyes: I do plan to get an extra room heater though, just in case.

We got this.... I dont knwo if you can see it but it is VERY VERY thick and looks just like tiles, They have ridges jsut like rock and the grout look area is actually textured to look like real grout. The carpet guy couldnt believe how thick it was and he came back to do my kitchen a year later and told me he put the same stuff in his house after seeing mine. It has a warranty I think it is a 25 year warranty. It is not shiny like linolum and really lookes like rock
This isnt the exact company but it is like this but wiht a much longer warranty

http://www.armstrong.com/resflram/na...itemId=73054.0

http://www.armstrong.com/resflram/na...itemId=83648.0

armstron flooring
Very very sturdy and the colors mask footprints till your ready to mop; Very easy to clean, does not stain and people actually get down on their knees and feel it because they dont believe it is not realy stone
I love mine.
BOnnie

Having put in several types of floors, here's my opinion.

1. Laminate - not good. Even the expensive stuff. There are voids between each piece that the urine can get into. It will buckle the cheap stuff quick. If it doesn't buckle the expensive kind, it will absorb the smell.

2. Tile - Cold, yes, but that's not the main problem. The grout absorbs the urine and can change colors because of it. Again, no way to get the odor out. However, it would be my second choice. I am planning to try and seal my floor tile with polyurethane, something I've never tried before, but hoping to have good results.

3. Laminate - also absorbs odors. It is more porous than you think. Good thing about it is it's cheap and can easily be replaced if you don't use an over abundance of glue. Bleach removes majority of odor - my first choice.

4. After hearing about the carpet samples, I'd probably be tempted to try it.

Best of luck to you.

Has anyone tried the vinyl planks? Some call them PVC planks. They look like wood but are waterproof.

BTW Pergo is a brand name of laminate. My friend did her home in Pergo -- it was beautiful and she loved it. But she doesn't have puppies peeing on it -- so not a full test ;)

I have ceramic tile through my foyer, kitchen, breakfast room and laundry room. I am not crazy about it. It gets very cold and everything that you drop on it -- breaks immediately -- no reprieves. My foyer has dark grout that never shows any dirt. But the kitchen has light color grout and it seems to be very porous. Always a pain to keep looking clean. I am sure it needs resealed. Thinking I might call the Grout Doctor I saw advertised.

I want to get rid of the carpet in the rest of the house but it is not very old yet. It will probably have to wait on a few other things. Old houses always need something!

The pee will also stick in the carpet and the carpet pad. even if it is stain and moisture resistant. When you get that much liquid in one area some is bound to go through, especially in the seams. Then once you clean it you have to re stainguarde it bc the stain garde washes off. Also puppy poop sticks pretty good in carpet fibers.

Everything will have its problems. I have rooms with just about all types of flooring in them, cement, carpet, wood, woodlaminate and linolium (sp). And the one I would prefer my pups to go on is the linolium. Yes it is slick, but while the pups are little we keep them in the welping box. Then when they are a little older and starting to move we put them in a little kids plactic pool, the mom can get in and out and the pups have room to run around, we stick a blanket in half the pool and pee pads in the other half and this gets them started potty training pretty good. Then when they are big enough to jump out of the pool I put a couple of blankets down and a few pee pads down in the room (with the pads tucked under the edge of the blanket) then the pups can explore a little but they can also stay on what if familar to them if they want. Any of the pups I've had at my house haven't had problems walking on linolium after 4 to 5 weeks old.