LVP and resale value

8 years ago

I've got a 1975 ranch house with hardwood floors in the den, foyer and hall. I'm going to replace the Berber carpeting in two bedrooms with LVP because of the allergy problems in my family. I'm thinking of replacing the worn parquet tile in the hall and foyer, too, because the floorsanding guy said that if he sanded the parquet, the adhesive they put it down with is likely to get warm and soften up and pieces are likely to come up. The foyer feeds into the hall and the hall feeds into the bedrooms.

Question is: If I replace the hall and foyer floor along with the bedroom s with a high-quality luxury vinyl plank, is that likely to hurt the resale value down the road? It will probably be 10 years before we sell and to me, the easy care of LVP is a real draw.

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Maria Privat
8 years ago
It might actually help sell the house better. More and more people have allergy problems. So you might highlight that your house is allergy proof. And LVP doesn't have to be sanded every few years either. All I see are advantages, both now and in the future.

With resale value in mind it is of course wise to choose some LVP, that is not only high quality, but also fits very well with the house and also with the taste of a lot of people. So don't go to exquisite.
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m_gabriel
8 years ago
We went through the same dilemma with a 7 year horizon in this house and decided to just get the vinyl plank and move on with our messy lives with kids and dog(s). Wood would surely have been better but our house is not nice enough to "deserve" that $$$ outlay. Future buyers will almost certainly be young families so I hope the easy upkeep either appeals to them, too, or they can decide to put in the wood floors.
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Milly Rey
8 years ago
Crap parquet should go. Good stuff should stay.