Hardwood Floors?

[dpenning]

Hi, it's me again. I feel like a pest as I keep asking so many questions but I really want to be prepared. At the same time as I'm researching puppies I'm considering doing some home remodeling. I've seen a picture of a puppy on hardwood floors and I'm wondering if any of you have these huge dogs on hardwood floors? I've had newfies on ceramic with lots of area rugs for traction. How do hardwood floors hold up to the massive breeds? Anyone with firsthand experience?

Thanks,
dawn

 

[stephanieb]

Hi!

I'm new here too. We brought home our 10 week brindle EM boy last week. We have hardwood and so far it hasn't been a problem (he doesn't go fast enough to wipe out LOL). However our lab/rottie cross that passed away this winter hated them. She was constantly skidding out and my floors willl have to be totally refinnished or replaced if I ever want to sell. And I am sure once baby is full grown, 200 pounds of nails means the hardwood is going to again take a beating. In short, if I were redoing my floors I would go with laminate. Some of it looks almost as good as hardwood, cheaper and it withstands a lot more.

Hope this helps!

 

[Cody]

We have mainly tile on our main floor and berber in the walk out. The dogs wipe out often up stairs, but we try not to let them play up here. They go nuts downstairs, as soon as they get down there and have some traction, it is a danger to stand as you will be taken down

 

[HPezzullo]

We Have all hardwood floors.. I use area rugs.. But the floors take a beating with the dogs nails..
I recommend keeping their nails trimmed bc when they do run around they use their nails for tracksion..

 

[dsaw247]

We have hardwood floors and it took our puppy a few days to figure them out (of course, he was an older puppy and a little skittish of everything). The hardwood doesn't bother him now, but if he hears someone getting him a treat, he'll have a wipe out in his rush to receive his cookie. We started with lots of rugs, slowly taking away some, and we have left others

 

[AKBull]

We have hardwood and the only issue Junior has is after a bath... He gets all riled up and then it's a train wreck as soon as he races out of the bathroom.

 

[Marrowshard]

We've got mostly hardwood and stick-tile (in the kitchen and bathroom). Husband tends to get upset at little scratches, but quite honestly with 2 clawed cats already they weren't going to be pristine. Besides, scratches give character, right? Ebony did fine on the floors, she actually preferred to lay straight on the bare floor in hot weather. She was an older dog, so she didn't do much running or jumping around, but we tried to keep her in the kitchen when using treat so if she DID skid out, she'd only scratch up the cheapo stick tiles.

~Marrow

 

[Caleb]

We had Dupont laminant flooring in our old house and it was bulletproof, and looked like wood, and if I remember correctly it cost a bit more than the typical wood floor, except for bamboo, etc. Never a scratch. I even beat a spare piece of it with a hammer when I was installing it to see what it could stand up to. Regular wood floors seem to scratch pretty easily in my opinion. When we were looking at houses while moving, we avoided them.