In article . com, DerbyDad03 wrote:
On 25 Oct, 15:38, "J" wrote:
I had been leaning toward installing laminate flooring in our kitchen, but a
recent incident tells me that this might not be a good choice: Our water
heater resides in a closet that is part of the kitchen and during the middle
of the night, a leak sprung up that flooded the kitchen. How well would
laminate flooring recover from being flooded (or hardwood for that matter)?
With the water heater basically in the same room and our washer is also in
the kitchen, would it be more prudent to choose a different floor covering?

Thanks.

The first question I'd ask myself is this one:

"What are the odds that my kitchen is going to be flooded again? Take
the number of catastrophic water heater leaks in a given year and
divide it by the number of installed water heaters.

And dishwashers, faucets and associated water pipes, icemaker
lines and the list goes on. Kitchens suffer plenty of spills
and floods, some minor and some major. I would never install
flooring that wasn't waterproof in a kitchen, bathroom or
laundry room. Floods happen!

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