Posted on 03/22/2013 11:47:14 AM PDT by fatnotlazy
I once moved into a house with carperting in the bathroom :(
I went to the home improvement store and bought a vinyl remnant. It was pretty high end, and there is a slight amount of ‘relief’ that you can feel in the pattern.
Simple and cheap...and its lasted for 9 years. And it looks ok - at first glance, it looks like tile.
we have that in the coaches locker room at school. Sorry, I just found it funny!
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She Came In Through The Bathroom Window.
Tile without a doubt. Really not all that difficult to work with and is a very affordable “upgrade”. There is tile that looks like wood flooring so you can have the best of both worlds. I like the look of marble but do not think it is well-suited to the bathroom- especially bathroom cleaning products. Radiant floor heating isn’t too expensive when you are installing the tile. It does feel good in the morning and the dog seems to gravitate towards the bathroom floor as soon as the first frost hits...
When I was newly married and we lived in rent houses, we encountered a couple of them with carpet. I never understood that in a rent house. Most renters won’t bother to tell the homeowner that there’s a leak.
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Mine came up from the floor (the leak). Had to put putty over the hole, then the hole froze. It was awful.
If it’s on a concrete slab, you could do stained concrete. That really looks nice and is easy to maintain.
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I've had water seep under a sheet vinyl floor - nasty.
On thing, though... be sure to lay in a small supply of matching replacement tiles - especially if a shower or bathtub replacment is possible in the future. Write down the brand and color of grout used for future reference, too.
Floors are necessary have dealt with a missing one during remodeling.
I like polished concrete but if you want a little more style try a poured epoxy flooring. This is similar to what you see in commercial kitchen and bathrooms but with more style choices for home use. I don’t anything about this company other than they had pictures of the product for home use.
http://www.flexbonflooring.com/resident.htm
Tile. Very easy to clean.
As an appraiser who has had to look at many bathroom floors, go with ceramic tile. If it is a smaller bath, go with 12” tiles. Larger baths can use the 18” tiles. Do NOT use carpet or laminate. Water WILL penetrate and cause mold issues. Vinyl is as expensive to install as tile and not as durable. If you have a pier and beam home, and want to put in a heated floor, remember you will have a layer of ceramic underlayment for the heating coils. If you are handy, you can do just as good a job laying tile as the expensive installer. There’s plenty of options, just find the one that works for your bath and have fun. You can install it in a day for most baths, with the second day for grouting. Install the grout sealer after the grout has set up well.
We put a very high grade vinyl in the kitchen a couple years ago, looks like stone. We have been very happy with it. It is not cold or slippery or “fragile” like ceramic tile.
1. NO WOOD in the bathroom
2. The cheapest/easiest is vinyl or linoleum. It really is the best.
3. Tile is good, but if the installation isn’t done right, you’re going to be dealing with a nightmare.
4. The other thing to remember with tile is that you’re going to be dealing with grout lines. White/bream/beige will stain over time. If you get mold in your grout lines, you’re through. (I do like tile/stone, but I’m willing to deal with the drawbacks - it looks better and is the best for resale value.)
The biggest advantage of vinyl or linoleum is that it’ll protect you against a disaster. We had a trailer with ugly linoleum. Pipe broke. We cleaned it up. Toilet overflowed. We cleaned that up. After a pipe in the wall broke, I had enough and we tore the whole place apart.
When we ripped out all of the old linoleum, the subfloor and studs were pristine. NO ISSUES. Saved us a bundle on the remodel.
Hubby have been designing our ‘dream house’ for years and I’ve finally broken down and told him that I want the ease of maintenence with v/l over tile or stone for the bathrooms and kitchen. I just can’t justify anything else.
I mean, really! Clean up is a run-through with a Swiffer!
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