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We had a new bathroom installed last year and still haven't got round to putting any finished flooring in. It's currently plain floorboards.
Any suggestions for a suitable finishing surface? There's no movement in the floorboards and they are pretty even. Ideally we don't want anything too thick as it would mean taking off the bath panel and cutting the base of that to lift it up. No kids so less chance of water going everywhere.
LVT..... bloody fantastic, excellent surface. Warm underfoot, cleanable and waterproof-ish.
Lino. Old school but works. Well a more modern vinyl version. A bit of thin ply then whack the vinyl over the top. No joins, wipe clean, fuss free
Carpet. We always have carpet in bathrooms. Put your towel on the floor when you have a shower and get used to not splashing and it's really nice.
we went with luxary vinyl flooring from Howdens. Good value, warm under foot, non slip and waterproof. I wouldn't look at anything else now.
Lino. Old school but works. Well a more modern vinyl version. A bit of thin ply then whack the vinyl over the top. No joins, wipe clean, fuss free
This. Loads of good designs now too, we've got vinyl printed/textured like floorboards in our bathrooms, looks great. Really inexpensive too.
Wish we'd put vinyl in the kitchen rather than tiles, TBH.
We have Karndean vinyl in the kitchen so used to it. Might well depend on how thin "thin" is regarding the plywood.
We've got no ply under ours (80's build floorboards)
When I moved in to my house the bathrooms had some good quality laminate floor down but I hated the colour. As a cheap quick fix I bought black and white vinyl tiles from b&q. Pull the paper off the back and stick down.
I think they look really good and 10 years later they are still down and not had any problems. Warm under foot, not slippy when wet. Easy to install. If one gets damaged you can replace it without having to do tee whole floor.
LVT is a type of flooring and Karndean is a brand the has their own offering of LVT, I have Karndean LVT in my kitchen and its lovely, as said above warm underfoot, cleanable and waterproof also if installed by a qualified fitted comes with a 30year guarantee.
Also quite soft, I dropped a pint glass which I was sure was going to shatter and it didnt!
Just had ours tiled with underfloor heating under it too, it would not meet you not too thick requirement though 7-8mm higher than it was before, bathroom door had to be cut down to allow for it! Tiles were porcelain stone-ish looking ones.
To do any Vinyl floor properly, you’ll need 6mm ply underneath 1st as it’ll be a horror show on top of floor boards over time, this applies to sheet or LVT.
You’re going to be adding 10mm minimum to to the floor height with pretty much anything. Laminate is going to be thicker again depending on underlay and tiles with a suitable floor prep, thicker again than that (nearer 20mm).
We have Marmoleum in our bathroom. Seems to last well, has a nice feel, has no off-gassing, and is made in the UK.
Had Karndean in the last house and it was nice but surprisingly not that hard wearing. New house we got old fashioned lino in the small bathroom (marmoleum). It looks great and is supposed to wear well.
Following a roof leak the large bathroom floor budget has gone on paying roofers to apply more lead and we are in the process of just painting the floorboards (with floor paint). This also looks good. Don't know how well it will wear well though.
Kardean and the like - you'll need the bathroom rated versions as the "normal" kitchen stuff isn't rated for puddles of water.
We put lino down. It's warmer to touch and softer than the LVT downstairs, which is great as we spend a fair amount of time kneeling on the floor with kids in the bath. Also don't have to worry about water seeping between the tiles plus it was mega cheap, even for decent stuff.
Just had my bathroom done during the second lockdown and got the floor tiled with under floor heating. Was considering vinyl at first but it would have looked to tacky with the new layout.
As a fairly quick cheap fix in our bathroom I put cork tiles over hardboard, sealed with water based varnish. Three years on it's the same as when I laid it.
A timely thread.
Had a new bathroom put in 5 years ago, double shower enc;osure was never sealed properly, the sealant bead between tiled walls and shower base didn't adhere to the base, so water has gradually leaked under there and caused the tiles to lift. Whole lot needs ripped up and replaced, I won't ever go with tiles again.
That'll be january's job, quite fancy those LVT click in thingies.
We have Marmoleum in our bathroom. Seems to last well,
Had that in a Kitchen and hallway for about 5 years. Didn't show any wear in that time but can scratch a bit.
Had Karndean in the last house and it was nice but surprisingly not that hard wearing
Really? We had it down in a Kitchen for about 7 years and it still looked like new. How was it wearing?
I seem to remember looking at a lot - Karndean is a lot cheaper than Amtico but you have to choose a bit more carefully as nearly all the Amtico styles look good whereas some of the Karndean designs look very 'fake'
We've just been finalising floors for our new house. We've looked at vinyl, ceramic tiles and LVT - we're going with Quickstep LVT for the entire upstairs partly on the recommendation of the builder and also we wanted something with a slight texture as we have dogs. We also looked at Polyflor - a UK company about half the price of Karndean.
Marine ply down on the floor and then anything from the polyflor range.
We use it in the lift industry for lift car flooring, non slip and it lasts for an age.
Don't go for the tiles, go for the single cut sheet.
Just had my bathroom done during the second lockdown and got the floor tiled with under floor heating. Was considering vinyl at first but it would have looked to tacky with the new layout
Vinyl doesn't have to look naff; we've got vinyl in the downstairs loo that is pretty much indistinguishable from the tiles it's printed to look like, ditto the bathrooms and the wooden flooring it's supposed to look like in those.
also we wanted something with a slight texture as we have dogs.
Again, a decent vinyl will (e.g. the 'wooden' stuff we've got has a 'grain').
we used 9mm ply over floorboards, with some kind of feathering compound where the plywood joins are, and big sheet of lino