Calling 1930's homeowners - if you have a porch what is your flooring like?

[langlandgirl]

should be researching splashbacks but am distracted!

[Qwebec]

Well, I have a slightly younger home, but everyone I know who still has the original porch from their old home has the same as me. This.

[ChopOrNot]

We have the origional terracottery (technical term) quarry tiles. www.tileexperience.co.uk/authentic-red-quarry-frostproof-floor-150x150x12mmmm?kw=&fl=1000&ci=82560870156&network=pla&gclid=CjwKEAjwxce4BRDE2dG4ueLArHMSJADStCqMsgpNvDFRkoNsHurpIs8o1EnP3SRoRS3yvzsaX73MGBoC9wHw_wcB

[PigletJohn]

yes, quarry tiles. I think encaustic tiles and granolithic were out of favour by then. Use black grout, as white will never be clean.

I presume you mean the porch is outdoors, so wood is not suitable in the UK.

[Misty9]

Ours is carpeted....probably concrete underneath though?

[Pipbin]

Do you mean the storm porch out the front?
Ours is tiled in the same tiles as our bathroom floor - not by us.
All of our neighbours have the regular concrete, often painted.

[langlandgirl]

no sorry, it's a newer internal porch extension and now i see how stupid my question was! I guess we could go parquet given the hall is parquet and we are probably going to bring that back to life eventually.

[PigletJohn]

Even an internal porch will get more muddy boots and wet umbrellas. If you do go for a finished wood, get the biggest doormat you can, in front of the door and also the bench where you take your boots off (if room)

[langlandgirl]

thanks all. i think tiles or marble maybe? Is marble a bad idea - i was thinking of looking for offcuts as it's not a huge area.

[PigletJohn]

marble is quite a soft stone, and dissolves in limescale cleaners, fruit juice, and spilled coke.

[SunshineOutdoors]

Not in our porch but in our hallway we have black and white check tiles

[Chewbecca]

We've got black & white check lino. Porch not original though so has a concrete floor.

My parents' 30s house has the original floor which is red tiles.

I'm not sure about marble for a floor?

[thenewaveragebear1983]

No porch here but our bathroom, which was the original kitchen in 1930s, has as pp desribed, reddish terracotta -y square tiles about 3in square.

[CaurnieBred]

For our new "porch" that is really a hallway extension with a toiled added, we have put a fitted, sunken footmat which covers the width of the hallway and extends a metre into the house. It then meets the wooden floor. Much sleeker than doormats which kept moving around.