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Bathroom Floors, What Do You Have?

27 replies

CrazyChicken · 22/10/2011 14:34

We've got a white bathroom that needs a floor. Was hoping for something coloured but am finding it hard to find coloured tiles.
Do you have any? Where did you get them? Or what do you have?

OP posts:
JWIM · 22/10/2011 16:33

We have Amtico - American Oak.

izzybiz · 22/10/2011 16:34

Black slate floor tiles, from KDP tiles.

BedatHogwarts · 22/10/2011 16:37

We got some amazing sparkly orange vinyl from this company, and they do all sorts of tiles in different materials and colours too, all at trade prices!

Cheeseandseveredfingersarnie · 22/10/2011 16:39

we live in a rented house and its pale cream carpets throughout!i hate carpet in bathrooms!

Driftwood999 · 22/10/2011 17:04

imho avoid tiles, they are cold underfoot (they are essentially stone) so unless you have underfloor heating, not a good idea but sadly so many persist with it! If you drop anything it will smash to smithereens. Cushioned vinyl all the way for our bathrooms, there are ranges for every budget.

countessbabycham · 22/10/2011 17:08

IME Driftwood is right.We used tiles in old house and cold and can be slippy.I wouldn't use them again.We now have cork tiles because that's what was there and they're fine but when I do replace it'll be cushion vinyl.

betheldeath · 22/10/2011 17:11

I have glittery black skytech tiles

My bathrooms look like mini night clubs. I am SO chuffed [hgrin]

bessie26 · 23/10/2011 07:12

We have rhino floor vinyl which is pretending to be tiles. It's great in our upstairs bathroom, but is a bit chilly underfoot in the winter in the kitchen (a concrete floor), they did put some underlay down, but we wish we'd got them to put more down now.

OhThisIsJustGrape · 23/10/2011 07:32

We have glittery black tiles in our bathroom but cushioned vinyl in the childrens' bathrooms.

Tbh, as gorgeous as they are, I do kind of regret getting the tiles. They were very, very expensive, cold underfoot (obviously :)), if you drop anything there are no second chances - smithereens!

The worst bit is that we have very hard water and any drips that aren't wiped up dry leaving a White mark of limescale. I'm forever washing the floor!

The vinyl in the childrens' bathrooms looks as good as it did when it went down and is much warmer :)

exorciseisgoodforyou · 23/10/2011 07:36

We've got dalsouple in a dark blue - comes in big tiles with adhesive and we only needed a couple of pack of tiles. Really amazing colours.

valiumredhead · 23/10/2011 13:08

Marble - love it!

CointreauVersial · 23/10/2011 13:12

Tiles in the downstairs loo. Tiles in the new ensuite (with underfloor heating....mmmmm...). Lovely and neat, bombproof, easy to clean.

The family bathroom has (gah!) carpet. It was there when we bought the house, and was it fairly new, so we thought we'd wait until it got trashed, then change it for vinyl. It is still on our to-do-list. Blush

CointreauVersial · 23/10/2011 13:13

Oh yes, bought the tiles from B&Q and Tilebase. Nothing fancy, just off-the-shelf.

SquongebobSparepants · 23/10/2011 13:21

Carpet. Hate it.

BatmanLovesRobin · 23/10/2011 19:50

Carpet. Also hate it.

Doomandgloom · 23/10/2011 21:34

Rubber floor tiles,bright red with slightly raised circles on.Very popular in elevators! Sounds awful but it kind of works.

TheGhoulsAreJewelled · 25/10/2011 13:39

Cream tiles. They looked good, but cold and slippery, and now some of the grout has gone black, and I curse them daily (rather than cleaning it). Btw, what do you use to clean grout? Or will it need redoing?
Got them in Wickes - liked them the display, too expensive, walked to next aisle and they were on sale. Even better, we may have returned some unused boxes for a full, non-sale price refund.

Mackrelmint · 26/10/2011 14:38

Just bought some coloured vinyl flooring for all-white shower room from here: www.colourflooring.co.uk/ - they have some good colours. Haven't seen it down yet, but sample looked nice. And not as slippery/cold as tiles.

Yorky · 26/10/2011 14:53

We got slate effect tiles, cheapest wallsandfloors do! but even when the underfloor heating isn't switched on they aren't as cold as the ones in the kitchen?

As an aside - What do you all keep in your bathrooms that you're so worried about smashing - apart from calpol bottles?

JumpJockey · 26/10/2011 15:02

Oh I love the coloured vinyls! Have been looking for our new shower room and they're all so ugly, plain colour would be fab :)

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said · 26/10/2011 21:26

We have the coloured vinyl. Agree that it's quite slippery and it shows every single hair. Not sure I'd choose it again.

JumpJockey · 26/10/2011 21:48

Oh no, don't say that... Then again this is for shower room moztly to be used by grown ups rather than kids.
Stupid question,how do you put tiles down in such a way as to be waterproof? Doesn't it leak between the gaps?

Mackrelmint · 27/10/2011 18:33

Oh dear! Too late for us now - but only a little over 1m2 so I guess a bath mat will solve the problem if it's too slippery.

Xelonista · 20/03/2013 17:33

I think they must have changed their supplier again because I bought my coloured vinyl from the Colour Flooring Company last spring for my kitchen and I haven't had any slip issues. I went for Lemon yellow. The colour is lovely. It's been down a year with my DS kicking a football round on it and it still looks like new. AND it worked out to be half the price of Amtico? I just think it goes without saying that any floor that gets wet is going to be a bit slippery - that's what bath mats are for!!