Utility room floor?

[DitaVonCheese]

What's the best thing to put on our utility room floor? Rest of the ground floor is quarry tiles but for some room the utility just has lovely poured cement. I'm leaning towards lino but put off by the floor in our current (rented) house which has paper-thin lino which rips all the time - most of our furniture in there is on bits of cardboard to protect the floor (and very sightly it is too) but there are still random chunks out of it. Is this just some uber-cheap monstrosity? Is it because it's not glued down? Not sure I can really be arsed to put down laminate or tiles ... Any other ideas? Ta :)

I have lino (marmoleum) and absolutely love it:

Soft and warm underfoot (I tend to go barefoot a lot at home).

Easy to keep clean - two rugby players in the family.

Great colours and fits the period of my Edwardian home, without looking old-fashioned.

Hard-wearing enough for the NHS.

Very eco-friendly - totally natural product.

But I picked a lovely maroon colour in the kitchen/ utility which needs sweeping all the time. A lighter colour would have been more practical.

tiles if you can. lino is hideous. imho.

I'm a big marmoleum fan for kitchens, bathrooms and utility rooms. Eco friendly and very tough.

grendel you surprise me.

I'm surprised at you for being so hidebound, HerHonesty

Don't you think marmoleum has retro-cool?

And look, it gives mums super-powers so they can move so fast they blur:

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Seriously, my parents had it, and it was extremely tough, warm and hard-wearing.

yes willing to conceed... but i have an aversion of anything that tries to look like like something it isnt. iykwim.

I am trying to find out the name of an artificial finish that i saw at a friend's house that look great. Will get back on this.

It's called Karndean.

We have quarry tiles in kitchen/dining room. I like them because they are really hard wearing and don't look dirty even when they are (dogs/kids/DP's friends) One of the tilers said that they are used in professional kitchens.

here

yes, tiles are good. We have these in the hallway with underfloor heating pipes but could be a bit pricey for utility room.

TDiddy . the tiles and the underfloor heating.

iloveMrObama - thanks but it isn't all honkey dorey here. High ceilings meant that we should have kept the odd radiator downstairs ...and we didn't so I'll be lighting the log fires this winter.

Anything but karndean it is the work of teh devil! marmoleum looks great esp in colours.I like the sound of the maroon.Dalsouple is good too and comes in many colours.i am tiling our whole ground floor bar the sitting room but am tempted to have rubber in the loo/utility for the colours

for karndean

We have marmoleum in the dining room/kitchen bit, and while it looks fab (and is warm underfoot, soft fluffy eco-profile etc) I must say it is blood easy to scratch. If you have to move your washing machine or even a heavy table if there's grit underneath the leg, you'll get unsightly scratches that fill up with grime and are hard to ignore. It also, being somewhat porous and organic, takes stains from organic substance (curry and soft fruit here!) something awful. I thought it was the best thing since sliced bread a few years ago, but would hesitate to put it in again now.