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

[langlandgirl]

should be researching splashbacks but am distracted!

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.

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

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.

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

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.

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.

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)

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.

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

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

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?

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.

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.