Lino for bathroom

[hooliodancer]

In my quest for quick fixes I am probably going to bore you all...sorry!

The bathroom in the (hopefully) new house is brand new but really not to my taste. We have a finite budget.

The floor is awful though. Is there any such thing as sniveling that won't cost much to lay? It would go on top of horrid stuff that is sort of welded to the floor.

Thanks!

Lino!!! Not sniveling....

Do you mean sheet vinyl? Lino is different, not as widely found and more expensive. Vinyl is usually laid on top of ply board over the floorboards. If you lay it over whatever is already down, the edges of whatever it is will eventually show through. Best to take up the flooring you don't like first. Do you have a picture of the current flooring? It'll probably be glued on. I'm guessing it's either LVT or a laminate.

If it's laminate that won't be glued as it's a floating floor.

Here is a picture of what is there now.

So I might have to take it up to replace it? That puts the cost up as it looks very stuck down!

On the same subject, I was thinking of covering the quarry tiles in our current kitchen with lion, but I don't want to ruin the tiles. Again, it would be a quick fix to rent out the house. Is this possible? Thanks.

Lino! Bloody autocorrect.

That's sheet vinyl. It's inoffensive imo - I'd wait until I had more money available and put down the flooring I really wanted if I were you. Sometimes fitters stick it down, often it is only stuck around the edges. If you remove it yourselves it will cost less than paying someone to do that. If the boarding underneath is sound then new vinyl can be laid on top of it once the old vinyl has been removed.

If you want to cover the quarry tiles (why?) then in order to get a good finish you would probably have to get it screeded. There's no guarantee you'd be able to get the screed off at a future date. Again, if you put sheet vinyl over the top of the tiles as they are now, the outline of the tiles will pretty quickly show through with people walking on it.

The quarry tiles have several missing which we have strategically put furniture over. Also in the dining room extension there is no floor, so quicker and cheaper to cover it all up to rent out!

We will literally have about 2 grand to get it to rent out, so replacing tiles is out, and it will look shit if we don't replace them. I love them!

Sorry, no flooring in dining room. Had to rip it off for a leak.

Quarry tiles should be pretty standard and cheap to patch up rather than redoing the whole floor. Cheaper than covering them with something else. If you are renting the house out just leave the bathroom floor as it is and patch up the kitchen floor. Put carpet, vinyl or laminate down in the dining room.

If you intend to live in the house at a future date, you will probably want to replace some of the floor coverings after a period of renting it out anyway so wait until then. There is no point doing unnecessary work and incurring unnecessary costs. Make sure everything is clean and in good repair and you have the various checks required by law carried out. That's all you need to do.

Thanks for your help! Yes, perhaps I will leave the quarry tiles. They are Victorian and the size is different now, so I need reclaimed. I did a row of them 18 years ago and it was a massive palaver! The gaps are filled with concrete, which was the issue.