Limestone floor in a kitchen. Is it madness?

[Geneticsbunny]

We are having underfloor heating (wet on a solid floor) put in our kitchen and I need to decide on flooring to cover it. Am going for something traditional like DIY kitchens Helmsley for the cabinets so want to keep the traditional feel with limestone but I am worried it might stain or be hard to maintain. Anyone with any advice/suggestions?

We just had one laid without heating so hoping it’s going to be FINE!

We have a pale sandstone floor in our kitchen. It's fine for keeping clean, apart from the odd grease spot. Get some really good matt tile sealer and seal the tiles before they're laid. Use this stuff: www.lithofin.co.uk/en-gb/pro-tip-removing-oil-stains-natural-stone on any grease spots (you leave it on overnight and sweep up a white powder in the morning - magic stuff!). And I find it easier to wet mop - basically slosh loads of water around on it, then mop it all off with a squeezed dry mop. Comes up lovely!

Thanks everyone. Next question is do either of you have recommendations for where to buy limestone tiles?

I am doing the same as you! We can't afford underfloor heating though.

I have samples from floors of stone. I then looked on ebay and there is a company who do it for £22 ish per square metre. I can't remember the name, but do a search on ebay.

We had a travertine floor in our old kitchen from floors of stone. I sealed the tiles myself before they were laid and then sealed again once done. It was beautiful though.

We are now in the middle of a renovation of our new house and have chosen a porcelain tile from floors of stone which has a stone look about it.

Limestone is a porous rock that is attacked by acids. I'd go for a limestone effect.

www.valleystoneproducts.co.uk/
Got our tiles from here. Cost £33/m, but the tiler was gobsmacked - he thought they would have cost min £80-90/m, so we were quite pleased!!

MY BF has one. Its beautiful if you look superficially but she hates it and has had all sorts of problems with it.

I'd never have a stone floor in the kitchen again because I found it really hard on my legs and feet when I was doing a long cooking/baking stint. But that could well just be me - happy to be told so!

try looking at vinyl tiles worth a look, if you get issue with one simply get lad out to deacrtivate glue and replace

I have underfloor heating and limestone tiles (which came from Mandarin Stone). It looks great and I've never had a problem with it in five years.

Cloudtree what sort of problems?

Boykeepsswinging good point but i think we will need something hard with the underfloor heating to make it work well?

Thanks pigletpoglet will check them out.