Why am I being told not to like the floor?

[user1958493]

Please help me understand this.

I have moved house and am redecorating the whole house. I want to put tiles down through the entrance, kitchen, cloakroom and utility room. My parents (dad is doing a lot of the work in the house for me) are telling me this is a bad idea.
They aren't really giving me a solid reason why, just a few mentions of "people don't have large areas tiled", "will be cold", "if one gets damaged you can't replace it"

Is it a bad idea to tile an area like this? I dont know if this makes a different but I have 2 kids under 5.

Thank you

I love patterned Victorian style coloured tiles in a hallway. But not big plain ones so much. Flagstones work in country cottages I guess.

@user1958493

Thanks so much everyone I didn't expect this much feedback. My decision has been made, as the fear of my kids slipping/ falling over on it and hurting themselves badly has put me off. (The teeth thing 😩) Also the coldness, it would be really expensive to run underfloor heating in such a large area every winter.

You're going to carpet your kitchen??

Our kitchen is tiled and I hate it. It was like that when we purchased the house and we are saving to renovate said kitchen and honestly it can't come soon enough. Freezing cold most of the year, ridiculously slippy and I have not only smashed a phone on it but also my front tooth when I tripped over and landed face first on the tiles. Yes they are easy to clean but that doesn't outweigh the downsides!

I actually dont think there any easier to clean than amtigo/kardean and I hate the grouting as never looks clean

But they have given solid reasons, if one cracks in 10yrs time can you replace it. They are very cold unless your planning underfloor heating.

@justasking111 no, Some other form of hard flooring

Your parents are right. 2 dc under 5 also.
Tiles are very cold in the winter also very slippy if kids are running around in socks. Also grout discolours and is a pain to clean.

@runningfromtheoutlaws

I actually dont think there any easier to clean than amtigo/kardean and I hate the grouting as never looks clean

We bought a newly refurbished home newly tiled bathroom including floor. I've knelt on that floor buying every guaranteed grout cleaner known to man. This bathroom is coming out, floors, walls, tiled and grouted I hate it. It's not a public loo so why tile every square inch. We've always tiled wet areas the rest painted plastered walls so you can hang pictures, etc

I know you’ve already decided against it OP but just in case anyone else is also weighing up tiles vs other flooring, another downside that nobody mentioned is that it makes the whole place very echoey when large expanses are tiled.

We half half and half in our kitchen diner- lovely patterned cement tiles in the food prep area and wood in the sitting/dining section. Gets lots of compliments.

Good point about echoes, friend has three darlings under five their slate floors, bifold walls echo so much you cannot hear adult conversation whenever they run amok add in the TV it's challenging

[quote user1958493]@justasking111 no, Some other form of hard flooring [/quote]
Why would that be any less ‘slippy’ than tiles? Our flags are sealed and have a lovely satin sheen and no one has ever slipped over. Also protects against filthy grout, though we got mid-grey anyway. And my toddler still has all their teeth. He did however absolutely stack it on a friend’s laminate floor.

Our house also isn’t echo-ey because of the floor. We live in a farmhouse with normal height ceilings. 🤷🏼‍♀️

Was the the sarcastic 🤷‍♀️ really called for @Onairjunkie?

Another poster agreed tiles can be echoey and just because echo isn’t an issue in your farmhouse doesn’t mean it won’t be a factor in a large open plan kitchen diner in a modern extension. I’m sure people can weigh up the likelihood of echo being an issue based on their individual circumstances. Sure, tell us your own experience and offer a different perspective but why the need to cast aspersions on other advice/experience offered? This is DIY not AIBU!

Has anyone got any pics in particular the half and half flooring. I am also considering potential flooring for a new build and want to go external as I’ll have more choice.
Are the porcelainosa wood floor tiles actually realistic and hardwearing and good enough for a hallway kitchen diner living area? I’m also against the LVT but love the look of wood and stone tiles

Ufh, lots of tiles, two under 5. Love it. Especially when someone does a wee on the floor.
Quite glad we had careers when learning to walk tho

Porcelain tiles well laid

@Jxtina86

Our kitchen is tiled and I hate it. It was like that when we purchased the house and we are saving to renovate said kitchen and honestly it can't come soon enough. Freezing cold most of the year, ridiculously slippy and I have not only smashed a phone on it but also my front tooth when I tripped over and landed face first on the tiles. Yes they are easy to clean but that doesn't outweigh the downsides!

If your kitchen is freezing it isn’t the tiles making it cold it’s poorly considered heating.

What’s sarcastic about the shrug emoji, @HaveringWavering? I thought it signified confusion?

I can't really think what sort of flooring I'd have in a kitchen/hall/cloakroom/utility room other than tiles or wood. We currently rent a house with tile through the kitchen/hall/downstairs loo and wood in the lounge. Only 1 small spare bedroom/extra reception room has carpet in it (which I don't really like). We've just bought a house that has no carpet at all downstairs, all tile/slate/concrete depending on the room. Personally, I think it's much easier to clean, but I've often lived in old properties without carpets.

We have tiles throughout the hallway, cloakroom, kitchen/diner and utility room. I love them. Easy to sweep/clean, we got a steam mop too, ok if you frequently drop stuff you’d have breakages but in 5 years plus I can count on one hand the number things we’ve smashed (and we have two small children and a large dog). We have carpet for rooms the kids will be playing in loads or we’re sitting in for longer (playroom, living room etc) but find tiles very practical for the hallway and kitchen etc. I don’t find them particularly cold either.

we bought a house where half the floor area was already quarry tiled. entrance hall, sitting/dining area, kitchen, rear hall and utility.

It was a rural small-holding and the tiled areas were fantastic for muddy kids, multiple cats and wet dogs, wellies etc. So easy to sweep and mop.

They were cold underfoot ( or, lovely and cool in summer) and any solid item dropped on them either broke or got dented. At least the quarry tiles were so hard solid and thick they didn't crack. (porcelain tiles often do).

I'd never have hard tiled floors again. Lino or vinyl or anything smooth warm and washable.

When we bought this house the entire ground floor had been tiled with huge, presumably very expensive, marble tiles.
The owners had let out the property and the tenants were not especially careful so the kitchen floor was just an utter mess of stains on the marble that wouldn't come off. It was cold, slippy and ugly and it felt more like some holiday villa than home.

It made a wonderful flat surface to put a wooden floor over though and slowly over the course of two years the marble was covered. The wood is much brighter and warmer. The ex tenant called in for some post once, saw the floor and her first words were "Oh God thats so much better!"

@Onairjunkie

What’s sarcastic about the shrug emoji, *@HaveringWavering*? I thought it signified confusion?

Yes, as in “I’m confused why someone would say that”. Which is sarcastic!

Because there is nothing confusing about someone having a different experience to yours.

@HaveringWavering

Because there is nothing confusing about someone having a different experience to yours.

I’m not sure why you’ve taken an emoji so personally. I used it to signify that it had no been my experience. (is that one allowed?) I am French so I’m sorry if I have broken some unwritten rule of no-shrugging in the DIY departement but I didn’t know about it.