If I don’t want tiles on bathroom floor…. What’s best?

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I do not went tiles on our new bathroom floor. In our old house we had vinyl but I’m worried it could damage easily (ours got a small rip in it when something sharp landed on it) unless we just got a not very good one before.
Any suggestions of alternative flooring?

We have Marmloeum, had it fitted for 20 years and it’s been brilliant. We have a light marbled effect in the majority of the bathroom but we have a curved Bath and the fitters were able to shape the darker inlaid border to follow the lines of the Bath. I think it also has natural antibacterial properties (but not 100% sure on that). It’s ‘warm’ underfoot, more forgiving if you drop something on it, easy to keep clean and not slippy. I’d have it again without question!

Tiles as in ceramic tiles? They sell LVP that looks like marble or stone.

Harvey Maria vinyl tiles…v hard wearing and not cold underfoot, plus loads of patterns.
I have them in my kitchen and then did bathroom floor in them as was so happy with them.

Vinyl has changed massively in the past 10-15 years.
It's definitely worth looking at some of the vinyl tiles now available. It's a completely different beast to the rolled lino I know from my first bathroom.

Yes we had rolled vinyl in our first house. Was debating between rolled vinyl or vinyl tiles - Karndean I’ve heard is meant to be good?

Are they easy to lay yourself? Presumably need to stick onto ply?

Even middling to good sheet vinyl is better than what used to be available and is better than tiles for surfaces that regularly get wet.

we had them installed but a fitter, kitchen was screed laid over quarry tiles and then the vinyl tiles, bathroom is ply over floorboards. I think they’re glued down.

i think you could DIY but I didn’t fancy it, I have done lots of normal tiling but felt screeding an 8 m kitchen too big a job for dIY. Guy did such a good job I got him back to do bathroom.