Retrospective floor fitting

[Clarehandaust]

I have animals that I love daily, but I can’t trust them not to whistle on the floor nine times at 10. They’re okay but occasionally they’re not and it’s occasionally too often to risk it.
So I want to tile my utility room and my kitchen
But I can’t put the flooring down. I’m gonna have to wait for that.
Is that even possible or am I causing myself additional insurmountable problems?
TIA

Love dearly 🤦‍♀️

Do you mean you need flooring down after a kitchen has been fitted? The fitters will take the kickboards off if that’s what you’ve got. They aren’t expensive to replace if needed.
Recently replaced the flooring in our newly fitted kitchen ( floor fitted by our kitchen co) We had 2 floods in 2 weeks, in the kitchen their fault, and water just went under the click together tiles! Replaced with Karndean wood effect LVT.
We have 2 dogs but they don’t have accidents. Seems very hard wearing though.

No, so I’m not replacing the kitchen. I just want to tile the back wall and behind the kitchen units.
I know you’re not supposed to go all the way underneath the units with floor tiles, but actually that’s what the previous owners have done
I’m worried about the piss going underneath the kickboard

I'm struggling with what you're asking @Clarehandaust and I don't know why you say you're not supposed to tile all the way under the cabinets? I was told by a designer that this is exactly what you are supposed to do (in case you ever want to reconfigure the kitchen).....

We used to have a DDog that had accidents when he was old and our flooring (cathedral limestone) went all the way under our cabinetry. Never had any issues with wee going under/behind the kickboards, although we did get through industrial quantities of Simple Solution and I guess it depends where the wee is deposited 🙄

That’s interesting. I had been told that you weren’t meant to tile the floor all the way under.
I’m absolutely going to be tiling the wall behind because it’s an outside wall and it’s got mould on it
Lord knows where the water is coming from, but if it was tiled, it would be dripping on the floor
So that’s that issue
I just always thought that you had to tile up to the wall tiles in order to meet them and therefore run the sealer over it

You are going to tile the wall behind the cabinets? That will just trap the moisture in the wall and it will come out higher up. It would be best to work out where the moisture is coming from. Do you think it is condensation or is water coming in from outside through the wall?

I think it’s condensation the kitchen is what would’ve been the outbuildings of yesterday.
If you imagine the outside toilet has kind of been joined onto the house
Walls knocked through
Doors moved bugger all insulation
And bugger all Ventilation
The problem is these houses are not worth spending the money on if it was my forever home
You’d probably knock the lot down and start again

But thank you for mentioning the tiles I would’ve made that mistake

If its condensation, then you could fix it by insulating the wall before you put the cabinets in.

Presumably that Would require me to remove all the plaster though

Hello OP, I am sorry, I am not understandng your initial post at all. I have read through everything following to attempt to clarify what you are asking /wanting to achieve.

If you have condensation then you need to open your windows every day for 10mins or so.

That aside, are you looking for an easy to clean floor? There are lots of nice looking laminate options that are cost effective and easy to install.

I concern with the laminate is any gaps whatsoever will get wee on them and it’ll stink and they’ll be obviously ruined in the long-term. I think need something that’s in one piece.
Thank you For responding,

Surely your landlord should be the one to fix any mould behind cabinets and also tile floors?

Not necessarily. You could do anything from insulating wallpaper through to building a frame, infilling with kingspan and plastervoarding over.

As if I’d be renting with a dog and a cat that pisses everywhere