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glittery · 04/08/2010 20:58

Decided today with the SW OT to take out the bath and make it into a wetroom for ds, he's only getting bigger and his feet are touching the taps when he's in his bath seat, so the wheels have now been set in motion and im thinking about the flooring.

Probably be the Altro stuff but i looked and there isnt a great range of colours, its the only bathroom in the house so i'd like it not to look too hospitally IYKWIM?

Does anyone have nice flooring that they can recommend, colours to avoid etc?

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2shoes · 04/08/2010 21:50

we had a choice and I chose blue, it looks nice

myra · 04/08/2010 21:51

avoid the beige colour of wet room flooring, i have it and shows up everything and feet prints [carer in with shoes on filling basin with water only]seconds only . me and OH always have bare feet so dont mark it. also wheeled showerchair for my disabled son leaves marks . a hard long handeled brush to scrub the floor with flash or similar i have found is the only thing that gets into all the nobbley bits to clean it.

myra

glittery · 04/08/2010 22:11

2shoes can you remember what shade of blue, was it the sort of turquoisey one?

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glittery · 04/08/2010 22:14

was it one of these?

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DJAngel · 04/08/2010 23:10

Glittery we've got that one altro marine 20 in rainfall, the speckly turquoise one and looks lovely when clean but does pick up mud/dirt and footprints..

Get real experts to do the floor coz it's apparantly really hard to get it right and not leave little pools of water.. sometimes our bathroom stays wet in places for ages and we get wet feet when we go to the loo with socks on!

We got some lovely aquamarine tiles in 3 colours in a sale quite cheap for wall and although took ages it now looks fab and everyone thinks it looks like it's underwater! Like in a swimming pool!

Good luck floor hunting!

donkeyderby · 05/08/2010 00:37

My daughter chose the deep red Altro flooring for our bathroom and it looks quite funky.

We chose a grey/white for the kitchen - disaster...shows up the dirt

Violet5 · 05/08/2010 16:27

We choose 'gull' a light grey colour as just wanted something that wouldn't be to dark and that would go with whatever colour should we decide to redecorate in a year or two.
It looks lovely...but it does show up marks easily.

glittery · 05/08/2010 21:24

I'm now thinking maybe the "shark" darker grey colour as probably going to be getting carers in soon and i imagine they wont bother to take shoes off etc?

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wraith · 05/08/2010 21:59

terquoise blue is what i chose its not to bad but as someone said it picks up marks fairly quickly its not too hospitally though

LollipopViolet · 06/08/2010 10:28

We had a turquoise blue colour in our last house but it was a pain to clean so in this one we DEMANDED that we went back to a tiled floor for my uncle's bathroom. We'd had one when we lived in Essex with no issues, no falls etc but when we came to live where we do now some know all know nothing insisted that we have that wetroom type flooring. If you can do tiles, I'd go for it, much, much easier to clean and you can still design a wetroom with them in use too :)

glittery · 06/08/2010 10:41

unfortunately i think the only choice im going to get is on the colour Sad
i asked for the wall panels as i thought they would be easier to keep clean but i was told no it would need to be tiles as it was easier to fix things like rails etc on to in future....never mind the fact that ds will never need a rail?? Hmm
i would really like something a bit sparkly to be honest, i read once that someone had a sort of glittery black floor but i cant remember who it was?

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