Bathroom Flooring
Sometimes, the last room in the home to be remodelled is the bathroom. However, when you finally decide to bring your outdated room into modern times, the floor is likely one of the biggest changes to be made and what a difference it will make! Although you have a choice of many different floor types, we wanted to suggest a few that do better in bathrooms than other types. For starters, ceramic makes excellent bathroom flooring. This material is natural, made from clay, water, and minerals that are then pressed into desired shapes. From there, the ceramic is fired and depending on the tile chosen, it would be glazed or unglazed.
Tile used as bathroom flooring is extremely durable, strong, and it looks great. Although ceramic was at one-time considered an expensive option, today you can find all types of colours and patterns for an affordable price. If you go with glazed ceramic for your bathroom flooring, you will enjoy a wonderful selection of colours, sizes, textures, and shapes. Although glazed tile is used in some commercial use, it is most popular for residential use. These tiles come in a variety of sizes although for bathroom flooring, the most popular are the 12 x 12-inch or 18 x 18-inch. In addition to the base tile, you can enhance the bathroom flooring by adding border tile or even a medallion.
Although you could use smaller ceramic tile for your bathroom flooring, we suggest you sick with the larger size. The reason is that the grout joints will be much easier to keep clean. For cleaning of the tile, all you need is a damp sponge and tile cleaner. The only drawback is that grout with ceramic flooring will show wear and tear sooner than other types of flooring but you can re-grout or purchase grout cleaning products. Another option is to choose coloured grout such as grey or taupe that looks better.
A second type of bathroom flooring that you find in homes across the country is resilient or linoleum. This type of material is practical and available in many colours and patterns. With this, you would choose between a sheet of material or tiles. The most common types would include linoleum, again in sheet or tile, rubber sheet or tile, or cork. All these choices are affordable and they look great.
Resilient bathroom flooring is easy to install and even easier to maintain. Considered a moderately durable material, this flooring looks nice and is comfortable on the feet. When choosing the best type of your bathroom flooring, we recommend you avoid the rubber sheet or tile since this can deteriorate over time when it becomes wet. Other than that, all you need to do is follow the manufacturer's recommendation for installation and care, and you will have beautiful new bathroom flooring.
Your bathroom should look just as great as the rest of your home and by changing out the bathroom flooring, it will. You will be amazed at what a difference there is just from removing the old flooring. Now all you have to do is add special touches with lighting, hardware, and accessories and you will have a room of which to be proud.