Helpful Home Tips

Bathroom Floor Options
If you are replacing your bathroom flooring or installing flooring in your new home’s bathrooms, you’ll want to carefully choose the type of flooring that best serves the needs of your household.   Your choice of bathroom flooring is important because you’ll have to live with that choice for many years.  While there are numerous options for bathroom floor materials, you’ll want to consider the advantages and disadvantages of each option.  In general, your options include carpet, wood, tile, vinyl, and bamboo.

Carpet
Carpet is not a good choice for a bathroom floor.  Not only is it difficult to keep clean and dry in a bathroom setting but when moisture soaks into carpet, serious damage occurs to underlying materials causing them to deteriorate.  In addition, moist carpeting can result in mold below the surface of the carpet and set you up for respiratory hazards and germs.  Consequently, carpet is probably not an option you’ll want to seriously consider for your bathroom flooring.

Wood
If you choose carefully, wood is a viable option for bathroom flooring.  Standard wood flooring is not your best choice though as it can be damaged by moisture.  However, you can have a wood-like floor in your bathroom by using laminate flooring or engineered wood flooring.  Laminate flooring is flooring that provides a layer of decorative, waterproof material over wood chips.  Engineered wood flooring is flooring specifically designed to resist moisture.  Unfortunately, moisture sometimes seeps into laminated flooring, so if you want wood flooring in your bathroom, engineered wood flooring is probably your best option. 

Tile
The most popular choice for bathroom flooring is ceramic tile.  A natural design choice for bathrooms, tile flooring is relatively inexpensive, completely waterproof, easy to clean and ascetically appealing.  Whether you choose subway tile or some other style, ceramic tiles come in colors and shapes to complement any bathroom décor.  Glass tile is also an alternative and has all the advantages of ceramic tile except it is somewhat susceptible to scratching.

Vinyl
Vinyl flooring for your bathroom is one of the best and most used options available.  Though less visibly appealing, vinyl is cheap, versatile, easy to install and moisture resistance.  In addition, vinyl is relatively maintenance-free and durable.  If cost is the determining factor for your bathroom flooring, vinyl is the option for you.

Bamboo
Moisture resistant, mold resistant, eco-friendly bamboo flooring is gaining momentum for bathroom flooring among traditionalists as well as cutting-edge designers because of its green-friendly features.  Though a viable bathroom flooring option, bamboo is still a relatively new addition to bathroom flooring, making it very expense to purchase and install.

Make sure you research your options for bathroom flooring before choosing one.  And, don’t forget to consult a licensed plumbing contractor or servicer to make sure your selection is workable for the plumbing system you already have in your home or the plumbing system you are planning to install.

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