Bathroom Floor - What's Yours?

[~Kaz~]

Couldn't agree more. We have tiles. Can't stand 'em either cause it gets really cold in winter here and winter goes for 9 months of the year......

We're going to be building a new house soon (hopefully!) and will have tiles again but there will be geothermal heating through the entire slab. Aahhh.....18 degrees, all year round.

[~*Niadalla*~]

We have lino.

[fionas]

Ahurani - I would LOVE to have carpet. Does it get wet?

[HotI]

Oh no! We are about to do a reno and put tiles in. I was excited cos we going all s****y with tiles. And I told DH that under floor heating was over the top! We have lino currently

[Visitor7]

And here I was thinking, well tiles, what else?? BUT, I've never woken up to minus 4 degrees either!!! lol So yeah, tiles is all I've ever known/seen in bathrooms.

[Nai]

We have tiles and to be honest with kids, it is practical as they spill stuff, splash water out of the bath etc. Yes, it is cold in winter but I either wear socks or slippers around the house and I don't spend that much time standing on the tiles. I don't actually find Melbourne that cold so it doesn't bother me really.

Growing up in cold Ballarat we had cork tiles on the bathroom floor which were warmer and I think wood or lino would also be warmer. The added benefit is that things won't smash if they are dropped on the floor like tiles - and there is so much stuff in the bathroom that can break or smash if dropped on tiles! Carpet would get wet and stinky I think although you might be able to get stuff these days that is designed for wet areas but in my mind I'm seeing 70's shagpile

[fionas]

The wooden floor in our old bathroom was fantastic. And it warmed up even more because we had ducted heating in there. People freak out about wooden floors in bathrooms because they are scared of water damage but we never had a problem and we weren't precious about them either.

I'd only do tiles with underfloor heating but we'd have to rip out the tiles to put in underfloor heating so might as well choose something else methinks.

[deletedit]

Tiles in both houses - both of which are in cold climate so we know about negative temperatures - and wouldn't do it differently. Bathroom here is tiny so one bathmat covers most of the room. Our new house will also have tiles.

It stays so wet in the bathroom when it is cold, you'd need uber-sealed timber in there (or solid hardwood floors like they have in old houses) or you'd get moisture damage from hell. We can't leave towels or bathmats (we rotate the bathmat) in there or they simply don't dry. I have laminate timber in the kitchen and it already has water damage near the oven from condensation on it so I'd never do laminate in a bathroom.

[Tinks]

We have tiles in 1 bathroom and Lino in the other. I'm with you Fionas I hate the tiles with a passion! They're cold and slippery.

We have cork tiles in our kitchen which I really like.