What type of bathroom floor?

Personally, I think cushioned vinyl style floor is fine for a bathroom, especially if small enough to avoid any seams / welds etc. If putting over floorboards, lay hardboard first to even out the floor. If you turn the edges up and weld the corners you can make it more waterproof. If you tile, the floor will be colder without underfloor heating. With tiles, you should put down plywood (levels may be a problem) with lots of screws, and use a flexible tile cement. Just don't use carpet ! I've just been to a house with the many-years old bathroom carpet lifted. Smells like a pub toilet. Simon.

Thanks, I'm glad you think cushioned vinyl would be suitable, I rather fancy that option myself. I'd like to lay it under the toilet bowl and the sink pedestal rather than cutting around them but I'm not sure about the bath. It's a small room and the bath, with a small box-like extension added, takes up the whole of one wall. Do you think it would be better to lay the vinyl under the entire bath area, or just stop at the outer bath panel? I like the idea of turning up the edges of the vinyl and welding the corners do you think it's feasible to turn the edges up in front of the skirting, rather than behind it?

Tiled bathroom floors look trendy enough but are one of the worst examples of style over functionality you will see in this country! Fine in the med, but not a UK residence with our temperature range.

Phil

Regardless of the location you'll still fall flat on your arse once the tiles get wet.

How waterproof does it need to be? Is MH going to turn the floor into a swimming-pool? For normal use, I don't see the need to turn up the corners - if *really* thought necessary, surely a fillet pinned around the edges to raise them by a 1/8" (or a few mm) would be easily enough?

They won't *be& colder, but they may *feel* colder!

Or even use cork tiles.

That can be a problem with the wrong sort of carpet.

It covers the lot with no joins, and is easy to clean, and feels warm.

Hmm. Difficult. If it can be trimmed right, I would not do that.

If room, run it inder the panel and onto a thin batten.

I don't think you can weld it - seal, yes.

Yes, on a fillet. I wouldn't turn it up over the skirting.

Yes, seems easier to me. I'll go for that one.

Be colder or feel colder is colder in my book. :-)

I did that once, it was OK, a bit brown though.

Yes, prettier patterns than cork tiles too.

I'm a glutton for punishment. :-)

Great idea!

It's not going to get that wet!

Thanks for the tips. I'm really making progress on this, if only in my head. :-)

Highly unlikely in my case. Flat wallet, flat head and flat libido for sure. The arse has a distinct sagging curve to it though. :-)

Not my experience. Each to his own, I suppose but I laid ceramic tiles in my bathroom a couple of years ago. Suspended wooden floor covered with 18mm ply and although the tiles are colder than the old carpet, they're nowhere near as cold as they would be if laid on a concrete base. Non-slip surface, don't mark or scuff and exceptionally easy to clean. Wouldn't have anything else now.

John Miller

That's a problem with the occupants' aim or hygene, not the carpet per se.

MBQ

How's that achieved then?

A fresh layer of evostik?

Rubber suckers attached to your feet?

Magnetic levitation?

I remember seeing some research (presumably a Ph.D thesis or suchlike) that proved that poor aim wasn't the primary cause at all. Apparently, a proportion of the urine is atomised upon contact with the air and is gently deposited by air currents.

In short, bathroom carpets are an absolutely foul, disgusting idea. When I bought a house with a bathroom carpet, it was disposed of before a single item of my belongings entered the house.

Christian.

I think that toilets in bathrooms is a pretty stupid idea - one is for waste disposal, the other for personal hygiene, it just happens that they both require plumbing. As for needing to use the toilet when someone is having a bath ...

I can see where you are coming from. However, I invariably need the toilet within 10 seconds of entering the bath (something to do with being warm and relaxing), and I don't like to foul my own water.

Ideally, you'd have two toilets. Unfortunately, many "two room" solutions have only one basin, with the bath. I suspect when they were fitted decades ago, it wasn't de rigeur to wash one's hands.

Christian.

Isn't that what the basin is for? :-)

We ended up. for reasons of space, splitting the "bathroom" into two. We ended up with one room with the pan and basin in it, and the other with the bath and shower cubicle.

The only thing it isn't ideal for is shaving after a hot bath - ideally you'd have a hand washing basin in one and a shaving one in the other (which means - of course - one without those massive mixers that all hotels seem to think are de rigour).