Bathroom Floor Tile Laying: Renovating Your Bathroom
Laying bathroom floor tiles is one of the things to consider if you want to renovate your bathroom. What type of flooring should you choose? What characteristics should a bathroom-suitable floor have? Which tiles are suitable for a small bathroom? How high should the wall tiles be laid? How to match the floor and wall tiles? Is it necessary to remove the old flooring to lay a new one?
The answers to these questions will help you decide how to best renovate your bathroom. The specialized team of My Company is at your disposal to advise you at every stage of the project and turn your vision into reality.
Choosing the Right Flooring
The installation of bathroom floor tiles is a demanding task, as are many renovation works. Therefore, it’s wise, even before starting the renovation, to carefully evaluate the choice of material to ensure it’s suitable for the intended room.
This is true for all rooms in your house, but especially for the bathroom and kitchen. These two rooms are most subjected to humidity, water splashes, temperature fluctuations, and impacts.
Characteristics
The bathroom is one of the most humid rooms in the house and needs to be sanitized frequently. Considering these two characteristics, it’s easy to understand that bathroom tiles should not be too porous, so as to absorb the least amount of water possible and be easy to clean.
They should also be resistant to the action of cleaning agents used for sanitizing and have good impact and abrasion resistance.
Material
- Ceramic: Ceramic is a widely used material mainly because it’s easy to clean and cost-effective. It’s also very resistant to chemical agents. Unfortunately, this material is not very durable. When evaluating the material to use, consider how often the bathroom is used. If it’s a secondary bathroom used occasionally, ceramic might be a suitable choice. However, if you are renovating a bathroom used daily by the whole family, it might be better to find a more durable solution. Often, spending more initially can result in a more lasting outcome, ultimately saving money.
- Porcelain Stoneware: This is a very resistant and versatile material as it can mimic the look of many other materials (marble, wood, stone, concrete, terracotta, etc.) and thus adapt to any style. Another advantage of porcelain stoneware is that it can be laid without grout lines. The benefits of seamless flooring are both aesthetic and practical. A seamless floor is much easier to clean and sanitize. Often, it is in the grout lines where bacteria accumulate and mold sets in.
- Marble: A timeless, classic, elegant, and durable material. Marble, however, requires a lot of care. One of its characteristics is porosity, meaning it tends to absorb liquids and stain easily. Additionally, all acid-based products (vinegar, lemon, bleach, alcohol-based products, and naturally descaling agents) corrode marble. If you decide to use marble in your bathroom, you must also consider the costs of maintenance and polishing. If marble maintenance seems daunting, have you considered installing resin flooring with a marble effect?
Size
The size of the tiles will largely depend on the style you want to recreate. Tiles of all shapes and sizes are available on the market. If you have a small space, don’t think you need to choose small tiles for the bathroom floor. In fact, larger tiles can give the illusion of a larger space.
How to Choose Wall Tiles That Match the Floor
In reality, when choosing the right wall tiles for your floor, you can let your creativity run wild. If you have chosen particular, decorated tiles with a strong personality for your bathroom floor, you might opt for a more sober, minimalist wall tile to avoid overloading the space.
Conversely, if you have chosen a more linear or monochromatic floor, you might play more with the wall tiles, perhaps alternating larger tiles with mosaic tiles, or playing with shapes and colors to create geometric designs and optical effects.
Alternatively, you can decide to tile only certain parts of the bathroom more exposed to water, like the shower or behind the sanitary ware, and paint the rest of the walls.
Bathroom Floor Tile Laying: Personalize Your Bathroom
Are you thinking of renovating your bathroom? The only limit is your imagination. At My Company, we know how to turn your project into reality. We are experts in laying tiles, resins, painting walls, and much more.
