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Hardwood floors in bathrooms
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Hardwood floors in bathrooms
Andy Hall wrote
snipped a lot of interesting stuff Acrylic is not recommended for bathrooms, so were you to use wood, then a polyurethane would be needed. However, if you don't have small kids and you use a reasonably absorbent bath mat, I see no reason not to use a hardwood floor in a bathroom. There will be a certain amount of movement across the width of the boards with humidity change, so don't expect a tightly butted appearance all the time. I am looking at flooring for my bathroom too and in John Lewis at High Wycombe there's a nice selection of hardwoods, laminates, cheapy click stuff, Amtico and even old fashioned lino. The man there said he would not recommend any type of timber flooring in a bathroom and would not even quote for laying it. So I 'm looking at Amtico at present - I agree with you about the plasticky look ( Peter |
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Hardwood floors in bathrooms
"Peter Taylor" wrote in
: I am looking at flooring for my bathroom too and in John Lewis at High Wycombe there's a nice selection of hardwoods, laminates, cheapy click stuff, Amtico and even old fashioned lino. The man there said he would not recommend any type of timber flooring in a bathroom and would not even quote for laying it. So I 'm looking at Amtico at present - I agree with you about the plasticky look ( When we were considering what to do in our bathroom (in High Wycombe, as it happens), it seemed that bamboo flooring is possibly better than much of the ordinary wood for bathrooms - though still liable to problems if it gets too wet. Eventually decided on carpet so I don't have actual experience. Rod |
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