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Edinburgh · Scotland

Bathroom Flooring in Edinburgh

Edinburgh flats put the bathroom over another home almost without exception, and the factor agreement usually specifies the acoustic layer. Depth is the binding constraint, and an original door height rarely forgives a thick tiled build-up.

Bathroom in Edinburgh

Bathroom flooring in Edinburgh: what the housing says

Vinyl fits inside that budget and takes water without absorbing it, while porcelain adds height that needs planning from the joist upwards.

The Edinburgh shower room is usually a box room with no window, above a neighbour and below another, and the two things that defeat it are impact sound and condensation. The floor answers the first with the resilient layer the title requires under a tanked, levelled deck; the BML rigid vinyl tile on top keeps the build-up shallow, and the tile itself is listed as waterproof. Porcelain from the tile range answers water for longer but needs a base rigid enough to keep its grout whole.

Condensation is answered on the walls before the floor: the Berry Alloc panels interlock into a shower surround with no grout for the damp to find, and an extractor that runs on after the shower does the rest. In the Granton new build the bathroom is on a slab with the tanking part of the build, and porcelain is the simpler floor there. Grip ratings for a wet floor come from the maker’s data, not from assumption.

conservation areas
50
postcode districts we deliver to
13
bathroom floors in our range
52

Source: Council conservation area register · Postcode districts: postcodes.io (ONS geography) · Range: our product catalogue

Delivery to Edinburgh

We deliver across Edinburgh and Scotland. Most in-stock orders reach Edinburgh within a timeframe that depends on the delivery postcode. We also cover Glasgow, Stirling, Dundee and the Scottish Borders.

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Local conditions

Two sets of rules therefore apply at once. The title deeds usually set a minimum for impact sound underfoot, and the listing governs what may be done to original fabric — including lifting historic boards. Both are settled before a board is chosen, not after.

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In porcelain, the 600 x 1200 mm tiles: Luna Blanca Matt Porcelain Floor Tile, Night Lux Matt Porcelain Floor Tile and the polished Taj Mahal Pearl; the matt faces are the usual bathroom choice. In rigid vinyl, the click planks such as BML Light Oak SPC Click Flooring and the BML Cement Light SPC Click Floor Tile, listed as waterproof. For the walls of a shower, the five Berry Alloc Wall & Water Shower Panels, 600 x 2400 mm, listed as waterproof.

ProductFormatWear layer / thicknessFittingUnderfloor heating
BML Natural Oak SPC Click Flooring5.2mm x 181mm x 1220mm0.3mmClick · listed as waterproofCompatible
BML Grey Oak SPC Click Flooring5.2mm x 181mm x 1220mm0.3mmClick · listed as waterproofCompatible
BML Herringbone American White Oak SPC Luxury Vinyl Flooring6.5mm x 126mm x 630mm0.55mmClick · listed as waterproofCompatible
BML Herringbone Antique Smoked Oak SPC Floor6.5mm x 126mm x 630mm0.55mmClick · listed as waterproofCompatible
BML Misty Oak SPC Wide Flooring6.5mm x 228mm x 1524mm0.55mmClick · listed as waterproofCompatible
BML Ash SPC Wide Flooring6.5mm x 228mm x 1524mm0.55mmClick · listed as waterproofCompatible
Berry Alloc Wall & Water Shower Panel White Brooklyn Concrete1.44 Square Metres10.2mmInterlocking System · listed as waterproof
Luna Blanca Polished Porcelain Floor Tile 600 x 120010mmCompatible

Local fact sheet

Edinburgh's homes, by the numbers

Edinburgh by postcode district: EH1, EH2, EH3, EH4, EH5 and EH6 and 7 more.

Just under half of Edinburgh's homes were built before 1945 and 66% of the stock is flats — a higher share than any other major UK city apart from Glasgow. Both facts push in the same direction. Tenement flats sit on timber joists shared with the neighbour below, so impact sound insulation is the first specification, not the last, and many titles and factor agreements say so explicitly. The floor beneath is usually original boarding that is neither flat nor consistent, so levelling comes before choosing. In the Old Town, Leith and Inverleith conservation areas, and in any listed tenement, removing that boarding needs consent. Western Villages and Silverlea at Granton are the exception: new screed, underfloor heating, engineered wood.

Edinburgh's tenements put flats over flats behind stone facades, and in the New Town a great many of them stand inside a conservation area or a listed terrace. That combination is unusual: the floor is governed from below by the flat underneath and from outside by the building's protection.

Delivery times and options depend on the delivery postcode. See Delivery & Returns for the applicable estimate.

Guides

Before you choose

Before you order in Edinburgh

  • The edges, not the middle The bath, the tray, the door threshold: sealed as the fitting instructions describe. That is where water gets under a floor.
  • Matt or polished A polished tile is a different floor when wet. The HSE's pendulum grades tell you how different; a matt face is the usual bathroom choice.
  • Timber floor under a tile A first-floor bathroom on joists flexes. A tile over it needs a stiff base or it cracks at the grout; the vinyl floats over it.

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Questions

Bathroom flooring in Edinburgh: questions, answered

Tile or vinyl for a bathroom in Edinburgh?

Porcelain is permanent, cool and hard, and suits a wet room with a fall; rigid vinyl listed as waterproof is warmer, quieter, floats over a timber first floor and can be lifted. Both need the edges sealed properly, which is where a bathroom floor fails if it fails.

Are the wall panels a replacement for tiles?

In a shower enclosure, yes: a panel runs floor to ceiling in one piece with a joint every 600 mm instead of a grout line every 300, and it is listed as waterproof by the manufacturer. The panel guide explains the datasheet and the fitting.

Can I lay a bathroom floor over underfloor heating?

The tiles and the rigid vinyl are listed for it. The screed is dry on a reading and the system commissioned before the floor goes down; the surface limit in a bathroom under EN 1264 is 33 °C.

Is flooring affected by Edinburgh’s cold climate?

Cold alone does no harm. What moves a floor is the swing between a long heating season indoors and a cold, damp stair outside the flat door — so fit at the moisture content the flat will actually hold, and leave the expansion gap the board asks for at every edge.

Do you deliver bathroom flooring to Edinburgh?

Yes. We deliver across Edinburgh and Scotland from our UK warehouse, including the EH1, EH2, EH3, EH4, EH5 and EH6 postcode districts. Delivery cost and timing depend on the delivery postcode and are shown at checkout, and samples come by post first so the floor can be seen in the room before the full order.

Can I see a bathroom sample before ordering in Edinburgh?

Yes: cut samples are £1.99 each, up to two per product, posted to your Edinburgh address. Two or three side by side on the floor, in the room's own light morning and evening, settle the colour faster than any photograph.

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