Bathroom Flooring in Leicester

The bathroom in a Clarendon Park terrace sits upstairs on joists, often over the single-storey extension, and the light BML rigid vinyl tile on a levelled, sealed deck follows the movement of that floor without cracking a joint; the tile itself is listed as waterproof and adds little height at a door the joiner did not cut for a tiled build-up. A Braunstone bungalow or a Waterside flat is on a slab, and porcelain from the tile range has the rigid base it needs there.

A student house in LE2 refits its bathrooms more often than any family home, and the Berry Alloc panels are the wall answer for that: interlocking boards with no grout to fail between tenancies. Whatever goes on the floor, the shower is tanked first, and a textured surface with the maker’s grip rating is chosen for the wet floor rather than assumed.

Semi-detached houses are 36% of the Leicester stock, and the semi's bathroom is upstairs on a timber floor, often over the kitchen. The floor over joists is checked for level and stiffness before a tile goes on it, because a tile over a floor that flexes cracks at the grout; the rigid vinyl floats over it and is the more forgiving of the two on timber.

Terraced houses are 29% of the homes in Leicester, and a terraced bathroom in Leicester is often a later addition, on the ground floor behind the kitchen or in a first-floor extension over it. A timber first floor under a bathroom is the case for the rigid vinyl, which floats and is light; a ground-floor slab takes either floor once the reading says it is dry.