Bathroom Flooring in Nottingham

A student house in Lenton or the Arboretum has more showers per square metre than any family home, and its bathrooms are the rooms a Nottingham landlord refits most often. The BML rigid vinyl tile is chosen there because the tile itself is listed as waterproof, one damaged piece is swapped without lifting the floor, and the Berry Alloc wall panels interlock into a shower surround without the grout that fails between tenancies.

In an owner’s house the choice follows the structure. Upstairs in a Sherwood terrace the bathroom sits on joists over the back extension, and the light vinyl tile on a levelled, sealed deck follows their movement; in a Wollaton bungalow or a Lace Market flat the bathroom is on a slab, and porcelain from the tile range has the rigid base it needs to keep its grout lines whole. The tanking under either is what protects the ceiling below.

Semi-detached houses are 33% of the Nottingham 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 27% of the homes in Nottingham, and a terraced bathroom in Nottingham 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.