Bathroom Flooring in Sheffield

A Sheffield bathroom in a post-war semi sits on joists upstairs, and the rigid vinyl tile from the BML range over a levelled, sealed deck is the light option there; the tile itself is listed as waterproof, and it follows the small movement of a timber floor without cracking a grout line. Where the bathroom is on a slab, in a bungalow in Totley or a ground-floor wet room, porcelain from the tile range has the rigid base it needs.

Both the vinyl tile and the porcelain come in textured surfaces, and the grip rating for a wet floor is chosen from the maker’s data rather than assumed. The Berry Alloc panels close the shower with interlocking boards and no grout lines, which in a bathroom under a Crookes roof with a small extractor is the surface that stays clean. The shower area is tanked before the floor goes down.

Semi-detached houses are 38% of the Sheffield 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 26% of the homes in Sheffield, and a terraced bathroom in Sheffield 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.