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Kitchen Flooring

Looking to get a new floor for the kitchen, have tiles currently but a few have got smashed and when replaced sink.

Have seen granite floor tiles @ £20 per sq metre, not to sure if they will be repairable once cracked.

What is the best type of flooring for a kitchen that's waterproof?

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  • Steve_Groves
    Steve_Groves Posts: 101 Forumite
    It should be quite hard to crack floor tiles. Weaknesses are usually where there are voids below the tile that allow some movement and ultimately breakage.

    Look at how you use the kitchen. If you are immaculate in how you live then you could get away with the high gloss / porous nature of granite but if you have kids or pets then steer clear of it.

    We had lovely black slate previously but with children and cats then it always looked terrible unless scrubbed. We resorted to the welly test where we got various samples and got the kids to stamp all over them in muddy wellies until we found one we liked that didn't show the dirt
    mackiem wrote: »
    Looking to get a new floor for the kitchen, have tiles currently but a few have got smashed and when replaced sink.

    Have seen granite floor tiles @ £20 per sq metre, not to sure if they will be repairable once cracked.

    What is the best type of flooring for a kitchen that's waterproof?
  • mackiem_2
    mackiem_2 Posts: 14 Forumite
    Movement is due to not having plywood under the tiles just laid them on top of the concrete, so after the extensive testing under the wellies what colour was your tiles?
  • Steve_Groves
    Steve_Groves Posts: 101 Forumite
    They are a multi-coloured light and dark browns with a mid sheen. Anything with constant colouring showed up the dirt.

    Thinking back to the slate, we even had a game trail where the cats came through the catflap and wandered off into the rest of the house from where wet paws had taken the slate sealant off.

    mackiem wrote: »
    Movement is due to not having plywood under the tiles just laid them on top of the concrete, so after the extensive testing under the wellies what colour was your tiles?
  • andyhop
    andyhop Posts: 1,996 Forumite
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    mackiem wrote: »
    Movement is due to not having plywood under the tiles just laid them on top of the concrete, so after the extensive testing under the wellies what colour was your tiles?

    If you have a concrete floor then you do not want to be retiling and fitting plywood onto this

    You may need a decoupling membrane from ditra then tile with a good quality flexiable adhesive such as mapei keraquick

    We have been fitting Pergo Laminate in kitchens for a while and have had no issues yet,some have been down 3+years and still look like new
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  • mackiem_2
    mackiem_2 Posts: 14 Forumite
    will take that on board, had seen the ditra membrane when I got tiles last time but though it would not make any difference and just be a waste, what a mistake I made
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