Those of you with kitchen tiles, do you find it TOO cold?

LydiaJ

Hi everyone. I'm a regular on the house prices board but this is my first post over here on Home/DIY.

This thread is really interesting for me. I am buying a house that I hope to extend, and I will need to redo the kitchen floor once I've enlarged it. It has ceramic tiles at the moment, but I thought they would be cold, so I was wondering about some kind of cork floor. I hoped it might be warmer than ceramic tiles (and more forgiving for dropping/breaking things) but look nicer than vinyl. There was a lovely cork floor in the bathroom of the student house where I lived in my first year at university and I've never forgotten it! Has anyone got any experience of cork floors, and if so, what did you think of them?

Thanks

fidnhilly

I'm sorry I cant help you on the cork as havent had any experience of them but the vinyl tiles I have been looking into (Amtico/Karndean/Polyflor etc) look & feel like the material they are based on - i.e wood/stone/slate etc. They really have won me over! Just need to find a stockist and installer in my area (west yorks)

Sunnyday

We had a sealed cork tiled floor in the bathroom of a previous house and it was fantastic, warm underfoot and hardwaring too. When we eventually get round to the bathroom in this house we shall be having another.
Not really thought about it for the kitchen though. We were thinking along the lines of vinyl which looks like tiles IYKWIM it would need to be practical with having two dogs.

SD