have been trying to price up flooring, but STILL cant decide what flooring to go with. only thing i know is tiles are out coz i cant stand trying to keep grout clean.
Hey Garden, if you get porcelain (natural or polished) you don't have a huge area of grout to clean. This is becos they can be butted straight up to each other with the absolute minimum of grout line possible. This is how we are getting our's laid and it looks really good as we've seen it done in displays.
I'm not a fan of grout either cos we had white grout in a rental with terracotta tiles! and I was down scrubbing it with jif before every inspection as I had two dogs and teenagers...!
Also tiles are great for solar passive- they are the best thermal mass, which is why we are laying them in our north facing living room areas...