Browse Forums Flooring & Floor Covering 1 Apr 25, 2012 12:08 am My DH wants tiles through most of the house. 600 x 600 light beige tiles with white flecks through it. I am used to our old carpet. Will it make the house feel and look cold. We have natural white walls. What do you think. Floorboards probably would not suit as we have 2 dogs and 4. adult children Re: Are tiles cold looking and cold under foot 3Apr 25, 2012 8:50 am We have had tiles for hallways,kitchen,family room, laundry, bathrooms and that was fine....but we did have carpets in the bedroom. The Harder You Try - the Luckier You Get ! Web site http://www.anewhouse.com.au Informative, Amusing, and Opinionated Blog - Over 600 posts on all aspects of building a new house. Re: Are tiles cold looking and cold under foot 4Apr 25, 2012 10:09 am We were in our old house for 27 years and now the new one for 1 year. Both had tiles everywhere except for the bedrooms. For us it was a no brainer going tiles second time around and the only thing we regret is not going with the gloss version of our tiles. The matt version tends to show a lot of marks. Might just be our tiles though. Re: Are tiles cold looking and cold under foot 5Apr 25, 2012 11:29 am Thanks for your advice. I will try karndean. Is it worth getting floorboards. They look lovely but are they more work. What would be a hardwearing one plus a good colour. We have white wall and white kitchen. Re: Are tiles cold looking and cold under foot 6Apr 25, 2012 5:18 pm I've had tiles in our old house and went porcelain in our new. Have you considered underfloor heating? I've heard so many good stories about this. We have ducted gas and I don't notice the cold floors but then we do have room rugs where tiles are. Handover February 2011 Happy with our home Re: Are tiles cold looking and cold under foot 8Jun 11, 2012 12:41 am I have tiles, they don't look especially cold since they are a warm colour tone but they certainly are cold underfoot. Unpleasant in winter but a good thing on the relatively few scorching hot summer days in Melbourne. The house is coming up 7 years old and was a rental for most of that; the tiles have chipped, particularly in the kitchen, where people have dropped things. I can even point to one or two that I have done myself when I dropped something heavy. I'd much rather have hardwood floorboards where a lot of scratches can be sanded/polished out again and even whole boards can be removed and replaced - there is absolutely nothing that can fix the damaged tiles. The chips are obvious because they are a different colour internally compared to the top glaze and replacing one here and there isn't an option - no spares and I'm not sure they could get one up ok even if we had some spares. Yeah, not a tile fan here. Many people are very happy with their tiles though so each to their own. Land settled May '14. Building the PD Hoffman39: 5/11=site start, 13/11=slab pour, 26/11=frame complete, 10/12=roof on, 12/12=bricking started. Blog: http://jyndeira.net/blog/ Re: Are tiles cold looking and cold under foot 9Jun 22, 2012 11:31 am I think the premium quality vinyl in wood patterns (or even tiles) are great - has the advantages of tiles and replicates the beauty/look of wooden floors. From what I have gathered so far Amtico, Allure and Karndean are good brands. There may be others. We installed vinyl flooring a couple of days ago and it looks brilliant Tiles are a pain to keep clean, had them in our rental and they look awful after a few years. The grout gets discoloured eventually which is when they look truly ghastly. As regards cold under foot- you can wear slippers/thongs which is what we did. looks experimental to me, reinforced screed would be a better option or even better insulate between ground and structural slab. I would not put granite over that,… 3 4982 Depends how much direct sun it gets. Is there any shading (eaves or trees)? If the sun hits a window directly it doesn't matter too much if it's double or single… 1 12647 Hi guys, I want to butt a concrete vegetable garden bed against a concrete build up of a carport. It will be a 700mm high wall about 120mm thick and I will run a 12mm rio… 0 2588 |