Hi, I'm ted cook with Really Cheap Floors. In today's video blog
we're going to talk about what floors are best for your bathroom.
I never thought about doing a video like this but my marketing people say this is
important! Right now we're standing here in a
carpet mart this is our retail location in Murphy, North Carolina.
We've had this location for about 25 years and I can tell you there have been
hundreds and hundreds of times that people have came into this building
and asked me, "Hey what do i want to put in my bathroom floor?"
So that's what we're going to talk about today. All right the most common bathroom
floor over time has been roll vinyl as you can
see this is a roll of vinyl here. This particular print is popular in in
bathrooms because it's a small print. Typically a bathroom is a small space
and you don't want a a big 16 or 18 inch reapeat in it. So
you'll see these small prints.
Roll vinyl is kind of practical honestly. It's
inexpensive. The new floors don't have to be glued
down they can be just loose laid or just
stapled around the edges that cuts back on floor prep a lot a lot
of bathrooms uh have a lot of floor prep involved you
know the floor is not smooth or there's a bad
board or something you've got toilets to pull out and and
frankly it's annoying so a floor that doesn't have to be glued
down has some very real advantages saves you
a lot of time and a lot of money in the in the written blog we have on
our website we go into the the complete um
timeline events when you're when you're doing a bathroom floor
you know pulling your trim up pulling your toilet and
if you want to know more about that from a labor perspective you can go check
that blog out but today we're going to talk about material
so vinyl good opportunity or a good product
it's inexpensive it's easy to install one downside is if you make a miss cut
you you gotta throw it out or or live with it
that's one of the advantages then of a product like ceramic tile
ceramic tile has been a go-to product for a number of years
the the popularity of tile is waning right now honestly
um it's expensive the labor's expensive the supplies you've got to buy mastic
you've got to buy grout all that's kind of pricey you know if
you can lay it yourself and you're doing a small area you can go to a store and
pick up a small a two or three box deal for 50 cents a
dollar you can come out okay but if you're
paying a professional you're gonna you're going to get in some pretty big
money with ceramic tile um ceramic tile is quite stylish
you see a tile like that kind of odd looking but that is uh what's in style
right now another option certainly where we made
our bones is on hardwood flooring this is an engineered floor from let's
see our antique collection
engineered floors versus a heart a solid hardwood floor
engineers are good for a bath application because of the increased
moisture when we uh when we introduce moisture to
a to an engineered floor like this we don't get the cupping that we would
get in a solid floor so with with the engineered floor you've
got any kind of species width color you want it costs a little
more than the vinyl but you're doing a small area so price
for the material really isn't going to be the issue the issue is going to be
labor if you're paying somebody do that that's
where most of your money is going to go if you can find a product that you can
do yourself you're going to save some big money okay
and that brings us to our next product lvp luxury vinyl plank
it's really hard to beat these products in a bathroom right now
they're inexpensive it's kind of hard to spend more than
two dollars for one unless you're shopping at my competitors then it's
pretty easy um you know you can go pick up a couple
boxes two three four boxes of these uh one of our
places we have small lots here we love to sell for
under a dollar so you can buy the material really cheap
most of them will come with an attached back so there's no no prep work to be
done you just snap it down so you're looking
at an afternoon you've spent a hundred dollars on
material zero money on labor that's uh that's a pretty good deal so
anyway that's just a quick rundown of the products that are used
in bathrooms today if you would like to know more about any of these products we
have product videos that go pretty far in depth uh telling
you how they're made and what their strong points and weak
points are if you have any questions please pick up the phone and give us a
call or drop us an email we'd love to help
you that that's reallycheapfloors.com
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