5 Best Budget-friendly Flooring Options for Your Bathrooms

Bathrooms are often the smallest rooms in our homes. Yet, a bathroom renovation is one of the biggest budgets in a home renovation. Sanitary fittings, showers, cabinets, lighting – a bathroom renovation can make you break the bank. But, worry not!

Decorcera, the No.1 indoor tiles manufacturers in the UK are here to your rescue. In this guide, we list the top budget-friendly bathroom flooring materials that make your bathrooms look luxurious without breaking your budget.

The right flooring material not only keeps your bathroom clean and neat, but also makes the space feel luxurious and relaxing. While shopping for bathroom flooring material, you have to consider several factors like:

• Quality
• Ease of cleaning
• Water resistance
• Slip and grip
• Overall look and feel

We help you choose the right flooring material on a budget without compromising the aesthetics of the space. So, let’s get started.

1. Paint the Floor

If your bathroom already has a hardwood flooring, then you can paint on it. Painting bathroom floors is the easiest and cheapest option. Look for a paint colour that fits the rest of your home and gives your bathroom a refreshing look. While shopping for floor paints, look for paint solutions that are bathroom compatible like enamel paints that can withstand water, soap and other residues well.

• Repainting your bathroom floors is quick and inexpensive
• Enamel paints keep the bathroom floors shiny and protect them for years to come
• Cheaper choice when compared to other flooring options

• Painting the floors is not the most elegant or durable choice. It can make your floors look a bit tacky, if the right colours are not chosen

• Paints are not a durable solution and you may have to repaint your floors a few years down the line

2. Porcelain Tiles

Porcelain tiles are one of the best bathroom flooring choices. These tiles belong the family of ceramic tiles but are better and more elegant. They are made by firing fine clays, silica and other materials at very high temperatures. As a result, the resulting tile is highly dense, non-porous and extremely durable.

• Very low water absorption rate (less than 5%) making it the perfect choice for wet bathroom floors.

• Available in a variety of styles from faux marble to faux wood and many more. If natural stone floorings are beyond your budget, porcelain is the better budget-friendly alternative.

• Super easy to maintain, these tiles do not require any special cleaning.

• As these tiles are non-porous, they are extremely resistant to scratches and stains.

• Strong, durable and extremely long-lasting – so you don’t have to worry about repairing or replacing the floors for a long time to come.

• Porcelain tiles are dense and heavy. Hence, you need to hire professional installers to install these tiles.

3. Vinyl Flooring

Thanks to the advancements in modern printing technologies, today vinyl is available in myriad patterns, styles and colours. Tacky and cheap vinyl floors are a thing of the past. The vinyl floors available in the market today are elegant and sophisticated and look convincingly similar to other natural materials like wood, stone, leather and even fabric.

LVF (Luxury Vinyl Flooring) is a modern thicker form of vinyl tiles. It comes in the form of planks that resemble hardwood. These planks are joined together using a modified tongue and groove system. The beauty of LVF is that it gives the appearance of hardwood or natural stone floors for just a fraction of the price.

• Budget-friendly
• Numerous styles and patterns
• Resistant to water and humidity
• Easy to install
• Easy to maintain

• Vinyl is a synthetic material and hence it is not environment friendly nor is it biodegradable

• Vinyl can release harmful volatile organic compounds

• Vinyl can get damaged when heavy furniture is moved or sharp objects fall on your floor

4. Vitrified Tiles

Vitrified tiles are another popular flooring choice for bathrooms. They have a strong glossy surface that makes it a good choice for bathrooms.

• Vitrified tiles are dense, hard and extremely strong
• They are resistant to stains and scratches
• Available in a variety of colours, sizes and designs
• Choose from different types like full-body vitrified tiles, glazed tiles, double charged tiles and more
• Withstand heavy usage

• Vitrified tiles get slippery when wet. Hence, you need to treat the surface of these tiles before using it in your bathroom.

• Vitrified tiles can feel cold underfoot. Hence, they are not the best choice for bathrooms, especially in cold weather.

5. Ceramic Tiles

Ceramic tiles are made using the same materials like porcelain. But the major difference is that these tiles are fired at lower temperatures compared to porcelain.

• Available in a variety of colours, patterns, sizes and finishes
• Easy to maintain
• Light weight
• Water resistant
• Durable
• Budget-friendly

• Ceramic tiles are porous and can absorb water easily. Hence, they are prone to staining.

• Fragile and can crack easily. Hence, it is only suited for areas with low to medium traffic, like a rarely used guest bathroom.

The five flooring options mentioned here are the best budget-friendly flooring options in the UK. To know more about bathroom flooring, get in touch with Decorcera, the best indoor tiles manufacturer in the UK.