Bathroom Floor Tiles - Cold?

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We are looking to change our upstairs bathroom. My wife is wanting a tiled floor but I am worried it will be cold under foot. She insists that heat from downstairs will rise and whilst the floor won't be warm it won't be unpleasantly cold either.

I know we can look at underfloor heating but that is likely to push us over budget. Do I push hard for that and say stuff the costs or is it an unnecessary luxury?

Any experiences of upstairs tiled floors please?
 
Lord Tyrion said:
We are looking to change our upstairs bathroom. My wife is wanting a tiled floor but I am worried it will be cold under foot. She insists that heat from downstairs will rise and whilst the floor won't be warm it won't be unpleasantly cold either.

I know we can look at underfloor heating but that is likely to push us over budget. Do I push hard for that and say stuff the costs or is it an unnecessary luxury?

Any experiences of upstairs tiled floors please?
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We have tiled floors upstairs and dont find it cold on the feet at all. I shouldnt think that you would need U/H upstairs but we do have tile over timber flooring not concrete.
 
Just put bath mats down, that’s what we do. The tiles are not that cold anyway, well not on the south coast the’re not.
 
We're an upper villa conversion and have the same flooring in kitchen and bathroom - U/F heating in bathroom but not in kitchen. Kitchen floor isn't especially cold, certainly tolerable, but bathroom is very nice in comparison.
 
Howdens, as well as others, [I suspect] do some excellent tile effect laminate flooring... That's the route we went as our handyman advised tiling upstairs, on wood flooring, can be 'problematical'...
 
amtico a much warmer option than tiles and can be sourced at reasonable prices if you shop around. put it in the kitchen and bathrooms in our current house
 
Stick an electric underfloor heating mat down. problem solved.

unless you've got a massive bathroom id estimate it to cost 500max
 
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Stuart_C said:
Stick an electric underfloor heating mat down. problem solved.

unless you've got a massive bathroom id estimate it to cost 500max
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I would recommend this as well, I put a electric underfloor heating mat in our porch under tiles, easy to install and inexpensive to run.
 
My Mum has under tile heating in one of the bathrooms and has only ever turned it on once..!
The In-laws have tiled floors and I don't find them cold...
 
My main concern about tiled floors in bathrooms is that they are not nonslip. My choice for a bathroom would always be a safe surface on which you are not like to slip when the floor gets wet eg Altro marine flooring.
 
I'm I too late????? I hope not. We had our bathroom done a few years ago and I wanted those heated tiles, would it be worth it? We debated the pros and cons and went will just tiles. I cannot stress how WRONG this decision was. If you're doing tiles in the bathroom put HEATED ones in.

You have been warned. Do it once, do it right!
 
Lord Tyrion said:
The floor tiles we would get are textured, not smooth or slippery. They would be as safe as most other options.
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I would give them a proper test before fitting.

I have been in lots of sporting facilities with tiled floors and I have never felt safe on a single one that has tiled floors. Our golf club showers, my wet room at home and my kitchen is floored with Altro marine and it is perfectly suited to the purpose.
 
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