The house we bought came with a recently renovated bathroom… however not my style. The floor is tiled but I don’t like the pattern and color. The tiles are too glossy, and the black and white is too much for the eyes. Anyways I would like to cover this floor but keep the tiles underneath. I need a floating floor that wouldn’t be too thick in order not to rise the floor too much. Laminate flooring (such as Pergo) seems perfect for my needs but I have read contradicting information on its resistance to bathroom installation. Anyone with experience?
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Nanou,
The right way to do this is probably to pull up the tile and put down your new finish floor. Assuming that you have a particularly good reason for leaving it down, you might be making more work for yourself with this approach. I think that even with laminate flooring over the tile you will most likely find you need to raise the level of the toilet. Unless you leave a tile space around the toilet, you are either going to be coming up over the bottom of it with the new flooring or leaving a large gap to account for the flare of the toilet bottom and that huge amount of putty is going to make the job look like screw up. If you don't leave this gap it means that a nasty leak will most likely go unnoticed. It also means that if you ever have a plumbing problem that requires pulling the toilet (not uncommon), you will have to take up and replace the floor around the the toilet, making a fairly inexpensive process far more expensive. I'm not a professional, so take what I say with a grain of salt, but as I understand it raising the waste line, and thus the level of the toilet, isn't all that difficult. They have extenders that attach to the existing line, allowing people to put tile in for a toilet that was originally on linoleum, and still do the installation correctly. If you are going to raise the toilet anyway, you might expand your options to whatever flooring surface you really wanted.
Amy