Bed area flooring

While we were looking a tiles for the bathroom we also had in mind to look for tiles for the bed area. The bathroom was a must for ceramics, if only just for waterproofing, but the bed area was not really an open book and I'd thought about a few options other than tiles …… just polish the concrete, stone slabs and faux wood. As far as faux wood finishes, I'd seen different types and styles in the shops but hadn't really looked into it. Then I discovered click laminate planks, the top quality ones come with a polyurethane layer on top, so super durable, and a semi soft rubber coating on the bottom that deadens the sound and takes up inconsistencies in the floor. Would it, could it, take up the inconsistencies in my floor though, I bought one pack to play with. The per m2 price was a concern initially too, I worked it out at double the price of tiles (with the cement and grout too). Playing the next day I found out how awesome this stuff is, it looked ace, it's installed really easily by one person, it cuts so cleanly and easily and it conforms to an uneven floor really well. I also found out on day two of installation that you can heat it up and it then conforms to curves and hollows in the surface too!

Nearly finished, we have to buy one more pack to complete things.

Checking out how mosaics will look?

DISASTER UPDATE

I'm sure you'll agree on how it looked, pretty cool huh! So moving on to a few days before the 'move-in date' we start doing a deep clean. Ani starts under the bed, accessing the floor through the pull up bed head. She dislodges one of the small floor panels near the wall, it's wet underneath it and she asks me to take a look……..aaaaaah! Literally five minutes later we've taken up all the floor and the floor is literally soaked. Even though the concrete floor slab has a moisture membrane, the surface is literally soaking in water! So lesson learnt and we aired the place to let the floor breath a few extra days before the move-in and our kitchen has a new faux wood floor :) We plan to just wait until the next rainy season just to see if the floor gets damp before we do anything else with it and also will have another excavator on site before then too to enlarge our existing French drain or make another one slightly uphill from the existing one. The excavator is coming in to deepen and straighten the stream bed as we've had a few scary flash floods coming down it and it turns towards the house slightly!