Don’t be THIS cheap, ever
The owners of the house we’re renting put peel and stick tiles in the kitchen. Some of them are placed on bare plywood while others are placed onto the linoleum that another owner put in about 50 years ago. none of thetm are sticking well and whenever guests come ofer, I have to straighten out the floor tiles and then act surprised if they happen to get caught slipping. If you’re a guest in my house & you step of a floor tile & it shifts and I look at you like that’s never happened before, don’t feel bad, I’m just playing it off. Seriously.
Anyways, I’ve been looking into flooring for the kitchen. Cork is out of the question, we’re too hard on a floor, but I love the idea that something could drop on it and not break. Except who am I kidding, it’s a rental and I’d rather break a few cheap dishes than sepdn a fortune on a floor for these crazy homeowners.
Brick is an option because there’s a huge pile of them in the backyard and the homeowner said “do whatever you want with all that crap back there”
Linoleum is an option because it’s so easy to keep clean, it’s easy to install and the alcove by the laundry room would yield a cutout that would probably work in the bathroom, too which is a plus. I don’t even want to talk about the bathroom floor. It’s horrible.
Concrete is what I plan to use when I buy my own home again, only with floor heaters installed because I heard it improves air quality and we just loved the stamped concrete floor we had at the restaurant.
Bamboo is another option, because of its low toxicity and renewability. it doesn’t cost much more than the laminate flooring we have in the living room right now, but it seems to wear better.
What do you think? What kind of flooring would you use in a rental kitchen that actually needed replacing for health and sanitation reasons. Seriously, I found mushrooms growing by the side of my fridge the other day.
