What should be the floor covering in the bathroom

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One of the seemingly unsolvable problems that arise when renovating a bathroom has always been and remains the problem of arranging the floor and floor covering in the room. For a concrete base, the choice of flooring options is quite large, you can use traditional tiles or even a heated floor, but what to put on a wooden floor in the bathroom, given the fact that wood and water were and remain irreconcilable opponents?


Almost any good wooden floor has a universal character, it can be laid in any residential building, be it a house or an apartment, a cottage or a guest house, except for the bathroom. Putting a simple wooden flooring in the bathroom means rotting it in a few months. Therefore, it is necessary to change the structure of the floor, for example, lay an additional layer of plastic or ceramics on a waterproof base, or use a material for the wooden floor that is not subject to the destructive effects of water.

But before you lay decorative tiles or any other type of flooring, it is worth considering some specific qualities of a wooden base:

It will be necessary to strengthen the floorboards, which sag under the weight of a person, even if you put plywood or OSB sheets on top of them. The sag may not be noticeable belgium mobile database daily use, but it becomes obvious the first time you try to lay hard tiles;
A wooden base is not the best option for a floor, in addition to the fact that it needs to be protected from rotting, the structure of the material can change dimensions even with the slightest change in humidity, not to mention the fact that wooden floors can simply arch in the humid atmosphere of a bathroom;
All of the above is a serious problem that has to be solved. For example, when arranging a bathroom in a wooden house, where there are no concrete floors, the floorboards lying on the beams are at best protected by a layer of basalt thermal insulation. In such conditions, it is not enough to put a waterproofing layer, it will be necessary to perform a full range of protective measures.
Therefore, regardless of what material is planned to be laid on a wooden base, the floor in the bathroom must be protected from water by all available means, namely:

Lay a double layer of waterproofing;
Insulate wooden parts from sources of water vapor;
Provide high-quality ventilation for the subfloor, with air intake coming from the nearest dry room.
If you simply lay a decorative coating with waterproofing, then due to the water vapor accumulating in the space around the wooden floorboards, even under the layer of waterproofing, the wood will rot and decay.