Shopping now vs. Shopping later
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walkitoutLook, it’s money AND time! And none of it now. Hilarious, considering the previous post, at least to me.
Anyway, I’ve been having some difficulty in the evenings, where I’m not quite ready to go to bed, and I’m also not interested in taking on anything that requires significant effort or has to be done to some particular quality standard. For a while there, I was shopping online, but honestly, I’ve bought plenty of stuff recently, a lot of it Ahsoka Tano themed for the next trip to WDW. I’m about done with all that, and I have all the accessories for the tablet I’m playing with. So instead, I figure I’ll do some Future Shopping, aka, house planning.
Today in house planning: I saw on the Control Estimate that the bathrooms have tile. No tile! Ugh. I hate tile. It is hard. It is cold. I do NOT want radiant heating under tile because when it breaks, you can’t really fix it. So you wind up putting mats and rugs down and those are a whole other awful. Ugh. Also, no vinyl, that shit stinks and takes forever to finish off-gassing. I’ve actually had two bathrooms renovated, so you would think I would have an answer to this question and over dinner, R. and I discussed those answers, which were: bamboo and marmoleum.
I had already done the kitchen in marmoleum (sheet, battleship grey, unwaxed), because it’s easy to stand on, and as long as you don’t do the kind of mopping that involves a layer of water on it (I almost never mop, no way in hell am I ever going to do that kind of mopping), and you don’t let things stab into it, it’s pretty eternal. Did I mention it was easy to stand on? I _think_ that one of the bathrooms has the exact same flooring, but I’m asking the person who lives there now to find out if that’s correct and what condition it is in, now that 20 years have gone by. The other bathroom — more like 18 years ago on this one — has bamboo flooring. I’m waiting to find out about condition on that one as well. Forbo / Marmoleum has a tile and/or plank product now that purports to be substantially more waterproof than in the past. They continue to be a low-VOC product, which was also part of the appeal Back in the Day.
What I’m a little uncertain about is whether that thing will survive a zero entry shower context, and I have no idea how one would handle the transition from the tile that would be within and some distance outside the shower, to the rest of the bathroom. Hmmm.
Anyway, I’ve been having some difficulty in the evenings, where I’m not quite ready to go to bed, and I’m also not interested in taking on anything that requires significant effort or has to be done to some particular quality standard. For a while there, I was shopping online, but honestly, I’ve bought plenty of stuff recently, a lot of it Ahsoka Tano themed for the next trip to WDW. I’m about done with all that, and I have all the accessories for the tablet I’m playing with. So instead, I figure I’ll do some Future Shopping, aka, house planning.
Today in house planning: I saw on the Control Estimate that the bathrooms have tile. No tile! Ugh. I hate tile. It is hard. It is cold. I do NOT want radiant heating under tile because when it breaks, you can’t really fix it. So you wind up putting mats and rugs down and those are a whole other awful. Ugh. Also, no vinyl, that shit stinks and takes forever to finish off-gassing. I’ve actually had two bathrooms renovated, so you would think I would have an answer to this question and over dinner, R. and I discussed those answers, which were: bamboo and marmoleum.
I had already done the kitchen in marmoleum (sheet, battleship grey, unwaxed), because it’s easy to stand on, and as long as you don’t do the kind of mopping that involves a layer of water on it (I almost never mop, no way in hell am I ever going to do that kind of mopping), and you don’t let things stab into it, it’s pretty eternal. Did I mention it was easy to stand on? I _think_ that one of the bathrooms has the exact same flooring, but I’m asking the person who lives there now to find out if that’s correct and what condition it is in, now that 20 years have gone by. The other bathroom — more like 18 years ago on this one — has bamboo flooring. I’m waiting to find out about condition on that one as well. Forbo / Marmoleum has a tile and/or plank product now that purports to be substantially more waterproof than in the past. They continue to be a low-VOC product, which was also part of the appeal Back in the Day.
What I’m a little uncertain about is whether that thing will survive a zero entry shower context, and I have no idea how one would handle the transition from the tile that would be within and some distance outside the shower, to the rest of the bathroom. Hmmm.
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Date: 2024-02-09 02:23 am (UTC)yes, I think it is the seams that are the concern
Date: 2024-02-09 02:51 am (UTC)It really only matters for 2 bathrooms. For the bathrooms in the basement, we’re probably going to do zero entry showers, but in one case, it is adjacent to the pool and just assumed to be wet. In another case, probably not, but for both we’ll probably have some decorative and antislip coating on the concrete. For the bathrooms that are just toilet and sink (2) we’ll do the marmoleum no worries. And for a bathroom with a shower, we can do marmoleum with no worry if it is enclosed with a curb (either tile or an acrylic drop in installation). The marmoleum plus zero entry, however, is a big question mark.
Re: yes, I think it is the seams that are the concern
Date: 2024-02-09 06:03 am (UTC)Baseboard options
Date: 2024-02-09 02:11 pm (UTC)