Replacing Bathroom Floor: Ceramic Tiles to Vinyl Tiles

Recently the time came for us to either repair or replace the ceramic tiles on our bathroom floor. Our home's previous owners had installed ceramic tile on the bathroom floor, and while we like it, age has led to some of the ceramic tiles being broken and the grout is breaking apart. So the choice we had to make for our bathroom floor, was to repair those broken tiles and regrout the places where tiles were loosened or replace the entire floor covering with something different.

To repair the broken ceramic tiles on our bathroom floor required finding more of the same tiles(keep in mind this floor was put in over 20 years ago) and matching the grout color as well.

To replace the ceramic tile floor in this bathroom with something different presented other options. More ceramic tile? Vinyl covering? Vinyl tiles?

To make our decision on what path to take in redoing our bathroom floor, we had to consider several factors. Since we were doing this bathroom floor project ourselves, the level of difficulty and expertise needed was one factor to consider. Another factor was, of course, expense. How much money were we willing and able to put into this bathroom floor? Weighing all of our options and factors, we decided to replace the bathroom ceramic tile completely; to take up the existing ceramic tile and replace it with vinyl tile flooring.

Vinyl tile flooring for the bathroom was both the least expensive option we considered ,and apparently the easiest. It is not the bathroom flooring option with the longest-lasting rate, but we were looking for pleasing to look at, functional, cheap and fast at the time of this bathroom floor project.

The vinyl tile flooring option having been decided upon, we first set out to choose which vinyl tiles we liked the best. Amazingly, finding and agreeing on the style/look of the vinyl tiles for our bathroom floor did not take us long at all. Again, this flooring option is not the best rated for long term durability, but for a cheap, attractive bathroom floor it works.