Cork floor tiles anyone?

[lainey lou]

Has anyone used these? Any thoughts? Thinking of using them in my kitchen which is getting ripped out as I speak!

[Flummery]

We had them YEARS ago in the bathroom. Comfy to walk on though they need several coats of poly- thingie varnish.

[shirlthegirl43]

There were some in our kitchen - heck of a job to remove them when we re-did it. We put down heavy vinyl in a 'slate' effect as I wanted slate floors but felt that wasn't particularly suitable for a kitchen (kids and hubby drop loads of plates etc). My folks had cork tiles in the bathroom, like Flummery says, you need to make sure they are well sealed or they go yukky

[bluemoon]

We had them years ago too. Sadly, the old saying about toast landing butter-side down is true, and once they have a grease spot it's impossible to remove.

[Nicos]

Can you still get them??
I was looking round for some to make a notice board and B&Q and Topps Tiles told me they hadn't had them for years.
I gave up in the end

[Winged one]

We got unsealed ones in the bathroom in our first house - which was a new build so dust everywhere and we had to seal them ourselves (broke at the time too). Worked ok though.

For our current house, which also needed a new bathroom, we got them again but this time got pre-sealed ones so we didn't have to seal them ourselves. Well, we always keep meaning to seal them so that the edges will be sealed, but we're in the house six years since last month, and the bathroom is almost 6 years old (got it done as the fisrt priority that summer), but we still haven't actually sealed these tiles. They are like new though (but we have been lucky in not flooding the floor yet either).

They still look like new, but our bathroom would have a lot less traffic than a kitchen. (That thought should probably be reversed....).

I'ds certainly use them again.

[Rhona]

We put some in our bathroom about 2 years ago and have already replaced them (about two weeks ago). Despite good job laying them and coats of varnish etc. They always looked a bit grimy, even when they were clean, and never really looked that great. I wouldn't go for them again and prefer the stone-look tiles we have now - million times better, I think! B&Q do the fake-slate ones which I think look pretty good, and have a good offer (how SAD am I?) on real stone ones that isn't that well advertised!

[lainey lou]

Can you still get them??
I was looking round for some to make a notice board and B&Q and Topps Tiles told me they hadn't had them for years.
I gave up in the end

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I,m getting some from here to make a big pin board effort to pin all the kids painting etc up and save my new units.

[Nicos]

Thanks LL

[HeyWayne]

Don't do it!! Nightmare to get off when you change your mind.