Re: Kitchen flooring material: ?anyone used ceramic tile?
From: Bob Leigh (bobleightwomeeps.com)
Date: Sun, 11 Mar 2018 13:53:38 -0700 (PDT)
We used quarry tiles in our common house kitchen.  It's held up well for 16
years, grout and tile both.  But it's true that any plates of glasses
dropped on it are sure to break.  We have not encountered any knives that
shattered.

Bob Leigh
Cornerstone Village Cohousing
Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA


On Sun, Mar 11, 2018 at 3:15 PM Ruth J Hirsch <heidinys [at] earthlink.net>
wrote:

> Thank you very much, Dick.  Already helpful!
> This is for the CommonHouse kitchen
> Over wooden sub floor.
>
> ruth
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> On Mar 11, 2018, at 2:44 PM, Dick Margulis <dick [at] dmargulis.com> wrote:
>
> On 3/11/2018 2:22 PM, Ruth J Hirsch wrote:
> > Hi,
> > We are looking at kitchen flooring material.
> > Complicated decision.
> > Someone has suggested ceramic.  Has anyone actually had experience with
> this?
> > Concerns include:  breakage of items dropped and how does the grout wear?
> > Appreciate your input
>
> Does the question concern home kitchen or common house kitchen? The
> concerns are similar but not identical.
>
> The first issue is what's the subfloor constructed of? If this is a
> suspended wooden floor (over a basement or crawl space, in other words),
> then there is some give to the floor, and in a home kitchen the wear and
> tear on knees might not be a major issue. If the tile is to be laid on a
> concrete slab, though, and if this is to be in the common house, where meal
> prep can take a few hours, I can tell you from personal experience that
> some people will experience significant knee pain over time. Maybe other
> joints and spine, too. (I worked for several years in a commercial bakery
> that had a ceramic tile floor over a concrete slab. Yeah, there's a
> difference between two hours of meal prep and fifty hours a week of heavy
> lifting, so it's a matter of degree, I guess.)
>
> Breakage is definitely a problem. This applies not just to glassware and
> china but also to knives (and you do not want steel shards flying around
> any more than you want glass shards flying around).
>
> Grout can be problematic. If the floor is not sloped to a floor drain,
> standing water (from spills or from mopping) can erode and lift grout if
> there are any imperfections. Grout can be dug out and repaired when that
> happens, but if the kitchen is in daily use, there may not be enough time
> for the patch to fully cure, and the cycle will continue.
>
> Dick Margulis
> Rocky Corner cohousing
> Bethany CT
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> PS:  I have an intermittent e-mail glitch.  If you write and do not hear
> back from me shortly, please call me or please re-send.  Thank you,  Ruth
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