Cohousing-L Mailing List: Re: Kitchen flooring material: ?anyone used ceramic tile?

[Dick Margulis (dick]

Our common house (construction begins soon!!!) is going to be slab on 
grade. Further, our local health department is treating the common house 
as a food service establishment (we gave up arguing about it), and the 
kitchen will be licensed and inspected. (We'll also have a sufficient 
number of members with ServSafe certificates to meet that requirement.)

As I've been the point person on design and equipment for the kitchen, 
working with a commercial kitchen designer, my assumption has been that 
we'll use mats at all the work stations, as a minimum, and maybe for all 
the walkways too, depending on cost. I'm talking about the thick black 
mats (like this: 
http://www.floormatcompany.com/images_item/Flooring/Dura_Chef_1_2/Dura_Chef_1_2_Action_Shot_3_Large.jpg) 
that get rolled up, dragged outside, and hosed down, followed by the 
sealed concrete floor being mopped.

Maybe there's a better or more economical solution, and I'm still open 
to suggestions. But whatever it is has to be easy on the feet and knees.