Cohousing-L Mailing List: Re: Kitchen Flooring

[Julie Gallagher (jgall63]

Another question about ceramic tile: at Cantine's Island we need to replace
a 20-year old kitchen floor, but ceramic tile has been rejected as an
option solely because of safety. We often have water on the floor because
of our industrial dishwasher (loading wet dishes on racks on a counter and
then carrying the wet racks to the dishwasher) and there are concerns that
wet tile is slippery and a fall hazard. What is Arboretum's experience with
this?

We have also rejected marmoleum, cork and hardwood due to water often being
on the floor, and rejected vinyl due to its environmentally unfriendly
manufacturing process. Which leaves .... nothing? We're stymied at this
point.

Julie Gallagher
Cantine's Island Cohousing
Saugerties, NY

On Tue, Feb 26, 2019 at 9:51 AM Sharon Villines via Cohousing-L <
cohousing-l [at] cohousing.org> wrote:

> > On Feb 25, 2019, at 6:28 PM, Janet Murphy <janetmusicrn [at] gmail.com>
> wrote:
> >
> > Arboretum Cohousing has large ceramic tiles in our Commons kitchen. They
> > aren't as soft as cork or wood or marmoleum, but in 10 years we have
> never
> > had to wax or refinish them. They should have a lifetime of 50 years.
>
> Do  you have problems with breaking dishes from being dropped?
>
> Sharon
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> Takoma Village Cohousing, Washington DC
> http://www.takomavillage.org
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