I am thoroughly impressed with the Westco flooring that my husband and I spent laying on Saturday afternoon in our bathroom.
It was relatively inexpensive. £5.29 for a pack of six tiles in homebase. We only needed four packs and as the dozy homebase cashier couldn't count to four we got ours at the brilliant price of£15.87! We chose a fetching marble effect blue tile.
It was easy to cut - it said use a stanley knife but our sharp kitchen scissors seemed to do the trick. A lot safer to use as my husband has had battles with stanley knives and lost in the past... but that's a different story!
It was a little tricky to work out the jagged edges around the skirting near the door and the nightmare curve around the bottom of the loo, but a lager later and a spare tile or too in the bin and the job was complete.
The instructions said to use PVA to prime the floor.. but as every good DIYer knows it's best to not take instructions too much to heart. We found we didn't need any PVA. The self adhesive on the back of the tiles gripped like superglue to the dodgy ceramic tiles we found hidden under the grubby carpet we ripped up in order to do the floor in the first place.
We even found that the paper you rip off the back of the tiles to reveal the sticky backs was useful for drawing templates for akward corners.
Now I cannot stop myself looking at our gorgeous floor. It looks very professional (if I do say so myself) and you cannot even tell that it is tiles - it looks like a roll of lino. I am glad it was tiles though with a sheet of lino one little mistake and you have wasted the lot.
I have had a bath and not gone "arse over tit". Alhough we do have a nice fluffy mat in matching blue to drip on...
All in all a brilliant buy that we would definitely use again.
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