Revamp your bathroom with vinyl coverings

When homeown­ers want to mod­ern­ize their bath­rooms, they are often afraid of the work involved. Knock­ing out the old tiles, choos­ing new ones and hav­ing them installed – these activ­it­ies not only cost time but also cause a lot of dust and noise. But there is a high-qual­ity altern­at­ive: mod­ern vinyl cov­er­ings. They are simply installed on top of the exist­ing wall and floor tiles. The good news: this is now also pos­sible in the shower.

In view of the increas­ingly high con­struc­tion costs, many poten­tial real estate buy­ers rather choose to pur­chase an exist­ing build­ing, espe­cially since sub­stan­tial price reduc­tions are cur­rently being offered for houses that have not under­gone energy renov­a­tion. In most cases, how­ever, the aging bath­room needs to be mod­ern­ized. But even those homeown­ers who installed a new bath­room some time ago will have to think about new wall and floor cov­er­ings at some point. A major obstacle to tack­ling bath­room renov­a­tion is not only the cost but also the incon­veni­ence involved. Noise and dust nuis­ance are unavoid­able when hav­ing new tiles or some­times also par­quet installed.

What many people don’t know: High-qual­ity vinyl floor­ing can make bath­room renov­a­tion faster, quieter and clean­er. Mod­ern vinyl cov­er­ings – also known as design floor­ing or LVTs (short for Lux­ury Vinyl Tiles) – are the suc­cessors to the former PVC sheets and tiles. These had fallen into dis­rep­ute because they con­tained harm­ful plas­ti­cizers such as phthal­ates. But the new products have noth­ing in com­mon with these earli­er mater­i­als.

The new “design floor­ing” or LVTs truly live up to their name because they offer homeown­ers a mul­ti­tude of design options. Depend­ing on indi­vidu­al pref­er­ences, the tiles are avail­able with a real­ist­ic wood, nat­ur­al stone or tile look, com­bined with the cor­res­pond­ing sur­face feel and a wide range of dif­fer­ent col­or and grain vari­ations. Bey­ond their attract­ive appear­ance, LVTs offer many tech­nic­al and prac­tic­al advant­ages. The elast­ic mater­i­al is light­weight and handy, mak­ing it easy to install. The mater­i­al is also hard-wear­ing, dur­able and – very import­ant in bath­rooms – insens­it­ive to mois­ture. Anoth­er plus: Due to their low install­a­tion height, vinyl cov­er­ings take up little space.

Thanks to these prop­er­ties and in par­tic­u­lar their mois­ture res­ist­ance, lux­ury vinyl tiles can now also be installed in the shower. Without any prob­lems – both on walls and floors. This provides addi­tion­al flex­ib­il­ity. The old shower tray is removed for this pur­pose so that wall and floor can be covered with the same mater­i­al. This not only looks good, but also offers anoth­er bene­fit. The new level-access shower elim­in­ates all trip haz­ards. Of course, it is also pos­sible to choose dif­fer­ent decors: one for the wall and one for the shower floor.