A wet room is not a room where something might spill. It is a room where water sits on the floor as a matter of course: around a tub, under a washing machine, inside the door on a rainy day. The floor has to be waterproof through its thickness, and the subfloor under it has to be protected too, because the floor is not the only thing that gets wet.
Based on: wet rooms · one room · frequent spills · water resistance, easy maintenance and durability first · a professional install.
Stone-composite core: 100% waterproof and dimensionally rock-steady.
Foamed core: warmer, quieter and softer than SPC — and thicker.
The tile-shaped sibling of SPC plank — same core, glued or floating.
Anything with a wood or fiberboard core, which means laminate, engineered wood and solid wood, and every carpet.
The full reasoning, the failure modes and the care schedule for each of these are on FlooringFAQ’s guide. This page is the decision; that one is the education.
This ranking assumed a typical version of the situation. Change the rooms, the budget, the subfloor or who is installing it and the order moves. The eight questions start with these answers filled in.
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