Options Basement Floor

This is the least expensive finishing option for basement floors and is ideal for casual spaces.

Options basement floor.

There are many basement flooring options but you can also dress up the standard concrete basement floor. So many are unpleasantly surprised with costs that are more expensive than they were planning to spend. That leaves you a lot of basement flooring options such as ceramic tile engineered wood rubber and laminate flooring made with a moisture resistant plywood core. Vinyl flooring also known as resilient flooring ranks with concrete and ceramic tile as one of the better basement flooring options vinyl flooring comes in both sheet or tile plank form and there is a subtle difference.

But this direct installation will result in a floor that s cold underfoot. A concrete basement slab is porous and prone to moisture and water vapor migrating up through the slab. Sheet vinyl flooring creates a nearly seamless water impervious surface on your basement floor always a good thing where moisture might be involved. Furthermore most people want to spend less money basement and they ironically find that most flooring choices in the basement cost more money due to limited options on a concrete floor and floor prep.

While the flooring itself. Many basement flooring materials like paint epoxy tile and rubber flooring for example can go down directly over the basement s original poured concrete floor as long as the concrete is in good condition. If your concrete floor is smooth dry and free of imperfections consider playing it up with paint. But that doesn t mean basements are trouble free.