Hello, All– So I’m starting into a laundry room renovation here soon. My client on this project is a professional quiltmaker who dyes her own fabrics, so we want to make an existing laundry more user-friendly. She’s quite meticulous and has already been dying fabrics in the space but has yet to stain the carpeting currently on the floor. Obviously she’d like a much more stain-resistant flooring option anyway, but I’m a little in the dark about viable solutions. If we went with ceramic tile, how effective and useable are epoxy grouts? I’m nearly certain there is no combination of traditional grout and sealer that would repel dye stains long-term. It sounds as though linoleum would be problematic as well in terms of stain-repellance. We did look at some very rugged 16″ x 16″ or 18″ x 18″ vinyl/composite tiles that I believe glue down. Or does anyone have a source for some heavy sheet vinyl that isn’t trying to mimic a tile pattern? Thanks for the input.
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It seems to me that true linoleum would be about as good as you can do. Seal it after installation. The other obvious option is an epoxy food prep area floor coating.
concrete
Yeah, concrete by itself isn't all that great, but sealed with an epoxy floor coating it should do well.
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Maybe black vinyl tile?
Maybe something weird like Hardie Backer sealed with many coats of polyurethane?