Vinyl plank has taken over a lot of the house, and we install plenty of it. But in a bathroom, a laundry room, a mudroom, or a busy kitchen, tile is still the floor that wins. It doesn’t care about water. It doesn’t scratch. It doesn’t fade. Done right, a tile floor will outlast everything else in the room, including the cabinets.
The catch is “done right.” Tile is the least forgiving floor there is. If the subfloor flexes, the grout cracks. If the surface isn’t flat, you get lippage, those raised edges you catch your toe on. If the thinset isn’t spread properly, tiles sound hollow and eventually break loose. Ramsey Contracting installs tile the slow, careful way, because the fast way doesn’t hold up.