Question:
Would it be ok to install a Mannington wood plank floor in a bathroom? The shower will be used on 4X month. I am worried about small children that miss the toilet and pee on the floor. Will the odor seep in to the wood?
Answer:
Dear Sarina
Please reconsider this. Any solid wood or even the laminated wood in such a wet area is courting disaster. I’ve had to resand such floor in main floor powder rooms (no shower there), and after only just a few years the wood on either side of the toilet was rotten and smelly, from just what you said, pee. Also there is a great potential for sweating pipes (during the summer), to add so much moisture to the wood, that it will swell up and push against a wall or pipe or toilet and create another disaster. I’ve had to repair a floor that had swollen so much that the door wouldn’t open. We had to take it off the hinges. So in short no, it wouldn’t be OK.