Anyone have a slate kitchen floor?

How do you like it? Any absolute pros or cons for someone considering slate in the kitchen...? thanks in advance!

 

hrm, nope, but i'd think it'd be cold on your feet and easily break things that might drop on it.

 

When we get our kitchen floor redone because of the completly unprofessional and crappy job the builders did, we are considering other materials. I also would be interested in people who currently have stone/slate kitchen floors and what they think about them.

 

Go see Jim Mitchell at ProSource 21586 Atlantic Blvd, Suite 100 Dulles VA 20166 703-673-4100. Broadlands residents get a great discount, the selection is fabulous and the personal are very knowledgable about the pros and cons of various materials.

Stone looks great and is easy to keep clean but if you spend a lot of time in the kitchen it's tough on your back and it is cold. You can also count on just about anything breakable that you drop on it will break...in many pieces

 

We had it in our townhouse and I didn't like it for all the reasons mentioned above and also because the grout can stain if you are not careful.

 

GREAT referral!!! thank you so much. i was concerned about breakage and the stone being hard on the back. The Man wants to compare every flooring known to man before pulling the trigger to get rid of our ugly linoleum.

we have stones inset in our kitchen chairs and want to match one of them, and there are some nice ceramics that i liked too...

 

We had travertine installed in our kitchen a couple of years ago. It can be cold in the winter but I don't think it's much colder than ceramic tile. Normal household cleaners cannot be used and you have to use a cleaner made specifically for stone. Some stone can easily stain so must seal it every year or two.

If you do go with natural stone, I recommend that you find someone who frequently installs it. Have them verify that the engineered joists that are under the floor you are tiling can support the added weight of stone. Most houses have subflooring with a substantial amount of flex that can cause stone tiles to crack and break over time. Make sure they use an underlayment made for stone. Do a Google search for Ditra.

We used Granitech in Lorton to install our flooring and are very pleased with the result.

 

Good information there db103. People may forget the importance of what lays under the stone.

 

Ditra is da bomb =)