Waterproof Flooring for Kitchens and Baths in San Francisco, CA
Wet rooms need a floor chosen for failure rather than for normal use. The question is not whether it survives a spill wiped up quickly, it is what happens when a supply line lets go overnight and nobody is home.
That rules out laminate entirely and rules out most engineered wood. What is left is sheet vinyl, LVP with a genuinely waterproof core, porcelain and ceramic. Among those, sheet vinyl has no seams at all, and porcelain paired with a proper waterproof membrane underneath is the most durable.
Hardline Surface Co. specifies for wet rooms across San Francisco, CA based on the worst case rather than the normal one.
The floor covering is only half of the answer. What sits under it, the membrane or the underlayment, decides whether water that gets past the surface reaches the subfloor or is stopped.
Call Hardline Surface Co. at (888) 928-6413.
