Some interesting reading: MATCHING INDOOR AND OUTDOOR FLOORING Choosing your indoor flooring to match that of the outside area will visually expand your home and allow you to create a truly open living space that will capture the natural freedom of the outdoors. There are plenty of flooring options that are suitable for use indoors and outdoors and will allow you to create a continuous transition between your indoor and outdoor areas.

Few things 1. Still not enough space in the store for a bathrub. 2. I will loose the storage space, storage is very important with growing kids, this way i will have a nice big store room to store. 3. Cost and risk - to run drain i need to cut a lot of concrete and you dont know if there are beams underneath, cutting the concrete slab all the way to store is like cutting the the house by half. There is same risk involved when i remove that single brick wall for the new bathroom,. but i am planning to do another wall first then remove this. 4. Upstairs bathroom is big enough to accommodate all - its a 2030 x 3600 in size 5. The hot and cold water coming behind the wall(bedroom1) where i put the new bathrooms, so just need to drill it through the brick. I know either way i have to cut a lot, one is to cut the concrete slab, other is to remove a brick wall. I thought about putting one outside, but then i have to involve a surveyor, council etc. to much time consuming that way.

"I seem to find pros and cons on everything I've looked at" I know what you mean. Have you used the search function here for previous discussions about various materials? I've seen a few over the years, including a very long-running one about a particular brand of vinyl, although that might have been on the original US site before they created a separate Australian site. I remember complaints about scratching/marking and about movement/lifting. I suppose as with other things it's a matter of the product itself and the quality of installation.

Hi I have carpet in a room and want to rip it up to put parquetry oak flooring but underneath is concrete slab.. Am i able to just put glue down or must i put a lyer of ply then underlay and nail. what alternative ideas other then swapping to a engineered flooring or wood tile look floor. Kind regards Rob