Does Your Toronto Home Have Ugly Ceramic Tile On The Floor?

By Thomas Cook • April 26th, 2009

For most of the years I’ve been helping sellers get their home ready for sale, or when showing houses to buyers, when it came to coming up with an easy solution to hiding or replacing ugly ceramic floor tile, there wasn’t an easy solution.

Most people either lived with that ceramic tile pattern (even though they hated it) or they went to the expense of spending a few or several thousand dollars to rip it out and replace it with something more pleasing to the eye.

Now, thanks to one of our home staging contacts Prep N’ Sell, we’ve discovered that there’s a terrific, reasonably inexpensive solution to getting rid of the ugly tile.

The product is called GerFlor and the major benefit is that it can be laid right on top of existing ceramic floors. This cuts the installation and labour costs dramatically. The material is damp proof and does not require leveling. The thickness of the GerFlor material give the home owner sound and heat insulation and comes with a 10-year guarantee.

At one of my recent listings the kitchen floor (see below on the left) was pretty hideous. When we were staging the home for sale, the Prep N’ Sell team installed the new Gerflor in a Bella Natural pattern in the kitchen and front foyer. You can see the amazing difference in the photos below.

Now the home has a more contemporary look rather than a 70′s flooring style.

GerFlor comes in a variety of styles and colours… I’ve shown just a few of them below.

For a more complete list of the colours/patterns available and product information, CLICK HERE.

If you’re planning on selling your home, start getting ready several weeks or months ahead of time. Many of our clients have found that having me do a Room-By-Room Review well ahead of time has saved them valuable time and money.

I’ve suggested several inexpensive cosmetic repairs that they hadn’t thought of AND I’ve told them not to do some fix-ups that they were planning on doing thereby saving them in some cases thousands of dollars in costs which would not have been recouped on the sale.

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