I’ve got a 3/1/1 I’m rehabbing and the kitchen just has roll vinyl and I’m trying to resell it for $125,000. The kitchen and bath aren’t huge and I want to do tile in them both. I usually pay someone to do tile work but I saw this stuff at Menards the other day and just thought I’d try it once. It was about $5/sq foot + the $60 bucket of grout that looked to be able to do a few hundred square feet. It seems easy enough, just snap together the tile and use a trowel to put prefabed grout in…but then again just seeing it on the shelf was as far as I got with it.
Looks to me that it is just as much work to install as regular tile. The snap system saves you the time to insert spacers and mortar in place. They will still need a solid sub floor to install on and you’ll still have to cut the with a wet saw unless the room is all really straight shots. Unless they are about $1.00 a sq. ft. I would just go with regular tile. If you can do these you can do tile.
If your not sure about installing tile there are laminates that look like tile and are floating and easy to install. You should use a table saw but I use a circular saw to make the final rips
That vinyl strip flooring with the sticky snap together edges comes in a tile pattern as well as the wood one. I think it is called Allure. At any rate, Home Depot carries it and if you ask for the vinyl strip flooring with the stick together edges, they will show you where it is.
I haven’t seen the tile pattern in a house, but the wood looks better than laminate.
In that price range, if you are selling, you could actually use laminate in the kitchen and bath. Some of it is pretty good about being water proof— not tenant level water proof, but good for someone who takes care of their house.