Vinyl in floor-level shower

So if it was a particular risk of peeing, I would tend towards tiles/natural stone. Everything with grout has grout, and pee doesn't need wide grout to disappear. Otherwise, everyone who has had a dog has had such accidents at some point, and I see no problem with that. I never had a cat, and despite all my love for animals, I wouldn't let a pet "dictate" a beautiful floor in the new house. We had a boxer for many years on solid pine floorboards without any problems. Of course, you see his claws because he was constantly running around, but that doesn't matter technically or visually on a rustic floor.

Air does not emit heat through radiation. Air warms (transfers heat to a body) through convection.

I am happy to criticize you as well, but with technical nitpicking: Air transfers heat convectively, but it can only emit or absorb heat through conduction and absorption of thermal radiation by the greenhouse gases. Furthermore, the greenhouse gases in the air actually do emit heat. #endofnitpicking

My wife is very against parquet and wants click vinyl because of the cats.

Exactly my kind of humor. What if you overlook a pee spot on a not completely perfect seam, then?

Well, it's clear that joints aren't pee-proof, but I would still have expected that you have much more time here to save it :D

By the way, you guys are to blame for reconsidering vinyl.

We can probably all live with the blame.

At least I was able to convince my wife to tile the bathroom.

Good decision! There are such beautiful tiles.. though we have a two-meter-long tiled walk-in shower, I wouldn’t mind having a conventional shower tray by now.

But just wait for @nordanney, he is more the parquet expert here.

No, that’s still

We chose our bamboo parquet for cost reasons. So, it was supposed to be a wooden floor, and it didn’t matter to us that bamboo is not technically wood, since visually it is a wooden floor. The bamboo parquet is very hard. Our dog has not left any marks yet. At the time we built, it was half the price of comparable parquet. But of course it’s a matter of taste whether you want that floor over the entire area. In the meantime, I have been annoyed by the lacquered surface because everywhere it said it would be smarter to have an oiled surface. But whatever: so far (after 11 years) we haven’t had to do any treatments, even though an office chair scratches on the surface.

Well, it's clear that joints are not pee-proof, but I still would have expected that you'd have significantly more time here to still fix it :D

why is that? A joint is a joint,........