I installed the bathroom with some porcelain and it looks really cool, but as I won't live here long enough I think I am just going to install the rubber commercial stuff.

I can build an addition for about 120k that contains two "units" of 2bd/2.5ba each with lots of premium features (9.5' ceilings, acid-stained colorful concrete floors, radiant heating throughout, central air, LED lights, granite countertops, subway tile backsplash, carrara marble porcelain look-alike bathrooms, etc.)

In most houses we encounter, freeze damage in drain lines is ALMOST always confined to toilets (look for fine or major cracks in the porcelain) or traps.  

Porcelain and stainless steel tiles.

A vapor barrier would inhibit that process.Stone is not waterproof, ceramic and porcelain are.

New products are out for us tub painters that now cause a MOLECULAR bond, that is, the paint will share an electron with the porcelain itself.

The wood look porcelain is very cool and popular.

You think it's going to scratch the porcelain finish but it only scrapes off the nasty stains and makes it look great.

You can't really put a globe on those old ceramic / porcelain light fixtures that you have in the basement; I just buy an entire fixture from the big box store for less than $10 and put that in instead of the bare bulb fixture.

We are rehabbing a house for ourselves to move into.I have a question on tub material. how good is a porcelain on steel tub as opposed to a cast iron tub?