Flooring for a Florida Room

Q: I live in northwestern PA. We have a Florida room which is not heated.
Right now we have carpeting, but it fades so badly I would like to use a different flooring. Would cork tiles or the ceramic tile laminate work?
Thank you
Karen
A: Any time you are looking into wood flooring for an area which is unheated, its generally a bad idea. Wood flooring performs best when in an environment where the temperature and humidity remain roughly the same throughout the year.
Your best bet for your Florida/Sun room would be to use something like stone, tile, vinyl or linoleum. These are all far better suited to taking the temperature shifts that would occur in your room from season to season since it is not climate controlled.
Now if you really want a wood floor, and not something like a wood appearing vinyl floor, there is a potential alternative. You could use an electric radiant heat system to keep the floor at a constant temperature, but even with this the sun exposure would be bad for most wood floors. A laminate floor should be ok when it comes to fading as nearly all of them have a warranty against fading.
In the end here, a wood floor such as cork or laminate is not really meant to take the climate shifts an unheated sun room would run into in PA, but it could be done with proper additions, but is not the best choice.