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Yeah lol cheers. :D

Somebody wants to take more pictures then because NZ Tiler's getting the same stuff as Ray is. If it's not the same tile, it's taken of the same slabs lol
 
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Haha it's the Calacatta marble, doesn't matter where the slab came from, it's called Calacatta for its own unique reasons, so it will ALL be similar.
 
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Hi All - thanks for the advice and suggestions. I've only been tiling since late last year so XXL format tiles are a bit daunting.

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3_fall said:
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Haha it's the Calacatta marble, doesn't matter where the slab came from, it's called Calacatta for its own unique reasons, so it will ALL be similar.
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I seeeee. So what they took a picture of is Calacatta then?!?! lol

So like this, which is the real deal, not the chinese cheap man made stuff lol

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I seeeee. So what they took a picture of is Calacatta then?!?! lol

So like this, which is the real deal, not the chinese cheap man made stuff lol

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Exactly, only thing you were slightly off in was that the Chinese make the crap stuff. Haha
There's so much more to the way they trade than I ever realised.
It's like that Hampstead staircase, you can clearly see its cheap Chinese crap! :p
 
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3_fall said:
Exactly, only thing you were slightly off in was that the Chinese make the crap stuff. Haha
There's so much more to the way they trade than I ever realised.
It's like that Hampstead staircase, you can clearly see its cheap Chinese crap! :p
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It's cheap Chinese stuff compared to the way the earth makes it which is priceless pal. ;)

The Chinese are market leaders in a lot of the game. They're not the biggest economy for nothing. Well, child labour, but it keeps our iPhones cheap. Not wait, no it doesn't pmsl
 
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I never said it was better than the real stuff did I!
I just said you'd be pushed to tell them apart.
But you can pay £700m2 and use far more of the earths resources, or you can pay £150m2 and be just a little bit greener. Haha
 
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lol I never said you did say that :p :p

I'm not sure they're actually greener either lol Digging and chopping up compared to the burning of coal and oil making porcelain and firing them etc.

I wonder which is heavier per cubic tonne too. I bet if it's more dense it'll be porcelain. So all the freight costs too. lol :p :p
 
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I wonder which is heavier per cubic tonne too. I bet if it's more dense it'll be porcelain. So all the freight costs too. lol :p :p
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Just to be pedantic, a metric tonne is a metric tonne, a bit like Calacatta is Calacatta, :D

It's the cubic metre of space they require, depending on each materials density, that makes the difference. :p:p

It's all supposition anyway, cos I don't actually know, was just speculating haha
 
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That's a silly size.

Are we really just doing this to not see grout joints?

Are people who are buying them thinking it's going to fool other people into thinking they have a room built from solid marble? lol
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I think they're pushing for more fascade applications
 
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That decide to close the Joints up, never seen one of them before, is that really necessary ?
 
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