Has any one any experience of these tiles from Wickes and are they any good on a kitchen floor. It does not give a PEI rating for these polished porcelain tiles but they have a similar glazed floor tile which is only rated at PEI 3.
I would also welcome any opinions regarding the durability of polished porcelain in busy areas.
Has any one any experience of these tiles from Wickes and are they any good on a kitchen floor. It does not give a PEI rating for these polished porcelain tiles but they have a similar glazed floor tile which is only rated at PEI 3.
I would also welcome any opinions regarding the durability of polished porcelain in busy areas.
Thanks for the advice I appreciate it. Some of their polished porcelain is marked as pei 3 but there is no listing on this one Customer Services are going to contact supplier to see if they can give pei rating.
polished porcelain tiles are unglazed, it's just a porcelain body tile put through a honing machine to create the polished surface.
from experience the cheaper the tile, the less quality the porcelain is, and is more porous and fragile ..
polished porcelain tiles are unglazed, it's just a porcelain body tile put through a honing machine to create the polished surface.
from experience the cheaper the tile, the less quality the porcelain is, and is more porous and fragile ..
Hi,
Thanks for the advise. Wickes got back to me with some jargon from the supplier that steered round the question I asked.
I went on the manufacturers web site and it describes some of their porcelain tiles as being polished glazed porcelain. I would have thought they were either polished or glazed.
Pei is not the be all and end all , you want to think about squareness and flatness and all sorts of things during manufacture that may make them cut well or cut badly, also how open the surface of the tile is (pores ) so how susceptible they are to staining ,
Pei is not the be all and end all , you want to think about squareness and flatness and all sorts of things during manufacture that may make them cut well or cut badly, also how open the surface of the tile is (pores ) so how susceptible they are to staining ,
Thanks for the advice It is appreciated. I totally agree with all your points and have taken them all into consideration. I am aware that any honed or polished porcelain will be porous and a good sealer will be used but the PEI number is what the consumer relies upon to determine which tiles are more suited to purpose and location. I understood that this classification takes porosity and staining into account before being given a PEI number.
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Thanks for the advice I think you are right and will follow the advice of Finlay above and 'go to a proper tile distributor'.
i have used cheap tiles in the past and as you all state and I struggled with gaps and size regularity when a few minutes into the job.
Cheer's
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Thanks for the clarification.
I contacted a 'proper tile distributor', as recommended by Finlay in an earlier post, who has supplied me with a PEI 4 tile and guaranteed the quality for not a great deal more money. He had the same tiles on his showroom floor which get trampled on all day and still look as good as new. Like Finlay says 'you get what you pay for'
Thank you for that information. It has come in very useful for another room I am starting. I think the problem I had was that the cheap tiles I was initially looking at were glazed porcelain which much lower the abrasion resistance.
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Hello Lads I would like to thank you all for your help and sharing your hard earned knowledge. It is appreciated.
Thank you
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