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[Italy]

I believe the problem is widespread all over the world.
save, save. and this is the result.
+ 50% blame the seller. when you see the first time that tile is crap.
not continue to sell rubbish. but changing product.
sell rubbish, make more profit than selling decent products.
yet few manufacturers produce decent material.
I think 50% of tiles in circulation, if they follow the standards, should be thrown into the sea.
then fault is always the tiler.
is a struggle every day.
(I may be wrong. But this is my thought)

 

[Andy Allen]

Fitted some 600x300 called urban concrete from b&poo truly awful tiles.
£10 m2....say a it all really..

 

[J Sid]

but are they with in B.S. Tolerances?

 

[Dave]

but are they with in B.S. Tolerances?

Yes , +/- 2mm

I fit loads of BCT tiles , yes they can be sizey etc but I Manage lol

 

[Tile Shop]

but are they with in B.S. Tolerances?

Depends on the tile class, but as they are not extruded, chances are its +/- 2mm. Will have a check.

As for price, that doesn't really come into it. A while back we got 2 containers of a single 60x40 Grade 5 glazed porcelain range from Malaysia. Won't say how much we paid but lets just say we made a tidy % profit with selling them at an RRP of less than £5.00. Special introductory rate.

It was very popular and was all gone in 6 weeks. We placed a new order when it was gone following its success and some of the customers wanting to extent their tiled areas. From Malayasia, this was going to take a while to arrive...... turned out to be 5 months for them to be made and shipped.

But the customers who had it previously and wanted to extend, despite us warning of shade and size variation against their originals, they advised us that the new ones were identical in every way. No difference in shade, pattern or size. We now do several ranges from them and never once had a complaint about their quality. Which is more than I can say for some of our previous higher priced ranges.

So lets move on to Versace tiles shall we? The palace floor range in particular was notorious for having sizing issues and they were silly money. There were variations and even though they should have been square, the worst example we had was 5mm longer one way than the other. The wall tiles to match also had size variations and were bowed and colour wise, didn't match the floor. Their mosaic sheets..... the tiles not on square. They were a costly nightmare and we had to stop doing them.

Then there was their Celebrity range which chipped when you sneezed on them.

Just one example of not having to spend the earth to get good quality.

 

[Italy]

norms uni. say: +/- 0.6% max 2 mm

 

[Rizzle from the Portizzle]

here you go some independent test results .

 

[Spud]

here you go some independent test results .

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as near to perfect as you can get

 

[magga]

Fitted some 600x300 called urban concrete from b&poo truly awful tiles.
£10 m2....say a it all really..

I fitted a load of these recently. I found them fairly similarly sized, however the edges were tapered on some sides, and square on others, so you couldn't use spacers properly, did you find the same thing?

 

[PJ Tiling]

You and me both bro... Been fixing 450x450 panesa ceramics, cust paid a fair whack for them. Nightmare job as im some of them are 1/2 mm out, customer insisted on 3mm grout lines!