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[Colo]

Good Morning,

Wickes Norton Ivory Porcelain Wall & Floor Tile 600 x 300mm | Wickes.co.uk

Wickes Norton Ivory Porcelain Wall & Floor Tile 600 x 300mm

www.wickes.co.uk

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 any response

Col

 

[Paulg83]

Good Morning,

Wickes Norton Ivory Porcelain Wall & Floor Tile 600 x 300mm | Wickes.co.uk

Wickes Norton Ivory Porcelain Wall & Floor Tile 600 x 300mm

www.wickes.co.uk

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 any response

Col

For busy traffic areas (commercial scenario) you're really wanting grade 4-5, strong durable tiles for longevity

 

[Colo]

For busy traffic areas (commercial scenario) you're really wanting grade 4-5, strong durable tiles for longevity

Hi,
Thanks for the reply

 

[Dumbo]

My understanding is porcelain doesn't have a pei rating as it substantially outperforms that test

 

[Colo]

My understanding is porcelain doesn't have a pei rating as it substantially outperforms that test

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.

 

[Andy Allen]

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 ..

 

[Colo]

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.

Cheers

Col

 

[finlay]

My experience with wickes tiles isn’t great poor quality go to a proper tile distributor
You get what you pay for generally

 

[Colo]

My experience with wickes tiles isn’t great poor quality go to a proper tile distributor
You get what you pay for generally

Thanks, thats why I asked wickes to provide me with a pei numbe

 

[Dumbo]

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 ,