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[Anthony]

Wouldn’t worry about ratings. Get 20 minutes in and you’ll probably have 5mm joints or none at all. Poor for size and quality!

 

[Colo]

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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Wouldn’t worry about ratings. Get 20 minutes in and you’ll probably have 5mm joints or none at all. Poor for size and quality!

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

Thanks for the sound advice which I am going to follow.

 

[Dumbo]

Pei numbers are for wear / abrasion resistance not for staining or porosity

 

[Colo]

Pei numbers are for wear / abrasion resistance not for staining or porosity

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'

 

[Colo]

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

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