Tile Buying | Tile Choice: Which tiles are good?

Help choosing tiles, and the tile supplier, is just a click away

Nearly 14 years we've been online, and we haven't ever had an area of the website to help people to choose their tiles. We have always been here for the tiler, but when it comes to the homeowner, we seem to have missed the boat a bit. We have a thousands discussion threads related to bathroom tiling and wetroom tiling going wrong. And if we had been here for those homeowners before they'd actually chosen their tiles, we could have perhaps avoided their disasters. Whether DIY doing their own tiling work, or homeowners choosing tiles to be installed by professional tilers; this bit of the forum is for them.

When it comes to buying tiles, and you end up with two or three choices, maybe a border tile, maybe a feature tiled wall, maybe mosaics in vertical lines or as a horizontal border, or maybe the whole shower area is a mosaic or feature shower area? - How do you actually choose the tiles? Some are Full Bodied (Fully Vitrified) Porcelain, Some are Porcelain Glazed. Some are Ceramic, matte ceramics and gloss. Floor tiles and wall tiles in each of all of the above! - HOW does one choose with such varying quality of tile - and often they look the same in the tile shop. And suppliers always only push the ones they have access to.

Checkout the forum categories here:-

• Help choosing your tiles - click here
• Help choosing your tile supplier - click here

Bathroom tiles, kitchen tiles, floor tiles and wall tiles - They stay fixed for decades if installed well, so choose well

There are some pretty cool tiles still in one piece from a while back. The image is of a tile freize fragment from the 13th to 14th century, Kashan, Iran. If we look after our tiled areas and appreciate the effort and work that has gone into making them, so we can shower all over them without issues, we might one day have our works in a museum also. (Potteries Museum and Art Gallery, at time of writing of course)

Latest Discussion; Choosing Tiles / Choosing Supplier

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Wet Room Question time

• Sk-cookie
• Monday at 11:28 PM
• Which Tiles Are Best? Current Tile Trends

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Yesterday at 10:56 AM

Dan

External Floor Tiles - Patio / Path Tiles

• Dan
• Oct 10, 2019
• Which Tiles Are Best? Current Tile Trends

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Oct 10, 2019

Dan

Best tiles for kitchen splashbacks - Kitchen areas and kitchen tiling

• Dan
• Oct 10, 2019
• Which Tiles Are Best? Current Tile Trends

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Oct 10, 2019

Dan

Best tiles for bathrooms

• Dan
• Oct 10, 2019
• Which Tiles Are Best? Current Tile Trends

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Oct 10, 2019

Dan

Ctd Darlington, Tile shop recommended by David Howe Tiling from Tilersforums.com

• Dave
• Oct 8, 2019
• Which Tile Shops Are Best?

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Oct 8, 2019

Lou