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Porcelain tiles or ceramic tiles are porcelain or ceramic tiles commonly used to cover floors and walls, with a water absorption rate of less than 0.5 percent. The clay used to build porcelain tiles is generally denser. They can either be glazed or unglazed. Porcelain tiles are one type of vitrified tiles and are sometimes referred to as porcelain vitrified tiles.
Historically, porcelain was not the usual material for tiles, which were much more often made of earthenware (terracotta) or stoneware. The first porcelain tiles were made in China, for example in the 15th-century Porcelain Tower of Nanjing (now largely destroyed). Here the tiles were used for walls, which long remained typical. In Europe, a few rooms were made in palaces of porcelain plaques, often with forms in high relief. These were made by Capodimonte porcelain and Real Fábrica del Buen Retiro among others.
Although porcelain has now been widely used for making tiles for many years, modern production methods and quantities have made porcelain tiles available for the average householder in recent years.

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    Wickes Riga Slate Effect Beige Porcelain Floor Tiles 300 x 600 ~ Desperately Needed!

    Hi, Does anyone out there have any of these discontinued tiles left over from a project? I have finally ripped out my 29 year old (I kid you not!) kitchen and due to the different layout of my new (yippee...) kitchen units, I need some of these tiles to fill in the gaps which will be on show...
  2. Joshjupp

    Best way to cut 20mm porcelain

    What’s the best way/ blade for cutting 20mm porcelain been cutting with a 4 inch grinder it’s taking a long time with the rubi blade and getting really hot got a few hundred cuts to do
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    Sealing porcelain tiles

    Hello all I have procelain tiles laid in my kitchen floor. The tiles are cream colour and have a bit of shine on them. Issue is they get dirty so quick I was thinking of sealing them???also I want to give them a good clean would hiring a polisher machine so the job?
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    Adhesives for Ditra and Porcelain

    Hi All. I am about to start tiling my hall. The floor is concrete & screed. The plan is to prime the slab with APD, bond the Ditra matting to the slab with Mapei Keraquick S1 and then use Mapei Mapeker to bond the large format porcelain tiles to the Ditra. I am confused about the...
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    I'm Looking For This Tile Polished porcelain Tile

    Hi I've been trying to locate a certain tile I had laid in my dining room ,its 600 x 600 polished porcelain the shop I purchased from closed down Euro tile... I have a couple of spare boxes but nowhere what I need to complete an extension floor so it just flows through ,the info on the boxes...
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    Best blade for porcelain cutting

    Any recommendations for a blade for cutting a lot of 16mm porcelain tiles, in a bridge cutter? I read that Marcrist CK850 is a good blade? A 200mm one is nearly £80.
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    Marble veneer with porcelain back

    Does anyone have experience of working with marble veneer tiles? Apparently the veneer is marble, but backed on to porcelain. Are these tiles any good? The marble still needs sealing.
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    I'm Looking For This Tile Wickes Courtyard Mews Aged Terracotta Matt Porcelain Floor Tile 410x410mm Wickes

    Hi I am desperate to find Courtyard Mews Aged Terracotta Matt Porcelain Floor Tile 410x410mm Orginally from wick in 2013/14. Anyone with any they could sell me I would be very grateful
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    Porcelquick - adped system (external 20mm porcelaine tiles)

    Hello All, I'm seriously considering using the above system, do any tilers on here have any experience, good or bad, they would like to share please? One concern I have is if there would be a noticeable hollow sound but unsure if this would travel through 20mm porcelain tiles and I'm only...
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    External corner mitring in porcelain + grout info

    I've been looking at threads on here for a while but thought I'd post for some advice. I'm currently in the middle of a wetroom build. We're most of the way through tiling but have now reached the mitring stage. Some are simple external corners but we have to go around a window and a couple of...
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    Bridge tile cutter for large 16mm porcelain tiles

    Any recommendations for a bridge tile saw that can handle a 1200mm 16mm thick porcelain paving tile? Ideally I want to hire one, or buy used, as it's for one job, but we have 150sq m of tiles to lay...
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    External concrete slab for 20mm porcelaine

    Hello All, After a few months respite I'm back. Some of you may recall my pre-Christmas dilemma with laying 30+sqm porcelain on what I thought was a unlevel slab. Well I heeded everyone's advice and got a professional tiler in who did a superb job and it turned out the floor was only 5mm lower...
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    Grout haze porcelain tiles

    Hello everyone need advice I had porcelain tiles laid a week ago in my kitchen . The tiles are light cream and have a grout haze that wont come off. Ive tried vinegar,baking soda and even a chemical tile cleaner not designed for haze thou. Any idea how i can get rid of the grout haze
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    Advice for mosaic and porcelain

    My wife would like the shower cubicle (2 walls inside a quadrant enclosure) tiled with porcelain tiles but with a central vertical strip of glass mosaics. Is there an adhesive that would be appropriate for both? The substrate is waterproof cement boards (Abacus elements brand) with all joints...
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    Porcelain tiles on linoleum floor

    Hello all, Linoleum floor is not coming up at all, anyway to porcelain tile on top? Thanks
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    Cutting porcelain tiles diagonally

    Hi, I am trying to cut 600 x 600 porcelain tiles diagonally corner to corner on my bridge saw. Upon making contact with the tile, the edge chips leaving an unsharp cut at the start. Do you have any suggestions to avoid this. Could it be a sign that the blade has lost its edge? Cutting across a...
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    Have I got the correct adhesive for 300x600 porcelain?

    I have purchased mapei S1 keraquick flex rappied adhesive for the floor boarding and tiling and mapei S1 kerflex standard set for the walls. The tiles are 10mm 600x300 ceramic (for one wall) and 8mm 600x300 for the rest of the walls and floor. The floor boards will be boarded with tile backer...
  18. dg-1984

    Splitface Porcelain tiles

    I am doing a splashback in my own home and have managed to get some Wickes porcelain Splitface tiles. Won't be the best quality but we like the look of them. Do the tiles have to be all laid the same way so the pattern on the tiles is the same or do they need flipped 180 each time so the pattern...
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    HOMEBASE PORCELAIN TILE 60 X 30 LUNA BEIGE

    I'm searching for some spare porcelain tiles previously stocked by Homebase under description "Luna Beige" stock code SF07. They were sold in around 2014 /2015 but are no longer stocked. Anyone out there who can help? Thanks Amigos
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    Porcelain 600mm x 600mm. Same adhesive for floor and walls?

    Looking for some adhesive advice... DIY bathroom job, 600 x 600 porcelain tiles 26kg per sq metre plus weight of adhesive (pick my Sigma 3c3m up tomorrow). Tiles going on floor and halfway up walls both on 6mm hardie backer (unless plaster board will take weight of tiles going up the wall...
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