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TilingPeter

How many bad tiles do people find? Do you often need to return large quantities of tiles?

I decided to cut a tile this evening and ended up spending the whole time searching for a good tile to cut. I went through 3 boxes and found 1 good tile (6 per box)! My first few boxes were very good. Out of the first 4 boxes 3 of them were all good and one box was awful. I've now hit 3 bad boxes in a row and will need to order more. I've almost finished a wall now so I can't change tiles now.

They're British Ceramic Tiles, and after tiling I've heard that they're not very good. The defects I have vary from tiny scratches, to water spot type marks and pimples.

I would usually expect to have mostly good tiles and a few with minor defects which can be used in less visible areas. However, I'm getting about 4-5 unusable tiles plus one which is barely ok, but not good enough for an eye-level tile. Would tile places usually be happy to replace the boxes?
 
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Dumbo

I f they are substandard take them back . That is nowhere near acceptable. Any product should be of merchantable quality. I don't get anywhere near the numbers you are talking about if anything just the odd one gear and there but mostly not at all .
 
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TilingPeter

Here's a picture of some spots (circled with a marker). These are the worst ones so far.

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GoneGuy

I think I will be doing the same as a bathroom I’m booked in to tile is all bct tiles, wall and floor.
 

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