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How to measure, compare and plan a tiling job, with the numbers worked through and every product fact taken from its product page.

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Room ideas and practical decisions.

Two marble-look tile pieces of one veined white look, upright side by side: the left with a soft low-sheen face, the right showing a window as a bright reflection

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What is a honed finish? What the word describes, and the honed tiles here

What honed means, from a dictionary, a stone-trade body and eight tile and stone businesses; how honed, polished and matt faces handle light; and the Pietra tiles here you can order honed or polished, or polished or matt.

10 October 2026 Read article

Close-up of four large tile pieces fanned on a concrete bench, edges and faces showing: glossy white reflecting a window, matt grey, honed beige stone-look, rough charcoal, in raking light.

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Porcelain or ceramic, rectified or not, matt or gloss: what the words on a tile page mean, and which tiles here are which

What porcelain, ceramic, rectified, matt and gloss mean in plain terms, and which of the sixty tiles here carry each word on their product page.

14 Sep 2026

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Useful answers, without a separate help section.

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