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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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Concrete look
Concrete tiles can mean roof tiles, cement tiles, a polished slab or a porcelain look. No tile here records concrete as a material; the six concrete looks are porcelain, all matt.
Glossary
Terrazzo is chips set in a cement or epoxy binder, laid on site or made in a factory as tiles. No tile here records it as a material;...
Finish
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...
Materials
What zellige is and how it is made, from two outside sources, then the five wave subway tiles here row by row: ceramic, 75 × 300 mm, gloss,...
Bathroom
Five tiles here record marble, all Carrara mosaics sold by the sheet; fourteen Pietra marble looks record porcelain and are sold by the box. What each page records...
Kitchen
Four places a kitchen wall stops, worked on one assumed 3.6 m wall: the square metres at each, the boxes in three box sizes, where the courses land,...
Materials
Mosaic is a format, not a material. The twelve mosaics here, five marble, four ceramic and three porcelain, with their sheet and piece sizes side by side.
Planning
Twenty-nine white tiles here look alike in a photo. The rows that separate them: material, size, face, thickness, rectified edge, slip class and look.
Colour
What one sample piece can and cannot tell you, how to look at it under your own light, what the product page says about batches, and what to...
Materials
Five product pages still give the short answer promised by this title. Their Material row reads Marble, while twenty-two products are grouped under concrete-look, stone-look, terrazzo-look or travertine-look...
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