Short answer: There is no wall-or-floor row on a tile page here. Sixty product records carry a size and a material, a finish on fifty-seven of them, a thickness on fifty-nine and a slip class on thirty-six — and not one of them carries a field saying where the tile goes. This page lists the rows that do separate the wall group from the rest, and says who answers the question the rows cannot.
Search the comparison and every result answers it the same way, in the language of body and traffic: one kind of tile is built to be walked on, the other to be looked at. Google's summary opens with that sentence. It may well hold across the industry. What it is not is something you can check against the tile in front of you, because none of those properties is recorded on a product page. So this page does the other thing — it reads the rows that are actually there.
1. The rows a product page here carries
Open the specifications panel on any product and the same frame appears: product type, style or shape, a slip-rating reference, material, thickness, a quantity line and stock. On the forty-eight field tiles the quantity line now sits in the description list as a Box coverage row, updated on 2 October 2026 from supplier documentation; on the twelve mosaics, sold by the sheet since 4 October 2026, it is a Sold by row reading The sheet, followed on eleven of them by the approximate area of one sheet. Where the supplier's documentation does not state something, the row reads Not specified, and the page adds a line saying so in as many words.
Inside the description, the rows that appear across the sixty records are these.
| Row | Products carrying it |
|---|---|
| Thickness | 59 |
| Finish | 57 |
| Slip rating | 33 |
| Sizes (two formats) | 28 |
| Size (one format) | 20 |
| Sheet size | 11 |
| Profile | 11 |
| Piece size | 10 |
| Box coverage (from 2 October 2026) | 48 |
| Edge | 1 |
Read the list twice and the absence is the point. There is no row called application, no row called where to use, no row that says wall or floor. Product type comes closest, and it is a description of what the tile is rather than where it goes: marble-look on fourteen, mosaic on twelve, subway on eleven, concrete-look on six, stone-look on six, terrazzo-look on five, travertine-look on five, and one ceramic wall tile. One product type out of eight contains the word wall. None contains the word floor.
2. The wall collection, and the floor collection that is not there
There is a wall tiles collection with twelve members: the eleven subway tiles and Studio Pure White. All twelve record ceramic. Eleven are 8 mm and one is 10 mm. The face sizes are 75 × 300 mm on nine, 100 × 300 mm on two and 300 × 600 mm on one. None of the twelve carries a slip class, and the collection page says so and draws the conclusion itself: nothing on that page can be read as a floor result.
There is no matching floor tiles collection. Ask for one and the site returns a 404. That is not an oversight to be tidied up later — it follows directly from the first section. Grouping tiles as floor tiles is a statement about where they go, and the records do not carry the evidence for it product by product. A wall collection can exist because its members share a shape family and a face size range; a floor collection would have to claim something the pages do not say. How to choose floor tiles, room by room goes through what to check instead.
3. The three rows that do separate one group from another
Three rows do split the range, and it is worth being precise about what that split is and is not.
Slip class. Thirty-six of the sixty record one: thirty-three carry a Slip rating row, each with a single class (Quarry Sand and Quarry Ash gave a two-value range until 4 October 2026), and three more, the Atlas stone-looks, carry it in the panel's Slip-rating reference row instead. The panel prints the value with the words confirm for the intended application
beside it. The thirty-six are not scattered: they are the whole of five look families — fourteen marble-look, six concrete-look, six stone-look, five terrazzo-look and five travertine-look — and every one of them is a porcelain tile made in the 600 mm formats. No subway tile and no mosaic sheet records a class. The other twenty-four read Not specified, which is a gap in the documentation and not a result. Several collection pages here describe the recorded values as AS 4586 slip classes. The records do not name an edition; the edition in the Standards Australia catalogue is AS 4586-2013, Slip resistance classification of new pedestrian surface materials. Tile slip ratings explains what the classes mean and where the building code names one.
Thickness. Fifty-nine of the sixty record one, in four values. Ten millimetres appears on thirty-seven: thirty-six porcelain and one ceramic. Eight millimetres appears on sixteen: the eleven subway tiles and the five marble mosaics. Six millimetres appears on four ceramic mosaics and seven millimetres on two porcelain strip mosaics. One, Studio White Finger, records nothing.
Material. Thirty-nine record porcelain, sixteen ceramic and five natural marble; all sixty record a material. The sixteen ceramic tiles are listed together in ceramic tiles.
Line those three up and a pattern is visible: the wall collection is ceramic, eleven of its twelve at 8 mm, with no slip class; the tiles that do record a slip class are porcelain, and all thirty-six record 10 mm. That is a true description of this catalogue. What it is not is a general rule, and the distance between those two sentences is the whole subject of this page. The rows tell you these particular tiles differ. They do not tell you that being 8 mm causes a tile to belong on a wall, and nothing here would let us say it.
4. What the summary says, and what we can check
Google's summary and all six results rest on the same three properties of the tile body. This site is in no position to agree or disagree, and the reason is worth stating exactly. No page here records density, breaking strength or water absorption; a search across all sixty product records for that family of terms returned nothing at all. Not a low figure — no figure. Any sentence this site wrote on the subject would be repeating someone else's claim with our name on it.
The one thing we can add is the thickness data above, and it does not line up as neatly as the general rule suggests. The thinnest tiles here are not the wall group but six mosaic sheets, at 6 mm and 7 mm, and the five marble mosaics share the subway tiles' 8 mm. Only one tile, Studio White Finger, records no thickness.
5. What the installed photographs are, and are not
Nineteen pages on this site show tiles in finished rooms. They show rooms built with these tiles, published because a face in a room reads differently from a face on a white background. They are not our own projects.
Some of them show one tile on both surfaces. The Atlas Ivory page describes the tile running across the walls and the floor, carried from the floor up. That sentence is a record of what somebody did, in a room we did not design or specify, and it is not the same as a statement that the tile is fit for both. A photograph shows that something was done once; it cannot show whether it was appropriate, and we hold no documentation that would close that gap.
6. Who answers the question, and what they will ask you for
The collection pages here end with the same line: confirm project requirements with the responsible installer or specifier before ordering. That sounds like a disclaimer and it is also the practical answer. The person who can decide where a tile goes is the one carrying responsibility for the installation, working from your particular room rather than from a catalogue.
What this page can do is tell you what to bring. For any tile you are considering, four rows are worth copying down before that conversation: the face size, the material, the thickness, and whether a slip class is recorded — including, plainly, when it is not. The blanks matter as much as the values, because a blank is the thing your installer may need to chase with the supplier. What to confirm before choosing sets out the same list product by product, and how to choose bathroom tiles puts the wet-floor question where it belongs: last, and not settled on a shop page.
Can floor tiles be used for walls?
No product record here answers that, because no product record here classifies a tile as a floor tile in the first place. What the pages give you is size, material, thickness and, on thirty-six of sixty, a slip class. Take those to the person responsible for the installation; that is where the decision sits.
Is it possible to use wall tile on the floor?
The same applies in the other direction, with one thing worth quoting. The wall tiles collection page states that none of its twelve members carries a slip class, and concludes that nothing on that page can be read as a floor result. That is the strongest statement this site can make on its own evidence.
What goes first, floor tile or wall tile?
That is a sequencing question for whoever is laying the tile, and nothing on this site records it. It appears in the search results here mostly through a renovation forum, which is a reasonable indication that it is a question people want a practitioner to answer rather than a shop.
7. Where these facts come from
Row counts, product types, thicknesses, materials and slip-class counts come from the sixty product records on this site, read on 18 September 2026 (four sentences, on the finish count, the thickness of the wall collection, the thickness of the slip-rated tiles and where the Atlas slip class sits, were corrected on 30 September 2026, and the thickness, material and slip-class counts updated on 1 October 2026 from supplier documentation; the Box coverage row and the quantity line were updated on 2 October 2026 from supplier documentation, and the mosaics' quantity line on 4 October 2026), together with the wall, subway and large-format collections and the rendered specification panel on three product pages. The absence of density, breaking strength and water-absorption figures was checked by searching all sixty records for those terms; the result was nil. The missing floor tiles collection was confirmed by requesting it and receiving a 404 on the same date. The competing description of wall and floor tiles is taken from the first page of Australian Google results for the comparison — six results, all Australian, plus a forum panel — and from the summary printed above them. Nobody here has put any tile through a wet-pendulum assessment or any other check; where a class is recorded it is the value in the supplier's documentation, offered as a reference figure and not as approval for a use. Every tile has a sample.
References
Standards Australia. AS 4586-2013, Slip resistance classification of new pedestrian surface materials. Catalogue entry, store.standards.org.au/product/as-4586-2013
The Standards Australia facts are limited to its public catalogue entry, read on 22 September 2026: designation and title. No paid standard text was copied or paraphrased.
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