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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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Corners of five large tile samples stacked on a pale oak table in soft side light: two white marble looks, a travertine look with a linear grain, a cream textured stone look and a pale grey marble look.

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600 × 1200 mm tiles: 12 compared

Short answer: twelve of the sixty products here record 600 × 1200 mm, and 600 × 1200 mm tiles lists the same twelve. Ten are also made as a 600 mm square; Pietra Vela and Pietra Vela Fluted are made only in the long...

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Five rectangular tiles fanned out on a pale oak table in soft side light: a white marble look, a beige travertine look, a grey terrazzo, a grey concrete look and a dark rough slate look. Guides

300 × 600 mm tiles: 19 compared

Short answer: nineteen of the sixty products here record 300 × 600 mm, and 300 × 600 mm tiles lists the same nineteen. Eighteen are also made as...

Six large tiles leaning against a plaster wall in window light: a polished white marble look, a grey concrete look, a grey terrazzo with large chips, a vein-cut travertine look, a dark rough slate look and a cream stone look. Guides

600 × 600 mm tiles: 34 compared

Short answer: thirty-four of the sixty products here record 600 × 600 mm, and 600 × 600 mm tiles lists the same thirty-four. Six are made only as...

Eight beige tile samples on an oak table: two vein-cut travertine looks, a cream travertine, a speckled concrete look, a pale plain face, a terrazzo with round chips, a soft cream stone look and a tan polished marble with one diagonal vein. Guides

Beige tiles: 8 compared

Short answer: eight products here carry the Colour: Beige tag, and Beige tiles lists the same eight. They are not one kind of tile: three are travertine looks,...

Five dark tile samples on a raw concrete bench by a window: two large charcoal squares with a faint stone grain, a smaller graphite square, a glossy black subway tile and a glossy black subway tile with a rippled face. Guides

Charcoal and black tiles: 5 compared

Short answer: five products here are filed darker than grey. Three carry the Colour: Charcoal tag and sit in Charcoal tiles; two carry Colour: Black and sit in...

Eight loose white tile samples overlapping on a pale timber table under low side light: a veined marble-look square, a rippled wave tile, a small square mosaic sheet, gloss and matt flat tiles in slightly different whites. Guides

White tiles: 29 whites compared

Short answer: twenty-nine products here carry the Colour: White tag, and White tiles lists the same twenty-nine. They are the largest colour group on the site: eleven mosaic...

Two tile sample pieces photographed edge-on at eye level against a dark background: one edge is crisp and square, the other visibly softened and slightly rounded. Guides

How to tell if a tile is rectified

Short answer: start with the product page's Edge entry and its Style / shape row. If neither records rectified, a sample can give you an edge to examine,...

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