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Tiles, Porcelain & Ceramics

Tile is a material people are perfectly happy to buy months before anybody lays it, and we sell it exactly that way — by the lot, on trade terms, with no fitting contract attached. Buy for one bathroom or for a whole compound handover, take delivery on site, and hand it to your own tiler. The rate depends on the range, the format and the quantity on the day you order, so we quote against your schedule rather than publishing a number that will not hold.

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    Glazed ceramic

    A porous body carrying a glazed surface. Light, easy to cut, and the sensible economy on walls and low-traffic internal floors. It is not the material for a terrace, a pool surround or a busy hallway, and anybody selling it to you for those is selling you a replacement job in three years.

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    Porcelain, full-body & glazed

    Dense, vitrified and low absorption — the material for floors that get used. Full-body carries the colour right through, so a chip on an edge or a nosing does not show a pale scar. Glazed porcelain gives you the printed marble and stone effects with a porcelain body underneath.

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    Large-format slabs

    Thin large-format panels up to very large sheets, in the marble and stone effects that read as a continuous surface with almost no joints. They need a genuinely flat substrate, full adhesive coverage, a rail saw and handling frames, so buy them knowing your tiler has done them before. We supply the panel, the compatible adhesive and the handling advice.

  4. 04

    Anti-slip for wet areas & pool decks

    Rated tile for shower floors, bathrooms, terraces, pool surrounds and outdoor steps, specified honestly against the actual ratings rather than the word non-slip on a box. The trade-off is real — the more slip resistance you buy, the more texture there is to hold dirt, so the right answer is the lowest rating that is genuinely safe for the use.

  5. 05

    Adhesive, grout & trims

    Cement-based adhesives in the right class for the tile and the substrate, epoxy and cementitious grouts, waterproof tanking for wet rooms, movement joint profiles, edge trims, spacers and levelling systems. Ordered alongside the tile so nothing stops the fixer on day two.

Specification

The numbers, before you ask.

Tiles, Porcelain & Ceramics — technical specification
Ceramic vs porcelainPorcelain absorbs 0.5 per cent water or less; glazed ceramic far more
Formats30 × 60 through 120 × 120 cm, plus large-format slabs to around 160 × 320
Slip ratingsR9 to R13 on the shod ramp test; A, B and C for barefoot wet areas
EdgesRectified takes 2–3 mm joints; pressed cushioned edges need wider joints
Adhesive classC1 for small ceramic; C2 with S1 or S2 flexibility for porcelain and slabs
OrderingOne shade batch for the whole job, plus 10 per cent for cuts and breakage
Blue-and-white patchwork decor tile, floor to ceiling in a shower
Blue-and-white patchwork decor tile, floor to ceiling in a shower

Selection

How to read what you are buying

  • Glazed ceramicWalls & light floors

    Porous body, glazed face. Cheapest per square metre, lightest to handle, easiest to cut. Correct for wall tiling and quiet internal floors, wrong outdoors and wrong anywhere heavy.

  • Glazed porcelainGeneral flooring

    Porcelain body, printed and glazed surface. Gives you the marble, concrete and timber effects on a dense low-absorption body. The everyday specification for villa floors.

  • Full-body porcelainHeavy traffic & edges

    Colour and structure right through the tile. Chips and worn edges do not reveal a different colour underneath, which is why it belongs on stair nosings, commercial floors and anywhere trolleys and heels will find the edges.

  • Large-format slabsFeature surfaces

    Very large thin panels for near-seamless walls, floors and worktop faces. Spectacular and unforgiving — flat substrate, full coverage, correct tooling and a fixer who has handled them before.

  • Rated anti-slipWet & external

    R-rated and barefoot-classified tile for showers, terraces, steps and pool decks. Specified against the rating for the actual use, not against a marketing word.

  • Adhesive, grout & trimsThe rest of the order

    The materials that decide whether the tile survives. Right adhesive class, right grout for the exposure, movement joints where the drawing needs them, trims to finish an edge properly.

Gallery

Tiles, Porcelain & Ceramics in place.

Every photograph on this page was taken on one of our sites during the work. Nothing here is a stock image or a render.

Terracotta square tile with a geometric floor in a walk-in shower
Terracotta square tile with a geometric floor in a walk-in shower
Patterned tile, marble-look wall and wood-effect floor in one bathroom
Patterned tile, marble-look wall and wood-effect floor in one bathroom
Hexagonal stone mosaic on a shower wall around a concealed mixer
Hexagonal stone mosaic on a shower wall around a concealed mixer

Where it goes

  • Villa & apartment flooring
  • Bathrooms & wet rooms
  • Kitchen floors & splashbacks
  • Terraces & balconies
  • Pool surrounds & steps
  • Stairs & landings
  • Feature and cladding walls
  • Retail & restaurant floors

Questions we get asked

Tiles, Porcelain & Ceramics — questions we get asked

Can I buy tile from you and use my own tiler?
Yes, and it is a normal order. Supply only, no fitting, no minimum — one bathroom or a whole handover, both at trade terms. We will supply the matching adhesive, grout and trims with it and tell your tiler what the material needs, because a large-format slab or a rectified porcelain has real fixing requirements and it is cheaper for everybody if that conversation happens before the pallet arrives rather than after the first row goes down crooked.
What slip rating do I actually need?
Two different scales, and both matter. The R scale runs R9 to R13 and comes from a ramp test walked in boots, so it describes shod areas. The A, B and C classes come from a barefoot wet ramp test, which is the one that applies to showers, changing areas and pool decks. As a working guide, R9 is for dry internal floors, R10 for internal wet areas such as bathrooms and kitchens, R11 for covered terraces and entrances, and R11 or R12 with a barefoot class B or C around a pool. Do not simply buy the highest number available — heavy texture traps dirt, needs scrubbing rather than mopping, and is unpleasant on bare feet. Buy the lowest rating that is genuinely safe for the use.
Rectified or cushioned edge?
Rectified tile is mechanically ground to an exact size after firing, so every piece is identical and it can be laid with a 2 to 3 millimetre joint for that near-seamless look. The price of that is a substrate that has to be genuinely flat, because a rectified tile has no rounded edge to hide a lipped joint. Cushioned or pressed edge tile keeps the slightly softened natural edge from the press, needs a wider joint of 3 millimetres and up, and is far more forgiving of a floor that is not perfect. On an existing screed of unknown flatness, cushioned edge is often the honest choice.
How much extra should I order?
Ten per cent over the measured area as a rule, and more if the layout is diagonal, the room is cut up by columns and recesses, or the format is large enough that a cut piece rarely gets used elsewhere. Order it all in one go and check that the boxes carry the same shade batch and calibre — tile is fired in production runs and two batches of the same reference can differ visibly. A second order placed later frequently cannot be matched, and having four spare boxes in a store cupboard is worth a great deal on the day a pipe leaks and a floor has to be opened.
Does tile work outdoors on the North Coast?
Porcelain does, provided it is rated for it. Absorption is the thing to watch — a dense porcelain at or below 0.5 per cent absorption handles the salt and the temperature swing, while a porous ceramic soaks it up. Fix it with a flexible C2 S1 or S2 adhesive rather than a rigid one, use a grout suited to external exposure, and put real movement joints in at the bays. Terraces that lift and drum in their second summer almost always failed on adhesive class and missing movement joints, not on the tile.

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