Best and Worst Tiles You've Worked With Recently

[Dan]

What are the best and worst tiles you've worked with recently?

Do you still get the bowing with bumpy's and whatnot these days?

 

[Ian]

Porcelanosa are always a pleasure to work with, millimetre perfect and always straight. BCT are the ones that are a pain, big size variations and often bowed.

 

[demi34]

I think the worse tiles are from turkey

 

[Dan]

Are there not any turkish that suffice? They all a bit tosh or what?

 

[CJ]

I hate Padova with a passion.

 

[The Legend; Phil Hobson RIP]

I gave my mate Waggy a lift on a job the other week, only to find we couldn't cut the glazed pocelain. We even enlisted Andy tiler and son.

I did put some pics on a while back showing Andy caroll and son, Waggy, and myself trying to cut these tiles with Andy's top of the range Sigma, it wouldn't touch them,

 

[Dan]

Nearly swore then. Those are quite big. ha

 

[DHTiling]

Best tiles ...? , there are a few , porcelenosa , I agree are good .. But the worst are the BCT ones they import.. Some are more bent than Alan Carr lol lol .

 

[John Benton]

Have to agree with Bri on Porcelanosa, but my supplier does Casalgrande and Marazzi they are beautiful tiles to work with

Casalgrande Padana spa - Floor and Wall tiles, Fine Porcelain Stoneware, Single-fired tiles - Casalgrande Padana

Marazzi Tiles and Floor Coverings - Ceramics and Porcelain | Marazzi

I'm working with some that client has supplied 60x30 rectified porc, made in Malaysia. I think that because of the size they are cutting ok but if they are any bigger may have problems like you Phil.

Worst ones were when a customer supplied and they were 2-3 mm out of square. They were from Argentina, first time I've come across tiles from there

 

[The Legend; Phil Hobson RIP]

Best tiles ...? , there are a few , porcelenosa , I agree are good .. But the worst are the BCT ones they import.. Some are more bent than Alan Carr lol lol .

Is Alan Carr bent Dave? I would never have guessed.:lol::lol:

 

[STEVO]

Few weeks ago i did 2 bathrooms with some villeroy & boch 450x450's. Not impressed. sizes were a little out and when on the wall the shades looked all different to my eye and even the plumbers! All batches were same. didnt look nice to me. They got me to cut down a different shade tile to insert as a border, (against my advice) and some looked bowed after i snapped them.
luckily customers didnt notice as they didnt really have an eye for design, so they were well happy with it all. But i wouldnt use them again.

 

[area tiling]

Marazzi are great to work with , Bct pile of poo just like B&Q !

 

[afright]

B&Q cheap polished porcelain.

 

[Diggy]

B&Q , no question ,had variation of 3mm in size, 40x40, shockers.

 

[On one]

Grespania Icara Blanco will be burned into my memory for ever more.........same problem as Phil Hobson