Best and Worst Tiles You've Worked With Recently

[mev]

B&Q Glacier Pack of 3 Ivory Polished Porcelain Tiles (L)600 x (W)600mm size variation and bowed
shockers

 

[Spud]

All plank wood effect porcelain are rubbish as far as I have seen even the porcenalosa ones are benders

 

[jonnyc]

I would say that as far as limestone is concerned I have had consistently bad supply from mandarin on last five jobs I have done and they were not not small jobs either.
3 of the floors were 250sq mats plus and other two about 80mts.

 

[jonnyc]

Interesting to hear your comments on plank effect gary. I've just been encouraging a contractor to buy these tiles but maybe I won't now.
but if you think these porcelain planks are trouble I can tell you that I was fixing the first wenge sandstone planks from Saudi Arabia @20mm,running lengths 1000 to 1800 mm 7 or 8 years ago and you could get a waggle when verticle of at least 150mm.if you tried to carry it flat it would just break.
every paris ceramics showroom in uk and USA defeated all the tilers but I am proud that we did manager to get it down looking god but at great loss to what I quoted

 

[Dougs Third Go]

some I fitted recently did surprise me, nicely, they were rectified 600 x 300's from Wickes, absolutely no complaints at all (and I was looking!!), Then back to reality with some el cheapo B & Q garbage last week, absolute horrendous for size uniformity.

 

[martin1c]

I always try to push customers the porcelanosa route. Their tiles are the best by far. The worst tiles I've ever worked with were a nasty combination of Turkish and handmade

 

[On one]

Not necessarily the the best, but surprising good value.....25m2 of 610mm x 405mm honed travertine from a national supplier with a shop in Blaydon, Newcastle. Very little filler and good size wise too. Only had the one crack on me,which was surprising considering as they were stacked flat in piles of 40 high in the garage!

 

[Mr Tiler]

off tiling for the week got a bedroom floor... hallway and small entrance room to do.... more practise

 

[Dan]

off tiling for the week got a bedroom floor... hallway and small entrance room to do.... more practise

I'm sure you were meant to post that in the "What are you tiling this week" thread ha

 

[cam_low]

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.

I fixed these a while ago. they were bowed big time. Apparently they have bought a factory in Turkey and are now producing bent bowed crap. Oh dear.

 

[Mr Tiler]

Ooops lol

 

[padtheplumber]

Gloss white ripple ceramics B&Q colours range 250 x 400, absolutely shocking! Odd sizes, shaped badly, got to be the worst I've seen, and I've fitted a lot of BCT's!! Set myself a target of 10 sq metres today - I only managed 6

And to top the day off the customer ran out of coffee :yikes:

Its gonna be a long week....

Mart.

 

[Delta Stark]

Italian Porcelain...expensive, but very good quality. I've experienced some calibre issues with BCT tiles.