Best and Worst Tiles You've Worked With Recently

[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

 

[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.