Laura Ashley Mr Jones floor tiles discolouring after being laid

[WetSaw]

Just looked through some spare porcelain BCT tiles and they are all made in Spain by a company called Porcelanico.

Porcelanico is Spanish for porcelain..

 

[Boggs]

Porcelanico is Spanish for porcelain..

Ah, what a fool I am!

Did GCSE Spanish as well.

 

[Tile Shop]

I'm pretty sure thats the logo for Realonda

 

[Time's Ran Out]

So in fact BRITISH CERAMIC TILES is just the marketing name for any country supplied tiles!
Bit misleading don’t you think?

 

[Middlesex Tiles]

British Ceramic Tiles & Porcelain Tiles From Around The World might be a better name?

 

[Boggs]

The tile says



The box says

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[Dumbo]

The tile says

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The box says

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Doesn't actually say manufactured in Britain . So in theory they could own a plant in Spain but it would still be manufactured by them

 

[Matt V]

Eb>10% there's no way they're floor suitable

 

[Dumbo]

I can't remember what the absorbtion rate of water is meant to be in ceramics . But people say about ceramics not being suitable for floors but years ago fitting ceramics was the norm and fitting porcelain was unusual so because we have better materials does it mean they are no longer any good . Mercedes is a better car than a skoda does mean thst the skoda won't get you from a to b or should we say skoda's aren't fit for purpose because they are not as good as a Mercedes

 

[Matt V]

I can't remember what the absorbtion rate of water is meant to be in ceramics . But people say about ceramics not being suitable for floors but years ago fitting ceramics was the norm and fitting porcelain was unusual so because we have better materials does it mean they are no longer any good . Mercedes is a better car than a skoda does mean thst the skoda won't get you from a to b or should we say skoda's aren't fit for purpose because they are not as good as a Mercedes

anything over 10% is essentially a wall tile, it far to open and porous to go on a floor. Given its low breaking strength its really not durable enough

 

[Time's Ran Out]

No that’s not right Made in Spain on the tile - manufactured by BCT based in Devon!!
That’s misleading information.
What it’s doing is putting all end users at risk! Trading standards will have to be notified, discussions in Parliament will take place, and tilers of these Isles will have to rebel!!
At the end of the day I won’t use them.

 

[Middlesex Tiles]

A new sticking point on the Brexit negotiations maybe . . . .

 

[Boggs]

Ha ha,

BCT is all we will be fitting when Theresa Mays Brexit deal gets rejected!

 

[Waluigi]

It’ll all be Chinese......

 

[Tile Shop]

Eb>10% there's no way they're floor suitable

Everyone would love this to be accurate, but technically, its not quite.

Firstly, they have the wrong CE stamp on. Kinda proves they are repackaging imported material. If they are porcelain, they will be BIa (Eb < 0.5%) or BIb (0.5 -3%). Imported ceramic floor tiles tend to be grade BIIa (3-6%) or BIIb (6-10%)

Gonna stand back and watch the pitchforks charge from over the hill when I say this, but any tile, even Class BIII (Eb > 10% like nearly all of BCT's homemade ceramic wall and floor tiles) can be certified as a floor tile providing they pass ISO 10545-4 (Modulus of rupture/breaking charge) and ISO10545-7 scratch resistance test with a PEI of 1 or more.

Density of the tile doesn't come into it. You could argue that if fixed correctly onto a properly secure substrate there "shouldn't" be a problem. but even the slightest crack in the substrate either in a screed or between boards, will crack them far easier than a tile of a higher classification.