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A floor gets walked on, dropped on and mopped for decades — so it is the one surface worth over-specifying. Porcelain for hard-working kitchens and hallways, natural stone where character matters more than convenience, Victorian geometrics for a period house, and frost-proof ranges that carry the same floor out onto a terrace.
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Tell us what the room has to cope with and we'll narrow 2,630 floor tiles to the right few.
Busy family kitchenHardwearing porcelain that shrugs off spills, chairs and dogs.Explore →
Period hallwayVictorian geometrics — the floor people comment on for years.Explore →
Statement patternEncaustic-look and decorative floors that carry a room on their own.Explore →
Natural stone characterLimestone, marble and travertine — texture no print can copy.Explore →
Stone look, less upkeepStone-effect porcelain: the depth, none of the sealing.Explore →
Warmth underfootWood-effect porcelain for open-plan living and underfloor heating.Explore →
Indoors, then outFrost-proof exterior porcelain that matches the floor inside.Explore →
Bathrooms & wet areasSmaller formats and textured finishes with more grip underfoot.Explore →
A floor is bought once and walked on every day for twenty years. It takes grit from outside, dropped pans, chair legs, dog claws and whatever the weather brings through the door. Almost every floor that disappoints was specified for how it looked rather than for what it would have to survive.
These are the questions worth answering before choosing anything.
Where is it, and what comes in on shoes
A hallway takes grit, which is abrasive, and water, which is worse. A kitchen takes heat, oil and impact. A bathroom takes standing water and bare feet. A conservatory takes temperature swings. The same handsome tile is right for one of these and wrong for another, and the difference is rarely visible in a photograph.
Porcelain, ceramic or natural stone
Porcelain is the most durable and the least demanding — dense, low-porosity, and available in convincing stone and wood looks. Ceramic is softer and better suited to lighter domestic floors. Natural stone is the most beautiful and the most involving: it wants sealing, it will patinate, and it rewards that with a floor that improves rather than merely survives.
Rectified edges and grout width
A rectified tile has been machined to an exact size, so it can be laid with a very narrow joint. A non-rectified tile needs a wider one to absorb the variation. Neither is better, but the choice determines how the floor reads: narrow joints give an almost continuous surface, wider joints emphasise the format. Decide which you want before ordering.
The sub-floor decides more than the tile
Most floor failures are movement failures. Timber floors flex and usually need overboarding or a decoupling membrane; screeds need to be dry and flat; anything with underfloor heating needs the right adhesive. This is the least glamorous part of the specification and the part that determines whether the floor is still perfect in ten years.
Order enough, from one batch
Natural variation between production batches is normal and can be obvious across a large floor. Order the whole floor at once, allow a sensible wastage margin — more for a diagonal, a herringbone or a pattern — and keep a few spares in the garage. Matching a batch three years later is rarely possible.
See it at floor level
A tile held at eye level in a showroom looks nothing like the same tile underfoot. Free cut samples are worth ordering for any floor: put them on the actual floor, in the actual room, and walk past them for a few days.
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