Aire Blanco 20x120cm

Aire is sold by the pack, with each pack containing 7 planks and covering 1.68m² (4.17 planks per m²). Measure your total area in square metres, add 10% for cuts and wastage — or 15% if you are laying a stagger or working around awkward returns, as long planks generate more offcuts. Divide by 1.68 and round up. Do note each pack weighs 32kg. Our friendly team is always happy to check your quantities on 01344 620211.

We would steer you away from a 50% brickbond. Every large-format tile has a slight natural bow along its length, so offsetting a 1.2 metre plank by half puts the highest point of one plank against the lowest point of its neighbour — which produces a visible lip. A one-third or one-quarter stagger keeps the joints flat and reads more like a real timber floor anyway. Use a levelling system, back-butter each plank, and dry-lay several packs first so you can shuffle the V4 variation evenly rather than letting dark or light planks cluster.

Because porcelain goes where timber cannot. Aire is impervious to water and frostproof, so it will take a wet room, a boot room, a kitchen or an outdoor terrace without swelling, cupping, staining or needing to be oiled and re-sanded. It is rated F4 for heavy domestic traffic and PTV Shod +36 underfoot, and it works over underfloor heating far more efficiently than wood — timber insulates, porcelain conducts. What you give up is the feel of real timber underfoot; what you gain is a floor that looks the same in ten years.

V4 is the highest shade-variation grade, and it means planks within the same pack will differ markedly in tone, grain and knotting. On a wood-effect tile that is entirely deliberate — real timber boards are never identical, and without that variation a floor reads as an obviously repeated pattern. Do open several packs at once, dry-lay a run and shuffle the planks before fixing. A sample of one plank will not show you the range, so we would always suggest ordering a cut sample alongside a look at the full range in our Ascot showroom.