Ceramic tiles:

Ceramic tiles come in a wide variety, such as floor tiles, wall tiles, mosaics, and decorative tiles.

When creating the right look for your home, color and pattern are important. This industry offers the right mix of colors, sizes, and textures to make it easy for you to express your individuality.

Ceramic tiles have been used for centuries. Today’s ceramic tiles are virtually indistinguishable from travertines, slates, natural marbles, and other stone products.

Porcelain tile and glazed ceramic tile are an excellent choice for kitchens, sun rooms, great rooms, bathrooms, and foyers.

Ceramic floor tiles are more durable than ceramic wall tiles. Wall tiles are available with a matte surface or a semi-gloss finish glaze. This glazed surface has a very low slip resistance and becomes slippery when wet. Therefore, glazed wall tiles are much more suitable for countertop applications or wall applications rather than flooring.

Tiles:

Clay and water constitute the two basic elements of glazed ceramic tile. Various clays are mixed to a fine powder by extracting and grinding them and to form the body of the tile which are pressed together. To reduce the moisture content, the pressed body is dried. They then paint the surface of the tile with a glass-like colored glaze. Then, to fuse the glaze to the tile surface, the tile is heated in kilns to approximately two thousand degrees Fahrenheit. This forms the finished product.

Porcelain:

Porcelain tile is used for both interior and exterior applications and can withstand heavy foot traffic while maintaining its color and beauty. A mixture of fine-grained clays and other minerals is used to produce porcelain tiles that are highly resistant to moisture, wear and stains, as they have a very dense body.

There are industry standardized ratings and tests to determine the overall performance and glaze surface durability of ceramic tile and this rates the specific tile resistance to breakage, moisture, abrasion, scratching and more.

Patterns and designs can be chosen by planning floor patterns, wall patterns, floor borders, and wall-floor combinations.

You can plan and design your own floor by choosing the right design for your home. How do you do it? By following the correct pattern and choosing the right pattern for your home. This largely depends on your taste and lifestyle.

You can be your own designer. You can do this by deciding on various factors such as scale, color, layout style, texture, and pattern.

Scale – You can use larger patterns for larger rooms and smaller patterns for smaller rooms.

Color: To choose the color of the tile, discover the color of your cabinet, your table, chair or sofa, wall and more. You have to base the color of the tile floor on the color of various appliances in your room. Which means it’s best if you choose a contrasting tile color for your floor.

Design Style – It is always a general notion that a theme will often reveal itself in colors, styles, and textures. Therefore, collect all your favorite items such as stamps, photos and other items of interest to you and, if possible, place them on a design board.

Texture and pattern: Next comes texture and pattern after color and style. Every style and type of flooring has a texture.

How to protect your flooring investment:

1. Sweep or vacuum regularly to remove sand or dirt;

2. Under chairs and heavy furniture, use felt pads;

3. Clean up spillage residue by removing spillage immediately with a clean, dry microfiber cloth;

4. Acids can damage the grout and glazed tile surface, and ammonia will discolor the grout. So make sure cleaners never contain acids or ammonia;

5. Make sure all exterior entrances are protected with protective matting;

6. Never use oil or wax soaps while cleaning your tile floor;

7. Visit your flooring dealer for a professional-strength grout cleaner that will remove stains like soap scum, mildew stains, and grease from grout joints;

8. Contact your flooring dealer for tile sealant and adhesive remover when you need to remove waxes or sealants from your tile floor;

9. Always keep in mind not to slide or roll heavy appliances or furniture across the floor; protect your floor when using a dolly to move appliances or furniture.