Shine On Your Floor
Expected Variations in Porcelain Tiles: A little bit of advice
Porcelain is a fantastic, tough, and very durable product that makes an ideal floor surface. It is easy to live with, easy to clean and maintain, and will look brilliant for many, many years. Plus, of course, porcelain also has many other benefits like all ceramic tiles.
- It is a natural heat bank
- Child friendly
- Asthma friendly
- Does not give off CFCs
- Fireproof
- Will last for years
When a floor is tiled with polished porcelain, especially in lighter tones, it adds a new dimension to any area of our home or commercial building. Polished tiles reflect light and make an area brighter, more inviting, and create an illusion of space. I have had porcelain tiles in houses I have lived in over 20 years and I have not had one problem with them. I would recommend them to anyone!
How do they make them so shiny?
Porcelain tiles are a very high quality variety of ceramic which is so dense it can be polished by special polishing stones to a very high finish. Beaumont Tiles sells three main types of porcelain tiles:
- Normal
- Glazed
- Polished
Normal porcelain tiles are a matt finish and are used in very high traffic areas, or areas where anti-skip properties are important. They can be made in matt or textured.
Glazed porcelain tiles are the most popular type of porcelain tiles and are made by using a decorative and super hard wearing glaze (which can be matt or gloss) over the porcelain base.
Polished porcelain is simply normal porcelain which has been polished.
Will they be perfectly shiny like a mirror?
No. Mirror is made in a very different way and can be near perfect. Polished tiles (whether they are stone or porcelain) are made by polishing the surface of the tile with very hard grinding stones. As the polishing process opens up microscopic pores on the surface of the tiles, these pores reflect light differently and therefore you can expect that sometimes you will see a variation in shininess appearing as a slight haze on part of the surface of the tiles under certain light conditions. In the same way, slightly varying thicknesses of sealer may be perceived as variations in shininess. These are normal characteristics of polished porcelain and should be expected.
Source: Beaumont
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