Choosing Your Tile
Ceramic Tile
- Generally made from red or white clay fired in a kiln
- Almost always finished with a durable glaze which carries the color and pattern
- Wall tile and floor tile applications
- Softer and easier to cut than porcelain
- Suitable for very light to moderate traffic
- Less frost resistant
- Prone to wear and chipping more than porcelain tile
Porcelain Tile
- Generally made by the dust pressed method from porcelain clays
- Dense, impervious, fine grained and smooth, with a sharply formed face
- Frost resistant or frost-proof
- Harder and more damage resistant
- Suitable for light traffic to the heaviest residential and light commercial traffic
- Carry color and pattern through the entire thickness of the tile
- Virtually impervious to wear
- Suitable for any application from residential to the highest traffic commercial or industrial applications
- Porcelain tiles are available in matte, unglazed or a high polished finish
Brands of Tile We Carry
