Ceramic v's Porcelain

get your wallet out

 

I'll take some of that action.....sell ceramic and buy porcelain, now who'll start me with the spread....

My mispent youth is shining through.....

 

If you buy crockery, which is the more expensive - China or pot ("stoneware")

Porcelain tiles are fully vitrified & made from same sort of clays as china. Don't need glazing.

Ceramic tiles are similar to pot. Need glazing for a glazed finish.

 

Sorry - you asked which is the harder, not the more expensive.

Porcelain.

 

was asked to tile an exterior swim pool and pool side area, the customer told me that he wanted to use porcelin rather than ceramic.my first thoughts were "kin ell" this guy must be minted,my thoughts of porcelin were these tiny figureenes that my mother warned me time and time again if we visited friends not to touch coz they cost a "fortune". having looked into it ,yes it was a little more expensive to by but..... porcelin will not crack in frost unlike ceramics and apparantly there are put into the kilns and fired twice to achive this.(just thought i'd share this bit of useless info with you)

 

You can find reasonably priced porcelain tiles here. He imports from Turkey.

enver@osman1591.fsnet.co.uk

They have offices & showroom in Ipswich.

 

Bit late with the post but hear goes, porcelain tiles are the same colour all the way through so if you do manage to chip one you will hardly notice it, unlike ceramics, you chip a ceramic and the biscuit starts to wink at you from underneath!!!!!

 

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The cost to fit isn't horrendous, it's probably 10% more than ceramics.

And all the diamond coated drill bits are freely available direct from the producer at a fraction of the price of the site mentioned above:-

http://www.richontools.com/

365drills? If you want to see the horrendous cost of something, compare their prices to Richon Tools.

 

I find that I generally use an adhesive suitable for Porcelain whether using Porcelain or Ceramics, so the only extra cost is drilling the tiles which is maybe £10 maximum per Bathroom.

Even if I was using adhesive specific to the tile product it still doesn't break the bank, maybe £20 extra per 20sq/m or so.

Cutting Porcelain is marginally harder than Ceramic but certainly not significantly slower.

 

Perhaps they're trying to justify there own extortionate costs
£20 a hole (in tiles) he must be avin a laugh. You can buy a ready made hole in prague for well under £20 & it's been well drilled

 

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How much of a share do you have in that company then?

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