A Tale of Two Tiles

When you’re talking about tile you’re talking about one of the most durable, easy to maintain and long lasting flooring options you can buy.

Some countries that we go to would be like Italy. Italy’s known for their forward thinking designs and their sizes and their fashion.

We go to Spain, we’ll also will travel to South America, Brazil and Mexico, Turkey or whatever the country offers us the best price and the best quality product.

What we’re looking at here is a ceramic tile and a porcelain tile. From a distance it’s very hard to tell the difference between the two.

You start with clays and natural dirt from the earth, and you form them into the shape that you want them. In this case a 12 inch by 24 inch tile. And then you put the decoration on the front of it.

In this case a nice vein cut travertine, in this case a classic stone look.

Then you put it into a 100 meter long kiln and cook these up to 2000 degrees.

So what we’re looking at here is a porcelain tile.

And a porcelain tile is more durable than ceramic because they use finer clays, they pack it at a higher pressure and it’s cooked at a higher temperature in the kiln.

It allows you to put it in higher traffic areas in your home, it allows you to put it in a commercial environment, in a restaurant or a business.

It also allows you to put it outside. The porcelain tile will not absorb as much water so you’re not worrying about the water inside the tile expanding the tile and cracking when a freeze comes over.

There’s lots of advantages that ceramic tile offers you especially inside the home.

Ceramic tile comes in all sorts of shapes and sizes. Inside the home it’s a durable product. It could be used on the walls or on the floor, and as you can see,

some incredible amount of detail and depth. It is easy to cut and it’s easy to install. It’s also maintenance free.

One of these is a tile and one of these is actually a natural stone, can you tell the difference?

The difference is that the one on the right is a natural stone and the one on the left is a tile.

The one on the left is created with ink-jet technology. Great looks, great designs, sharper image, very tamil repeated patterns at a great price.

White body rectified tile.

White body rectified tile offers the benefits of porcelain and ceramic in a great value.

What you have here is a press tile. Press tile gives you a rounded edge, and a rectified tile means that the tile’s been cut all four sides, minimal to no grout lines.

Both in your home will work great and both will look beautiful once they’re installed.

So we hope we’ve been able to answer your most common questions about the differences between ceramic and porcelain tile.

We also hope that we were able to give you some great ideas and inspire you in your next project.

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