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Where to buy small quantities of wall tiles

  • 09-09-2012 10:08PM
    #1
    IsThisOneFree
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 254 ✭✭


    Not too sure where is the best place to post this, but I'll start off here and maybe somebody can guide me ? I need a few additional wall tiles for my Mum's bathroom which was tiled about 5 years ago. The place we originally bought them from doesn't seem to exist anymore unfortunately. Does anybody have any ideas where I can buy end of life tiles and in small quantities (I only need 3 really). Fortunately the tiles are just plain white (gloss) but are 8x14 inches - so worst case scenario I can just buy some white tiles of a similar size, but where can I get them in such small quantities ?

    I'm living in Dublin but my Mum is in the west (Mayo/Galway) so ideally I'm looking in either of these locations.

    Thanks in advance
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  • #2
    Joey the lips
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,262 ✭✭✭✭Joey the lips


    Call into tile shops. Sounds daft but they sell them by the yard to the nearest box. Alternatively call into B&Q


  • #3
    IsThisOneFree
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 254 ✭✭IsThisOneFree


    never knew that, I'll try some of the tile shops around. Thanks for the reply


  • #4
    suite16
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 31 ✭suite16


    IsThisOneFree wrote: »
    Not too sure where is the best place to post this, but I'll start off here and maybe somebody can guide me ? I need a few additional wall tiles for my Mum's bathroom which was tiled about 5 years ago. The place we originally bought them from doesn't seem to exist anymore unfortunately. Does anybody have any ideas where I can buy end of life tiles and in small quantities (I only need 3 really). Fortunately the tiles are just plain white (gloss) but are 8x14 inches - so worst case scenario I can just buy some white tiles of a similar size, but where can I get them in such small quantities ?

    I'm living in Dublin but my Mum is in the west (Mayo/Galway) so ideally I'm looking in either of these locations.

    Thanks in advance

    B&Q and Homebase sell tiles. You'd get plain white ones for about €10/12 a sq m.


  • #5
    IsThisOneFree
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 254 ✭✭IsThisOneFree


    hmm .... thought I'd already replied to this ! Anyway, thanks very much for the reply, I'll try some local tile shops and see how I get on


  • #6
    IsThisOneFree
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 254 ✭✭IsThisOneFree


    arggh !! Looks like I had replied !! Thanks for the extra info suite16 - don't suppose you know what dimensions those tiles would be in ? I don't know if the ones I'm looking for would be considered a common size or not .....


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  • #7
    suite16
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 31 ✭suite16


    IsThisOneFree wrote: »
    arggh !! Looks like I had replied !! Thanks for the extra info suite16 - don't suppose you know what dimensions those tiles would be in ? I don't know if the ones I'm looking for would be considered a common size or not .....

    You'll be lucky to find an exact match, but it's certainly worth trying.

    Here is a link to all of the white tiles in B&Q.

    If there's nothing good there, visit a few local tile shops with your dimensions and ideally a sample of one of the existing tiles for comparison.

    Personally, unless you can find an exact match, or a contrasting tile that looks nice with the existing tiles, I'd be inclined to remove the existing tiles and start again.


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