Porcelain wood grain tiles

kah22

I'm in the process of building a new kitchen and all the major decisions, bar the floor, has been taken.

Anyone on the board installed porcelain wood grain tiles in their kitchen? I was looking at them today in two showrooms and they did look impressive.

Up until now I had been thinking of enginered wood but there is still that little doubt in the back of my mind: wood in an Irish kitchen where there wil be quite a bit of footfall, is it really sensible Now that I've seen the porcelain wood grain tiles I think I might have a compromise between my wooden floor and an ordinary porcelain floor.

So has anyone first hand experience of porcelain wood grain tiles in a kitchen.

Kevin

agusta

Nice job alright.One thing to watch out for.Check the tiles you are buying for a bow in the tile.You can do this by sighting the tile or by putting a straight edge on the back of the tile.
IF your doing them in brick effect you dont want the bow in the tile to be much more than a millimeter or it can cause lippage .
Bowing can be described as a slight curve in the tile where the surface is not perfectly flat.Bowing is a characteristic of large format rectangle tiles

kah22

agusta wrote: »

Nice job alright.One thing to watch out for.Check the tiles you are buying for a bow in the tile.You can do this by sighting the tile or by putting a straight edge on the back of the tile.
IF your doing them in brick effect you dont want the bow in the tile to be much more than a millimeter or it can cause lippage .
Bowing can be described as a slight curve in the tile where the surface is not perfectly flat.Bowing is a characteristic of large format rectangle tiles

If I go down that route it won't be brick effect more something like this http://www.armatile.com/productdetails/3770/natura-wood-pine-143x90cm.aspx?expandable=0.

Do you mean check every tile or just a sample from each box?

Sorry my iPad keeps crashing if I try to link the url to a particular word

Kevin

agusta

Nice floor.I think just check one or two tiles from the batch your getting.You will get a fairly good idea from that.Also your floor has to be very good for flatness.

on_my_oe

Do you mean like this?

We installed these in our kitchen and downstairs WC. I really like, better than I like the dark 'engineered wood' we installed in the hallway and living room.

We are in a ground floor duplex apartment, and apart from adding 'pads' to the bottom of the chairs in the kitchen, its been great, and would choose them again