How to tell the quality of the tiles?

When you are building your house, you will need to choose the tiles by yourselves. While there are many suppliers in the market, each supplier has different design, quality grade, size and quality. How to tell the quality of the tiles and how to choose the suitable design & size? Let’s show you something today.

#1 Quality Grade

There are used to be two quality grades. One is AAA grade and one is B grade.The difference between these two grades are as below.

B grade used to have some broken selvedge or the flatness is not 100% perfect, or there is some distortion on the shape. While AAA grade everything is perfect, without any flaw. So you can ask the seller or check if there is any mark on the tiles.

The most common sales tiles is AAA grade. B grade is normally discount tiles. So AAA grade is suggested for your own house.

#2 Flatness

Flatness is an important factor of the quality of the tiles. If you are in a tiles shop, since there is no professional test machine, so you can simply check the flatness by an easy test as below.

First to check by eye, you can stack two tiles face to face together, then check if there is any gap between the two tiles. The smallest of the gap then the better. Then you take a A4 paper and see if it can be put into the gap. If not then the flatness is good enough.

#3 Water absorption

Water absorption is also an important factor but easy to check by yourself. First to put 2 tiles together, the back side is up. Then drop some water on the tiles. If the tile spread quickly, then it means the water adsorption rate is high. Then its not very good tiles for sitting room or bedroom. The tiles with high water absorption rate can be used for toilet, bathroom etc.

#4 Sound

There is one more easy way to test the quality. Knock the tiles and listen to the sound. If you knock the tiles and it sound clear and loud then its good quality. If the tiles sound muffled then its not very good quality. The tiles with clear sound then it means the porcelain rate is very high and its good quality.

How to choose the sizes

If you have a big house and if your sitting room is bigger than 40SQM, then you can choose size 80x80cm or even bigger. As big size will have the high-end feeling. For bedroom its suggested to choose sizes for 60x60cm, or 15x60cm, 15x80cm wood finish tiles. For kitchen & toilet its suggested to choose sizes 30x60cm for wall tiles and 30x30cm for floor tiles.

Above are some simple ways to test the quality of the tiles. It might help you have better idea on how to tell the quality of the tiles. Its very important for you to get the good & right tiles for your own house.

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