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Porcelain The Ultimate Ceramic Tile
Porcelain tile is a tile that is generally made by the dust pressed method from Kaolin clays which result in a tile that is dense, impervious, fine grained and smooth, with a sharply formed face. Porcelain tiles usually have a much lower water absorption rate (less than 0.5%) than non-porcelain tiles making them frost resistant or frost-proof. Porcelain tiles are much harder 6 - 8 on the MOHS scale of hardness which accounts for them being much more wear and damage resistant than non-porcelain ceramic tiles, thus making them suitable for any application from light traffic to the heaviest residential and light commercial traffic. Full body porcelain tiles carry the colour and pattern through the entire thickness of the tile making them virtually impervious to wear and are suitable for any application from residential to the highest traffic commercial or industrial applications. Porcelain tiles are available in matte, unglazed or a highly polished finish.
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Not all porcelain is equal
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For the consumer Caution should be noted especially with many Porcelain tiles coming from all over the world especially Asia, where as the origional Italian Porcelain set the standards in quality of Clays used and firing technology including quality control. This resulted in a Porcelain that was very expensive.
Other manufacturers attempts to produce cheaper Porcelain products to meet varying different markets has resulted in some cases a poorer quality material that has problems due to flaws in the tile for example the origional European standard UNE EN ISO10. 545-3 sets water absorption at less than 0.5% in addition dimensional tollerances should be very stringent, any deviation from meeting the standards set will result in a tile that will be more succeptable to staining Scratching as well as cracks that can not be seen by the eye.
In general Problems of maintenance for polished tiles are exposed pores, cracks, scratches etc where as problems for unpolished are mostly surface texture trapping dirt
Cleaning and maintenance regime is neccesary and neutral ph cleaners used scrub brush and pads, and residues removed. Sealing is sometimes necessary on some polished Porcelain depending upon absorption a test should always be carried out after fixing or cleaning, for other unpolished Porcelain generally it will not be recommended for reasons reasons of non penetration. |
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- DIAMOND GRINDING
- HONING AND POLISHING
- PROTECTION & SEALING
- GROUT CLEANING & RE-GROUTING
- STAIN REMOVAL
- REPAIRS & WORKTOPS REPAIRS
- CRYSTALLIZATION & MAINTENANCE
- LIPPAGE REMOVAL
- ANY STONE RESTORATION WORK
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