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[Closed] How frustrating is trying to buy tiles on line?

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I want some 30cmx30cm matt white square floor tiles for the bathroom with underfloor heating for about £20 per square metre.

You have the choice of S, M, L, XL tiles and have to guess what each site considers 30x30 to be.

Only found 2 sites where you can filter on tile shape.

Apparently white means any tile with any white in it and no filter available for plain white.

You can't even tell what colour the tiles are or if they have flecks and pattern in from the picture on half the sites because they just show a tiles from the range so quite possibly in totally different colour to what you filtered on.

Grrrr

You CAN filter on bathroom and floor tiles but that is about it.


 
Posted : 09/02/2021 4:55 pm
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Check the filters compared to the results.


 
Posted : 09/02/2021 5:01 pm
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You shouldn't have used the price filter. Plain white tiles are at the cheap end of the range.

https://www.tilemountain.co.uk/p/chess-white-floor-tile.html

30cm is quite small for a floor tile - unless your floor is perfectly flat you might notice any imperfections. #learnedthehardway


 
Posted : 09/02/2021 5:05 pm
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30cm is what I am replacing. It is a small downstairs toilet about 1.6m x 1.7m so if the tiles get much bigger they look strange. I was looking at 45cm ones but with the toilet and basin that would give me about three whole tiles on the complete floor, the tiles do go under the toilet but only 3 whole tiles would be visible. I put the self levelling down yesterday so hoping smaller tiles won;t be an issue.

I saw the tiles you linked to but I was hoping for something 8-10mm thick, preferably 10 for the correct floor height and resistance to cracking when 'someone' drops things on them


 
Posted : 09/02/2021 5:12 pm
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Last time I bought tiles online I had them delivered and everything looked fine, you could see the top tile was in one piece in its box. Upon opening the box properly a week later to do the job, I found every single tile had the edge broken off slightly that was only visible when fully unboxed. I was lucky that they sent a new unbroken box and the broken ones could be used for corners etc.


 
Posted : 09/02/2021 5:27 pm
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Okay, I have accepted that to get thicker tiles I need to size up to 45cm square but I swear Google is taking the piss and hiding any relevant results.

Are plain white square tiles terribly unfashionable or something?

I don;t want marble effect high gloss tiles are the stains in the tiles just look like stains on the tiles. Why do I want to build a dirty looking floor. White please where white actually means plain white, for the love of god, I am thinking of painting the floor to look like tiles.


 
Posted : 09/02/2021 5:40 pm
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My only advice would be to avoid Al Murad Tiles.

I placed an online order at the beginning of November. They took the money from my account but I did not receive the tiles or any order confirmation. I telephoned them numerous times and each time was promised that someone would call me back which never happened. Emails went unanswered.

I was eventually refunded 2 weeks ago but only after I lost my rag and went to my local store kicking up a loud fuss.


 
Posted : 09/02/2021 6:10 pm
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Try ctdtiles.co.uk - you can filter by colour, type, size etc.


 
Posted : 09/02/2021 7:00 pm
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I searched high and low for tiles like you mention - I wanted to do the ground floor of a Victorian flat with a chequerboard pattern - and ended up finding plain black and white about a foot square in B&Q's cheapest selection.

https://www.diy.com/departments/monzie-white-satin-plain-ceramic-wall-floor-tile-pack-of-13-l-333mm-w-333mm/3663602608011_BQ.prd


 
Posted : 09/02/2021 7:50 pm