Most Ideal Tile Floorings For An Indian Household

 

Most Ideal Tile Floorings For An Indian Household

Floor tiles sustain great qualities and comes with a plethora of options . They are easy to install, easy to clean, durable, cost effective and are very low maintenance.

All these properties makes it a popular opinion among hardwood floors, conventional marbles and natural stone slabs.

But the question which still arises is with so many varities of tiles such as porcelain, stone and vitrified tiles, which ones are the best suited for your home?



1) Ceramic tiles -Ceramic tiles are made up of natural clay and minerals mixed with water , colour pigments and chemical additives. Due to which ceramic tiles are quite cheap, cost effective and readily available making it a prior flooring material for Indian households. The only main drawback of ceramic tiles is that it is fragile and quite prone to chipping and cracking.



2) Porcelain tiles - Porcelain tiles are made up of finer clay and extra minerals than ceramic tiles, baked at higher temperature which makes them dense, less porous and stronger than ceramic tiles. Porcelain tiles being stronger than ceramic tiles are prefered in high traffic areas as they are resistant to chipping, scratching and stains.



3) Vitrified tiles - Vitrified tiles are manufactured by the process of vitrification at higher temperatures that lead to form a glass like shiny material. Vitrified tiles are a popular flooring material in Indian households because of their superlative properties like strength, nature, non porous , stain resistance and replication of natural marbel.



4) Terrazzo tiles -Manufacturing of terrazzo tiles include the process of exposing the stone or marble to the concrete surface and then polishing them until smooth. Due to this Terrazzo tile flooring surface take years to worn out and could be refinished and polished to look like new and it has a unique speckled look which is designed to last a lifetime.



5) Stone tiles - The last option yet the most conventional one. Stone tiles add texture, colour, warmth with their unique stone patterns that impart richness and elegance to the space. They are made of natural materials like sandstone, granite, marble , travertine and slate which make them explicit in superlative properties of strength, durability and resistance to stain and chipping.

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