Types of Tiles

Are you looking for the best tiles for your home, office, or public places? Then you are in the right place. There are so many types of tiles in the market. Sometimes it may confuse you to buy what kind of tiles for you. Every type of tile has different uses. Certain kinds of tiles are made for specific locations and specific uses. For more information on tiles, you can visit What is tiles?

When you think or hear about tiles, your mind comes up with a 300×300 mm pic of tiles. But now tiles changs a lot. Nowadays, tiles come with 100×100 mm to 1200×2400. So it is essential to have some homework before selecting the tiles.

Tiles are a vast subject. Ceramic tiles of porcelain tiles have a lot of types with specific pros and cons. You might hear about ceramic tiles, porcelain tiles, mosaic tiles, marble tiles, vitrified tiles, digital tiles, wall tiles, slab tiles, glass tiles, glazed vitrified tiles, roofing tiles, metal tiles, and cement tiles. Let’s discuss every kind of tile in depth.

Types of Tiles

Types of tiles
Types of tiles

Most common tiles are using in your home, office, restaurant, shopping mall are mainly categorized into two types of Ceramic tiles and Porcelain tiles (Vitrified tiles).

Ceramic Tiles

Ceramic tiles are widely used in the world for covering and decorating the wall. Ceramic tiles also have two main categories.

  • Ceramic wall tiles
  • Ceramic floor tiles

Ceramic wall tiles are one of the best tiles for the wall. Ceramic wall tiles are widely used in the world. This kind of tiles is used for designing walls and protecting surfaces. Ceramic tiles are mostly being used in low use of surfaces like walls and floors like bathrooms.

Ceramic Wall tiles
Ceramic Wall tiles

Ceramic tiles have not best strength like porcelain tiles or vitrified tiles. Ceramic tiles are lighter in comparison to the porcelain tiles.

Ceramic tiles have made from pure clay, so this kind of tiles does not require high temperature in the manufacturing process.

Ceramic wall tiles have a high water absorption ratio, which is a not good thing. Due to the high water absorption ratio, ceramic wall tiles will soak the water, and water will show it on the tiles’ surface. But don’t worry, waterproof ceramic tiles nowadays are available in the market.

Porcelain Tiles(Vitrified Tiles)

Porcelain tiles are one of the best tiles in the world. These tiles can be installed in your home, office, restaurant, cinema, shopping mall, public washroom, and everywhere.

Porcelain Tiles - Vitrified Tiles
Porcelain Tiles – Vitrified Tiles

Porcelain tiles have excellent strength in comparison to ceramic tiles or other tiles in the market. Porcelain tiles are available in various sizes from 600×600 mm to 1200×2400 mm.

Porcelain tiles are made from clay, but these tiles are made using the process of vitrification. That’s why porcelain tiles are the best. So in India, China, and some of the eastern countries, porcelain tiles are known as Vitrified tiles. Western countries like Italy, Spain, the united state of America, Canada, Mexico, are still pronouncing it as porcelain tiles.

Porcelain Tiles (Vitrified Tiles) can be divided into many sub-categories.

  • Porcelain tiles
  • Soluble Salt Nano Vitrified Tiles (Nano)
  • Double charged Vitrified Tiles (DC)
  • Glazed Vitrified Tiles (GVT)
  • Twin charged Vitrified Tiles
  • Full Body Vitrified Tiles
  • Slab Vitrified Tiles

Marble Tiles

Marble Tiles are very beautiful in looking. Marble tiles are one of the coolest tiles because of its manufacturer from the stone.

Marble tiles - types of tiles
Marble tiles – types of tiles

Marble tiles are very costly in terms of budget because they have a very good texture and color-ton. Marble tile can be installed anywhere in your home, office, commercial place. But people are installing marble tiles in a posh location because it cost you very high.

Marble tiles available in diffrent sizes and diffrent price ranges.