Tile Flooring

Vinyl composition tile (vct) is a mix of thermoplastic binder, fillers and pigments. Vinyl Composition tiles offer moderate pricing, durability, easy installation, and assorted colors and patterns. They effectively resist scuffs, burns, dents, and grease, but may require occasional heavy duty cleaning because the embossing can trap dirt.

Vinyl Composition Tile Floors

From the sophisticated beauty of granite and marble tile flooring to the durability of vinyl composition tile and solid vinyl tile, there's a tile floor to suit every taste, budget, furnishings style, and palette.

Tile Floor Sampler

Resilient tile flooring is easy to install because it can be put down over almost any other type of flooring and requires little preparation. Resilient tile flooring is available in patterns that imitate ceramic or natural stone and come in various sizes, although twelve inches square is the most common. Some resilient tile floors come with an adhesive backing and can simply be pressed into place. Resilient tile is relatively inexpensive, durable, easy to keep clean, waterproof, and stain resistant. Other types of synthetic hard-surface tile flooring include asphalt and rubber tile.

Resilient Tile Flooring

Natural tile flooring, whether ceramic or stone, comes in many different forms, almost all of them hard-wearing and impervious to water, mud, and grease. All types of natural tile flooring connote luxury (because of its high cost compared to other types of flooring) and permanence, so you may want to restrict its use to small areas, such as entryways. While stone tile flooring (granite tile, marble tile, or slate tile) is often expensive, highly decorative ceramic tile, especially if it is hand-painted, can be quite pricey too. Tile flooring has the possible disadvantages of being cold underfoot (which actually can be an advantage in warm climates) and can be noisy under hard-soled shoes because the tile itself is very hard. Things dropped on are more likely to break, and in the bathroom, tile flooring can be slippery. One final point: ceramic tile is heavy, so make sure that the subflooring in the area where you plan to install it is strong enough to bear its weight.

Natural Tile Flooring

Tile Floors have been a popular decorating material for quite some time, plenty of time in fact, for tile to build an impressive record of durability and versatility. And tile flooring takes to customized designs, unique glazes, and special effects with ease. One way to create an eye-catching kitchen tile floor or bathroom tile floor is to use subtle gradations in color across the entire floor.  Or, you can simply frame the room's perimeter with floor tiles in a different hue or pattern from the tiles used on the rest of the floor. You can create your own "tile rug" or one-of-a-kind tile floor by taking ordinary stock tiles and setting them in an original pattern. If you have a tile floor for the bathroom or kitchen, set it off with a border of tile insets in the flooring. You can also design a floor that combines ceramic tile with other tiles, such as granite and marble, or wood tile.

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