Clearance concrete look tiles
The flat, mineral, slightly mottled look of polished concrete, in porcelain. Popular for open living areas and increasingly for bathrooms, where it gives a seamless look without a poured floor.
14 lines available right now · every one finite · rarely restocked
Sonic Ice Lappato 300x800mm
366.7 m² left · while it lasts
Sonic Silver Lappato 300x800mm
375.6 m² left · while it lasts
Elegance Onyx Lappato 300x800mm
235.4 m² left · while it lasts
Elegance Silver Lappato 300x800mm
222 m² left · while it lasts
Elegance Pearl Lappato 300x800mm
329.3 m² left · while it lasts
Paradigm Tortora Lappato 300x600mm
252 m² left · while it lasts
Paradigm White Matt 450x900mm
305 m² left · while it lasts
Paradigm White Lappato Porcelain 450x900mm
69 m² left · while it lasts
Toscana Slate Lappato 450x450mm
441.2 m² left · while it lasts
Cemento Taupe Lappato 296x596mm
267.8 m² left · while it lasts
Cemento Grey Lappato 296x596mm
790.1 m² left · while it lasts
Chicago Anthracite Grit 20mm Paver 600x600mm
1,235.5 m² left · while it lasts
Chicago Grigio Grit 20mm Paver 600x600mm
1,378.1 m² left · while it lasts
Chicago Silver Grit 20mm Paver 600x600mm
750.2 m² left · while it lasts
Buying concrete look tiles: what actually matters
Large format concrete look needs a flatter floor than you think
Concrete look tiles are usually bought in large formats, 600x600 and up, because the whole point is minimal joints. Large tiles are unforgiving: any dip or hump in the substrate that a small tile would ride over becomes a lipped edge. Expect the floor to need levelling, and expect that to be a real line in the quote. Ask your tiler to check the substrate before you order, not after, because on clearance stock you cannot add two boxes later if the levelling changes the lay.
Matt and honed finishes show footprints and mopping marks
The finish that looks best in a photograph, a soft honed matt, is also the one that shows every bare footprint and every streak from a mop that was too wet. It is not a fault and it does not stain, it just needs a different cleaning habit: a barely damp mop and a pH-neutral cleaner. Worth knowing before you put it in a busy kitchen.
How much to over-order, and why 10% is usually the wrong number
Ten per cent is the figure everyone repeats and it is only right for a simple rectangular room laid square with a large format tile. Straight lay in a plain room runs closer to 7 to 10%. A diagonal or herringbone lay wastes far more on the perimeter cuts, so 15 to 20% is realistic. Small formats and mosaics waste more again as a proportion. Rooms with lots of edges, a hob, a niche, a stepped floor, push it up. Because this stock does not come back, round up to the next whole box and then add one more: a spare box costs less than the tile and stops a single cracked tile in year three becoming a whole new floor.
Why this stock is cheap, and what the actual catch is
Clearance tiles are not seconds. Everything here is first grade. It is cheap because it is finite: a line an importer is clearing, a colourway a manufacturer has stopped making, or the tail of a container that nobody wants to keep warehousing. The catch is not quality, it is that you cannot get more. On a normal tile you can go back in six weeks for another two boxes. Here you cannot, so the quantity you order is the quantity you will ever have.