Clearance feature and splashback tiles
Small areas where a distinctive tile earns its place. This is the best possible use of clearance stock: a splashback is a few square metres, so a finite lot covers it comfortably and the saving buys you a tile you could not otherwise justify.
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Clearance stock moves and this one has sold through. New lines land weekly, and the guidance below still applies whenever it comes back.
Buying feature and splashback tiles: what actually matters
A feature area is where a finite lot stops being a limitation
The whole difficulty with clearance stock is that you cannot get more. On a 40 m² floor that is a real risk. On a 3 m² splashback it is close to irrelevant: buy the lot, use what you need, keep the rest. It also means the interesting, small-run, expensive-looking tiles that only ever exist in small quantities become genuinely available.
Measure to the underside of the cupboards, then check the powerpoints
A kitchen splashback is usually a narrow band, and the cut around each powerpoint and switch wastes a surprising amount on a patterned tile where the cut has to land somewhere sensible in the pattern. On a small area the percentage wastage is much higher than on a floor. Take the real measurement including the return behind the cooktop, then add a full extra box.
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.